Project Manager

Investia is looking for a Project Manager to join its IT Solution Delivery and Digital Experience team. In this role, you will be playing a critical role in managing operational activities and enabling innovation by working with business partners and leading a technical team. We are looking for a dynamic individual with strong communication and organizational skills that is comfortable managing multiple priorities and eager to help us transform our systems and tools for the future.

**Responsibilities**:

- Carry out all project management activities for assigned mandates, including those contributing to strategic corporate objectives and requiring increased leadership and political acumen.
- Communicate directly with business partners and senior executive stakeholders across multiple lines of businesses related to both operational activities and strategic initiatives.
- Contribute to the organization of the delivery teams required to achieve set objectives, ensure compliance with security and company policies.
- Lead a multi-disciplinary technical team to ensure effective planning in place to deliver on critical activities supporting regular business activities and key initiatives aimed at evolving back-office systems.
- Assist stakeholders in maintaining the focus on high business value priorities, including the management of service agreements with external suppliers.
- Adapt delivery to multi-modal delivery contexts (i.e., with agile or Lean-Agile transformation teams, with or without external vendors), distinguishing oneself through adaptability and assertive enthusiasm.
- Organize and facilitate planning, follow-up and feedback events that involve multiple levels of management, sectors, sites, suppliers as well as internal and external resources.
- Contribute to and help teams manage risks, issues and blockages surrounding deliveries, by anticipating and proactively addressing them, and then define the necessary action plans.
- Share global progress reports regularly and transparently (assumptions, deliverables, timelines, costs, quality, risks, issues, major roadblocks, progress and achievement of objectives and benefits) demonstrating business acumen and a sense of urgency, when appropriate.
- Establish resource and cost forecasts including input from experts, including those in change management, when required.

**Target profile**:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, administration or any other relevant training or work experience deemed equivalent.
- Minimum of eight (8) years experience as an information technology project manager.
- Strong negotiation and conflict management skills and proven leadership.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and critical thinking skills that are solution oriented and continuous improvement oriented.
- Knowledge and experience in the use of a planning and tracking tool.
- Excellent knowledge of French, both oral and written.
- Excellent knowledge of English, both oral and written. You will be working with unilingual English-speaking partners and colleagues.

**Assets**
- Certifications:

- PMI-ACP o Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) or higher
- (P: SAFe® RTE or PMP)

**Company Overview**:
**About**:
iA Financial Group is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 50,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.

With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.

At iA, we’re invested in you.

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**:
At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.

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