RQ08854 Project ManagerLeader

Job title: RQ08854 Project ManagerLeader

Company: Randstad


Job description: The Project Manager Leader role is focused on leading large-scale, complex, and high-risk IT projects across all phases of the project lifecycle. This includes planning, scheduling, budgeting, and managing resources to ensure successful delivery of project goals. The role requires deep understanding of project management methodologies, risk mitigation strategies, and stakeholder engagement. With hands-on leadership in managing timelines, deliverables, and technical teams, the Project Manager ensures that business requirements are met on time and within scope. Experience in both Agile and Waterfall environments, combined with strong communication and negotiation skills, is essential to drive high-profile initiatives forward.Advantages

• Opportunity to lead enterprise-wide IT initiatives with significant business impact.
• Hands-on experience managing high-profile and high-risk projects through all lifecycle phases.
• Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Leadership role with visibility to senior executives and decision-makers.
• Strategic involvement in budget planning, business cases, and stakeholder governance.
• Hybrid work arrangement supporting in-person and remote flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale, complex, and high-risk IT projects across all project phases.
• Develop and manage project schedules, integrated plans, scope, and other deliverables.
• Analyze project environments to identify risks and prioritize mitigation strategies.
• Manage large project budgets, ensuring fiscal control and accuracy in forecasts and actuals.
• Lead scrum teams and daily standups using tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Guide all governance and approval processes, including business case development and Treasury Board submissions.
• Supervise project staff, provide leadership, and manage client and stakeholder expectations.
• Deliver project, program, and portfolio reporting to senior executives and multi-stakeholder groups.
• Promote project management best practices and ensure compliance with standards like PMI/PMBOK, SDLC, and ITIL.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing high-risk, high-profile IT projects from inception to completion.
• Proven ability to develop integrated plans and manage all project deliverables.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, Enterprise Architecture, and project governance frameworks.
• Experience using tools such as Azure DevOps to manage scrum teams and daily operations.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, change management, and conflict resolution.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and leadership abilities for team and executive interaction.
• Public sector experience and knowledge of social services, programs, and policies is considered an asset.

Summary
This Project Manager Leader role offers the opportunity to lead transformative, high-impact IT initiatives from concept to execution. With a focus on risk management, stakeholder collaboration, and Agile/Waterfall delivery, the position requires a strategic leader capable of managing complex projects while delivering results within scope and timeline.Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada’s workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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Location: North York, ON

Job date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 05:42:48 GMT

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