Project Manager
Position Type: Full-time
Location: Toronto
Experience: 5+ years
Job Description
The FlexITy Project Manager will ensure the successful completion of the projects and initiatives assigned. The position will report directly to the Director of Programs. The Project Manager will work directly with customers or indirectly through the advice they provide to other Project Managers and peers in the support of the FlexITy customers.
Customers will be enterprise based organizations. The focus is primarily on the delivery phase of the project life cycle. This includes building the project team, the construction of the project plan, the execution and delivery of all tasks to ensure the successful completion and sign-off of the project.
The Project Manager must ensure the projects match PMO quality criteria and will review project deliverables.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years experience in a Project Coordinator/ Project Management role within an IT organization.
- Experience in project management deployment of: Systems and Storage, IP/Telephone, Networking, Security and/or consulting in these areas – considered an asset.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills.
- Resource Management Skills an Asset.
- Experience in vendor management including contractual and service level agreements.
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proven Project management skills.
- Able to work effectively in team environment.
- Prior Project Management experience with an IT focus.
- Project Management Certifications an Asset (PMP).
Experience:
- Create and manage multiple and/or large scale project plans following PMI methodology and all knowledge areas; include scope, time, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and issue management (external and internal).
- Develop and implement project management processes and procedures to increase the success factors of each project implementation.
- Educate and mentor new Project Managers on internal processes and procedures.
- Create new and improve existing Project Management Templates, and create a procedure document that will ensure that every step of the Project Life Cycle is successful and that FlexITy obtains customer sign-off at all milestone steps including project completion.
- Work with the Director of Programs to manage and execute a Project Management Office and assist with the dissemination of project management methodology throughout all levels of the organization.
- Ability to develop and manage detailed “IT infrastructure” project plans.
- Experience managing complex, multi-site integration projects.
- Very strong project life cycle methodologies and processes
- Ability to communicate with customers at all levels and to effectively liaise with key stakeholders at the executive level.
- Ability to work on many projects concurrently
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision, prioritize work load and manage multiple tasks.
- Superior customer service skills.
- Superior organization, planning, time management and communication skills, verbal and written.
- Excellent documentation ability; attention to detail & demonstrated commitment to the accuracy and completeness of information
- Must be a team player.
- Strong analytical, consulting/client service, and relationship building skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively in a team environment.
- High level of experience with MS Project and MS Office Suite
- At least 5 years of project management experience in an IT organization
- Project management certification (PMP) an asset
- Resource management experience an asset
- Must be able to group facilitate, mediate over issues, and have strong conflict resolution skills
