Sr Project Manager

Permanent Full Time

Reporting to the Delivery Manager, the Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in providing delivery excellence and leadership on projects within the Corporate Technology Portfolio. Working front line with our business partners, vendors, and other stakeholders, this role is highly visible and collaborative to deliver initiatives on time and within budget. This is a senior professional role that combines strong Project Management, Business Relationship and Change Management skills.

What you will do:

• Accountable for ensuring the successful end to end delivery of projects within our internal IT application and project delivery frameworks.
• Sets up projects, resources, financials and schedule, proactively flagging variances that may jeopardize delivery.
• Works effectively with limited supervision across external parties, cross-organization stakeholders and business partners to keep the project team on track, motivated and engaged.
• Develops detailed project plans, stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, cut over plans and financial summaries.
• Work with third party vendors to develop integrated project plans, ensuring vendors meet deliverables on schedule and budget.
• Proactively works to resolve issues and remove roadblocks across project teams, proactively identifies potential issues before negatively impacting the project.
• Confidently leads and facilitates project meetings/scrums ensuring a high degree of communication and documentation are provided; meeting materials, distribute meeting minutes, update program scorecards.
• Develops presentations and dashboards for a variety of audiences (Executives, Operations, Core Teams, etc.) to show schedule, financials and resources consumption (e.g. Burn Rates, slippage, etc.)
• Conducts post implementation reviews.
• Efficiently communicates to stakeholders to manage expectations and project progress.
• Ensures project documentation is up to date for all Business and technology documents (kick off, Charters, change management, implementation/cut over plans, decommissioning activities etc.).
• Manages IT risk by ensuring consistency with company methodologies, IT cyber and risk controls, standards and financial reporting
• Working with internal security, risk and compliance to ensure the necessary assessments are created, reviewed, and monitored and proactively addressed in a timely fashion.
• Ensures projects are setup and tracked in our internal system monitoring resource usage against budget allocations.
• Develops initial project budget and ensures proper mechanisms are in place to manage project change and associated costs proactively.
• Identifies and documents scope changes for change request documentation and approval management.
• Proactively participates and attends internal community of practice events and sessions.
• Be adaptable to the change and be Change Champion
• Maintains professional certifications.

What you will bring:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in project management, leading software implementations.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience managing projects involving integrations, data migration, or complex technical landscapes.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience managing project teams, providing coaching and /or feedback to resources.
• Superior ability to manage stakeholder relationships and provide excellent leaderships skills
• Strong presentation skills and meeting facilitation; displays confidence and poise in formal speaking situations; create effective and compelling presentations; keeps meetings clearly focused on the agenda.
• Ability to manage changing priorities/tight deadlines effectively in a fast-paced environment; ability to navigate ambiguity, overcome confusion, and simplify complex situations
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skills, with the ability to translate complex technical subject matter in business terms for executive audiences, succinctly and professionally.
• PMP certified
• Experience with SAP cloud and on premise or business/transformation initiatives
• Experience with different PM planning tools

The base salary for this position is between $63, $117,400.00 annually. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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You can be your best here. You're part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You'll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you'll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It's our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that's trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.

Canada Life serves the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we're one of Canada's leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach their potential.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Canada Life policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact

Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.