Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Job ID 1913BR
Line of Service Internal Firm Services
Job Type Full-time
Location: Toronto
Deadline:04/09/ 2013
Job Description:
Join Canada’s fastest growing ‘Big Four’ professional services firm and the largest in the world! Take advantage of a fantastic opportunity to join one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers.
PwC Canada helps organizations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. More than 5,700 partners and staff in offices across the country are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax, consulting and deals services. PwC Canada is a member of the PwC network of firms with close to 169,000 people in 158 countries.
This position is part of the Project Management Office (PMO) within Canada IT reporting to the Director, PMO. The PMO provides project management services and portfolio reporting for a wide range of internal projects within PwC Canada, including complex IT projects as well as a variety of strategic business initiatives.
The Senior Project Manager will independently lead and manage multiple complex, high impact projects through to successful completion by following a structured project management methodology and approach that aligns with PMI standards. Throughout the project life cycle, the Senior Project Manager will work closely and collaboratively with sponsors, key stakeholders, vendors, offshore providers and project team members to ensure that the solution implemented fully meets the costs, time and quality expectations of the internal client.
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the overall success of the project and producing the project deliverables.
Key responsibilities include:
· Evaluating business impact and developing project business cases
· Defining, managing and monitoring the project scope, objectives, key deliverables, risks, budget, resources and securing the required approvals
· Identifying and managing resources as needed to accomplish project objectives
· Managing relationships with sponsor and key stakeholders, including communications, status reporting and escalation of critical project issues
· Providing direction, leadership and coaching to the team of project managers within the PMO
· Contributing to the management and reporting of the PMO portfolio
· Building and maintaining relationships with members of leadership that help profile and market the services and capabilities of the PMO
The Senior Project Manager must be organized, disciplined and focused with the ability to effectively lead and manage a cross functional team of people to produce the project deliverables. To succeed in this position, he/she must be an adept negotiator and facilitator, competent at relationship building and conflict resolution, possessing superior communication skills and acting decisively at all times. The successful candidate will be expected to work independently with little oversight, report to and communicate with members of senior leadership and coordinate and manage global projects involving other territories and remote teams.
Qualifications
Education/Experience:
· Bachelors degree or equivalent in business related discipline
· PMP certified preferred
· At least five years hands-on project management experience preferably in the financial or banking industry or a partnership-based business
· Proven experience managing multiple large sized complex projects from initiation though to implementation and hand-off to the operations and support organization
· Experience leading and interacting with cross-functional and offshore teams
· Experience and good understanding of business case development and process improvement initiatives
· Experience and good understanding of organizational change management practices and processes that address an organization’s change readiness
· Experience in coaching and developing people
Capabilities
Communications:
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with leadership as well as staff at all levels of the organization
· Demonstrates ability to understand and effectively communicate business objectives as they relate to project goals.
· Ability to develop and deliver presentations that are clear and that achieve the intended results
· Presents their point of view confidently and persuasively
· Interacts effectively with the target audience to obtain buy-in on difficult issues (e. g. , proposed changes to business process or culture)
· Facilitates sharing of information and ideas, assisting individuals and groups in reaching consensus and negotiates the needs of diverse groups
Client Service Skills:
· Proactively manages client expectations by:
o communicating issues and risks, their implications and results
o defining and prioritizing issues, risks, problems, and opportunities
o gaining consensus on what needs to be done and gaining sign off
o recommending approaches and solutions
o clearly communicating scope, timing, cost, deliverables and resource requirements and getting approval to proceed
People Development:
· Motivates and encourages team members through coaching and confidence building
· Inspires enthusiasm and achievement by probing team members for new ideas and providing a culture that supports them to achieve their personal and professional goals
· Assists in issue resolution and encourages co-operation among teams with conflicting goals and objectives
· Trains new staff in the technical fundamentals of the job
· Works with team members to develop challenging personal development plans that align business, team and individual needs
Problem Solving:
· Has well developed and proven analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
· Is able to work with ambiguity in the initial stages of a project and clarify business objectives and scope through discussions with stakeholders
· Develops sound and creative ideas or solutions to client issues and assists in developing vision for the project.
· Encourages others to think creatively in generating solutions to problems
Understanding Business Processes:
· Strong business acumen
· Able to coordinate teams to identify needs and determine strengths and weaknesses in business processes
· Understands the interaction between business, process and technology and is able to identify opportunities for technology to enable process change
Relationship Management:
· Participates in strategy or other management meetings with clients
· Able to develop business case with the client to identify the business value they are expecting and establish ways to monitor this throughout the life of a project to ensure benefits are realized. The Project Manager will utilize appropriate metrics, and report to the client the realized benefits of the project within agreed upon timeline/plan
Vendor management:
· Manages third party suppliers both on and off shore across medium and large scale projects
Product or Service Integration & Deployment:
· Assesses the potential impact of a solution, including process, organizational and technology changes
· Develops an implementation approach that satisfies the needs of the client and the business and is sustainable in the long term
· Establishes processes and organisational structures and responsibilities that allow the project to hand over ongoing responsibility for the changes made by the project
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