Project Manager

Skills

• agile
• pmp
• requirements-gathering
• stakeholder-management

Must have

1. 5-8 years of business experience, including at least 3-4 years leading projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities.
2. Experience independently managing projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out.
3. Experience developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication plans, and status reporting processes.
4. Experience leading requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation activities, and solution-definition discussions.
5. Experience establishing scope boundaries, documenting assumptions and constraints, managing project scope, and assessing impacts arising from proposed scope changes.
6. Experience facilitating stakeholder alignment and consensus-building across multiple business units, leadership groups, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams.
7. Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests while providing recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies.
8. Experience leading Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery approaches, including backlog management, sprint planning, roadmap planning, governance reviews, and delivery oversight.
9. Experience supporting cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, organizational change, and executive visibility.
10. Experience preparing and presenting project updates, options, recommendations, risks, issues, and decisions to sponsors, steering committees, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders.
11. Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Commerce, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of educ
12. Professional project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent recognized certification.
13. In addition to the required experience listed above, the preferred candidate will have direct experience, working knowledge, or an educational background in the following areas:
14. Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out capabilities.
15. Strong requirements-gathering, business analysis, and scope-definition skills.
16. Ability to establish clear scope boundaries and facilitate discussions that distinguish requirements, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change requests.
17. Demonstrated capability to facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder discussions to uncover business needs, identify risks, and develop practical solutions.
18. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, negotiate, and gain alignment across diverse groups and competing interests.
19. Advanced risk, issue, dependency, and change-management capabilities.
20. Strong governance and decision-support skills, including preparation of executive presentations, status reports, steering committee materials, and recommendations.
21. Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
22. Strong facilitation and consensus-building skills.
23. Ability to identify, assess, and manage project interdependencies, competing priorities, and organizational impacts.
24. Strong organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
25. Experience managing and coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
26. Ability to coach stakeholders and team members on project delivery practices, governance expectations, and project management methodologies.
27. Experience using Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog management, reporting, and collaboration tools.
28. Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies, including their appropriate application within varying delivery environments.

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