Project Manager

Novipro is looking for a **Project Manager**. This is a **12 month** renewable mandate for one of our well-known clients in the **banking** industry. This mandate is in hybrid mode, a minimum of 2 days in the office in downtown Montreal. Are you interested?

Missions
- Oversees/Manages/Leads project execution, integration and implementation
- Coordinates activities, resources, and information sharing ensuring the delivery of projects and key milestones
- Monitors, tracks and reports on project's progress to stakeholders and other governance bodies
- Proactively manages performance, cost, scope, schedule, quality and other key project management activities
- Identifies, manages, and escalates risks, issues and change requests to appropriate decision makers
- Develops, manages and maintains the project work plan, schedule, risk / issues, and documentation utilizing project management tools and techniques
- Makes certain that clients' needs are met as projects evolve
- Act as the point of contact and communicate project status and Key Performance Indicators adequately to all participants and stakeholders
- Successfully manages projects numerous resources - including those functionally aligned as part of the project and organizationally aligned resources
- Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams in order to deliver the intended project solution
- Oversees periodic weekend project execution activities - every 2-4 weeks
- Manage work stream and governance meetings, maintains meeting minutes and action item follow ups
- 3-6 Month engagement, with a possibility of extension

Profile
- experience as an IT project manager in a broad range of infrastructure related projects, including network, server and database solution deployments
- Self-starter, proactive and works well with diverse groups
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences, as appropriate
- Comfortable facilitating and presenting to groups
- MS Project, Outlook, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint advanced experience required
- Possesses professional knowledge of product / function and applies knowledge to project activities to enhance delivery
- Deeply understands all project management disciplines and their key activities, processes, and artifacts
- Understands the relationship of their project(s) to the overall program
- Leadership - Ability to work with team members to set and achieve development goals and provide constructive feedback throughout the project lifecycle
- Knowledge of a formal project management methodology (e.g. PMI, Prince 2, etc.) and/or the Technology SDLC/PDLC Process, project planning tools (eg. MS Project) and project change strategies
- General Project Management - Experience creating appropriate project documentation, balances stakeholder needs, and effectively negotiates tradeoffs between scope, schedule, and budget; Balances needs of multiple stakeholders. Gains buy-in from groups who may be resistant to change
- Schedule Management - Understanding of how to create, manage and understand impacts to project scope, constraints, and schedule. Manages projects according to work plan. Performs critical path analysis
- Cost Management - Experience developing and routinely reassessing project budgets to account for variances and ensures accuracy. Creates budget reports to compare actual with forecasted costs
- Communication Management - Experience creating performance and status reports for relevant stakeholders
- Risk & Issue Management - Understands how to develop and manage project risk and issue management plans; Analyzes risks by probability and severity to assess their impact on project delivery; Implements solutions to mitigate risk threats
- Resource Management - Understands how to develop project organization chart and governance structures. Defines roles and responsibilities of team members
- Quality Management - Experience defining processes and standards around governance, communication, and quality. Develops deliverable acceptance plans and criteria
- Change Request Management - Ability to identify and develop strategy for changes in scope, schedule, and cost. Develops strategic rationale for change including costs, benefits, tradeoffs, etc.
- Implementation and Transition Management - Ability to create transition plans, identify lessons learned and applies the lessons learned to future projects