Project Manager

**Job Title**
- Project Manager - Contract

**Vacancy No**
- VN6249

**Work Location**
- Winnipeg, MB

**Job Details**

**Position: Project Manager**

**About Compugen**
Compugen is one of Canada's largest privately-owned Information Technology (IT) Solution Providers. We help customers design, acquire, integrate and operate technology. Our mission is to help organizations realize new possibilities. Every day, our dedicated staff across North America focus on providing extraordinary customer service and support experiences to private and public sector organizations. We combine breadth of skill, depth of expertise, and commitment to operational excellence at scale to deliver exceptional, customer-focused experiences.
- If you are driven to make a difference, relentlessly curious and collaborative at the core, we’d love to talk to you. Join us and help us make a difference.**We require a Project Manager for Operational Readiness Stream Level projects.**

**Requirements**:

- Manage the project during the initiation, design, development, implementation, and operations start-up by ensuring that resources are made available and that the project is developed and is fully operational within previously agreed time, cost and performance parameters.
- Formulate statements of problems; establishes procedures for the development and implementation of significant, new or modified project elements to solve these problems, and obtains approval thereof.
- Define and document the objectives for the project; determine budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities and terms of reference for the project team.
- Report progress of the project on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the life cycle.
- Meet stakeholders and other project managers and state problems in a form capable of being solved.
- Prepare plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analyzing or displaying problems; work with a variety of project management tools.
- Ensure all deliverables and milestones are completed as planned.
- Manage project change requests effectively through the approved change management process
- Develop and support project baseline schedules.
- Develop and maintain work breakdown structures.
- Produce appropriate reports and identify scheduling and/or dependency issues.
- Conduct and provide critical path analysis.
- Assist in schedule co-ordination efforts with internal and external project stakeholders.
- Project sign-off.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in delivering enterprise level projects that result in corporate / cultural change
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with managing large vendor delivery during project execution
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing the full project management lifecycle with projects, including managing large vendor delivery during project execution including Migration and Integration of legacy data streams.
- PMP Certification
- Ability to manage complex project issues and risks
- Ability to manage project financials, and change management
- Familiarity with business cases and benefit realization
- Experience working with Organizational Change Management to introduce corporate level changes
- Proven experience in team building and negotiating deliverables and timelines with the project team
- Ability to translate team inputs and recommendations into an efficient project delivery plan
- Ability to work with / negotiating with multiple stakeholders producing positive outcomes that would minimize delivery risk and/or issues
- Must have the ability to work through complex issues to achieve a successful out come
- Ability to adjust to the corporate delivery processes
- Experience working with key stakeholders in project charter development
- Ability to manage multiple ongoing streams in parallel
- Proven experience managing complex projects
- Experience working on COTS related projects is an asset
- Experience working on a multiple stream projects with multiple vendor interdependencies is an asset
- Microsoft Project Online experience is an asset
- Understanding of both Waterfall and Agile methodologies is required
- Experience in Insurance and/or licensing is an asset
- Willing to adapt to and follow the project management processes utilized within client’s environment

**Role Specific Requirements**
- 5+ years’ experience leading change management initiatives
- PROSCI, ACMP, or some other type of change management certification a strong asset
- Need to be familiar working in a project environment and familiar with agile methodology
- Experience with transformation change in a large organization
- Demonstrated analysis and business acumen skills
- Experience with facilitation and coaching

**Assets**:

- Experience with Knowledge Management, Communications and Training
- Experience on large agile IT projects

**Other Skills**:

- Strong communication skills, written and verbal
- High emotional intelligence
- Strong relationship, ne