Product Manager, Information Technology

**Job Type**:
Employee

**Duration in Months** **(for fixed-term jobs):
12

**Job Family**:
Application Development

**# of Open Positions**:
1

**Faculty/Service - Department**:
Infrastructure & System

**Campus**:
Main Campus

**Union Affiliation**:
UOITP

**Date Posted**:
October 28, 2024

**Applications must be received **BEFORE**:
November 08, 2024

**Hours per week**:
35

**Salary Grade**:
UOITP Grade 12

**Salary Range**:
$101,788.00 - $126,559.00

About Information Technology:
Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services. This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

In a nutshell: working here is challenging and rewarding. It’ll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education. We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle. And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.

**Position Purpose**

**In this role, your responsibilities will include**:

- ** Project Planning and Business Case Preparation**:Works with client manager to identify business and strategic needs, as well as opportunities for IT solutions to be applied to solve business problems and increase administrative efficiency and lower administrative costs, improve service, etc. Evaluates the technical, economic, and operational feasibility of different approaches to solving business problems. Develops project proposals, analyzes and documents risks, and risk mitigation strategies. Ensures licensing management, provisioning and liaisons with vendors.
- ** Project Management**: Organizes inter-disciplinary project teams according to the needs of each project, leads and supervises their work. Negotiates with stakeholders to ensure that project teams are appropriately staffed. Ensures that appropriate controls and progress reports are prepared regularly. Ensures that risks are monitored and that risk mitigation strategies are implemented when necessary.
- ** Business Process Analysis and Design**:Design complete solutions to complex business problems using expert knowledge of technology, business process analysis techniques, business process re-engineering, workflow analysis, etc.

**What you will bring**:

- University degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS) or a related field.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in project planning, risk analysis and project management in a complex and diverse IT environment.
- Knowledge of business processes and management systems that are used by the University and/or the designated client group.
- Knowledge of the University’s and/or clients business operations and priorities to provide the appropriate advice and support.
- Knowledge and experience in the use of software development methodologies, tools and techniques and the software development life cycle.
- Experience in managing multiple, cross-functional systems development projects
- Experience in creating estimates, in leading project planning, risk analysis and in formulating risk mitigation strategies.
- Ability to negotiate and influence clients in accepting solutions that align both the strategic goals of the University and short and long-term client requirements.
- Ability to proactively keep abreast of new/emerging technologies.
- Bilingualism - French and English (spoken and written).

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**Key Competencies at uOttawa**:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
**Planning**:Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
**Initiative**:Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
**Client Service Orientation**:Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
**Teamwork and Cooperation**:Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

**Note: if this is a union position**:The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union