Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (2-3 days in office)
Contract Length: 12 months with possibility for extension.
We at Raise are a hiring a Project Manager Non-IT for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.
We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities
- Ensures project adherence to Scotiabank project management policies and standards and delivers on time, scope and budget.
- Create business cases as appropriate with Scotiabank’s PMO guidelines.
- Organize appropriate workstreams and RACIs to ensure clear roles and accountabilities.
- Managing project scoping, ensuring that objectives, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints are clearly defined and documented.
- Identifying required team members. Defining project governance and identifying senior stakeholders to form steering committees. Preparing Steering Committee documentation, presentations, and chair meetings.
- Establishing a strong working relationship with the internal client(s) for each assigned project. Working with them to articulate and document the desired business outcomes.
- Preparing Project Management documentation, including project charter, schedule, budget, communication plan, risk assessment, among other documents, as well as integrated project plan.
- Coordinating the definition of the project’s business requirements with the business leads/subject matter experts. Providing guidance and support to quickly move projects from concept to detailed requirements and executive approval.
- Ensuring project key deliverables / components / activities such as business requirements definition, testing plan, implementation plan, business change management plan, etc. are reviewed, discussed, and approved by the appropriate parties/individuals.
- Partner closely with all key stakeholder to ensure integrated project plan holds all key milestones.
- Managing overall project execution phase (i.e. creating a robust project plan, identifying project dependencies, integrating project’s components, tracking activities to the project plan, etc.)
- Proactively managing, raising and resolving project risks and issues. Defining and executing mitigation plans, jointly with team members.
- Managing, tracking, and reporting on the project budget as applicable. Preparing monthly cost/expenses forecast, quarterly accruals and year end carry forwards.
- Preparing Executive level presentations to communicating project status to the Team Members/Senior Management. Preparing project communication documentation such as project’s dashboard, meeting minutes, etc.
- Ensuring adherence to the Project Change Management process.
- Leading operational and financial activities to formally close the project. Ensuring the successful transition from “project” to “ongoing process”, in coordination with all involved parties.
- Provide leadership and direction to the project team members. Keep them motivated to accomplish the established goals. Leverage available resources in a manner that maximizes performance and productivity within the Team.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills
- 7-10+ years of experience as a Project Manager with Agile environment experience running sprints
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in MS Office suite and project/process design and administration tools (e.g. Visio, MS project)
- 2-3 years of experience managing stakeholder complex projects in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
- 2-3 years of experience working on Contact Centre strategies, operations, Voice & Non-Voice channels, technologies, and industry trends.
- 5+ of Business background in financial services with strong knowledge of retail banking products (loans, mortgages, lines of credit, card cards), sales processes, and distribution channels
- Spanish fluency is mandatory as they will be working on a project with our international countries.
Certificate
- PMP and/or Scrum Designation mandatory
Nice-To-Have Skills
- Knowledge of Scotiabank’s standard project processes in an asset.
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
- PMP and/or Scrum Designation mandatory
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