Role:
Program Manager (Bilingual)
Location:
Ottawa, ON.
Details:
Mandatory bilingual position - candidates must be fluent in French and English
1 year contract role
Hybrid - Min. 3 days in office
The Ideal Candidate:
- Valid PMP Designation
- Works with the Senior Manager to manage the delivery project(s)/ program.
- Leads, motivates and provides guidance/coaching to team members.
- Plans, coordinates, organizes, directs and controls project activities to achieve desired results
- Provides estimates, and manages budgets
- Provide financial forecasts & accruals as required
- Defines and manages project scope e.g. via Joint application development (JAD) sessions
- Conducts project review meetings and ensures quality standards are adhered to through all phases of the project
- Manages client issues and project risks
- Validates project form as, ensuring accuracy of billing, charges to projects, etc.
- Utilizes project management best practices
- Design and publish plan of record to senior leadership
- Supports the Senior Manager in dealings with the external vendors and tracking their work.
- Ready to lead into implementing agile practices at an enterprise scale- based on resent experience or at least formal Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) training.
- Experience working on Carrier grade Voice telephony project
- Multi-years experience in vendor management – to be savvy in both sides of the relationship: experience as PM/PgM representing the vendor(s) as well as being the PM/PgM managing both Canadian based and internationally based external vendors.