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The Role
The Project Manager will be responsible for organizing, planning, and executing projects while working within the restraints of budgets and schedules. Project managers lead entire teams, define project goals, communicate with stakeholders, and see a project through to its closure. The Project Manager is responsible for the success or failure of each project.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
- Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
- Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards.
- Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
- Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
- Establishing good relationships with clients and other professionals.
- Managing budgets and tracking costs
- Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
- Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
- Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients.
- Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.
- Managing customer satisfaction within the project transition period.
- Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- ERP project oversight.
Skills And Experience
- Bachelors’ degree
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience; professional services or consulting experience strongly preferred
- Broad industry experience with implementing medium to large hospital information systems projects within the last 3 years
- Prior experience implementing, training, or supporting enterprise resource planning software strongly preferred
- Strong stakeholder engagement experience with C level executives, and steering committees – presenting project and business level updates
- Certification and Experience in development, system administration, security administration and/or system configuration
- PMP Certification and at least five years of experience in full project life cycle planning, monitoring, controlling, and closing
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Able to balance urgent, short-term needs with strategic, long-term priorities
- Exhibits strength in relating to people, including the ability to deliver feedback and inspire and motivate others to succeed
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting customer service commitments and project timelines
- Ability to adapt quickly to changes in the work environment and to alter approach or method to successfully lead change; reacts well under pressure
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, computers, email, correspondence, and spreadsheets
- Must demonstrate and embody Nordic’s maxims
Additional details
- Most projects will have a remote/hybrid model but some may require occasional travel up to 25% of the time
Special focus given to candidates within the Canadian Atlantic Provinces