IT Project Manager

Description du Poste

Job Title : IT Project Manager

Location : Montreal, QC

Duration : 18 Months

Responsibilities and Required Skills :

• Lead all project management activities for assigned mandates, including major, high-visibility deliveries with a level of complexity requiring increased leadership and political acumen.
• Contribute to organizing the delivery teams necessary to achieve set objectives, ensure adherence to agreed-upon guidelines, and help stakeholders maintain focus on high-value business priorities, sometimes including the management of service agreements with external suppliers. You will be responsible for managing several teams working on parallel deliveries.
• Adapt your service delivery to often multi-modal contexts (i.e., with agile or Lean-Agile transformation teams, with or without external suppliers or integrators, or sometimes partially in a more traditional way). Therefore, you must stand out with a capacity for adaptation and clear enthusiasm.
• Organize, synchronize, and lead planning, follow-up, and feedback events.
• Comply with the standards of the IT Portfolio Directorate (aPMO) and ensure teams apply the practices encouraged by the Centers of Excellence (CoE).
• Contribute to and help teams manage risks, issues, and blockers surrounding deliveries by anticipating and proactively addressing them, then defining necessary action plans to facilitate execution.
• Regularly and transparently share global progress reports (assumptions, delivered value, deadlines, costs, quality, risks, issues, major blockers, progress, and achievement of objectives and benefits).
• Establish resource and cost forecasts, including the contribution of experts, such as those in change management, when required.
• Work in close collaboration and ensure good daily communication with: internal partners, managers, Scrum Masters, performance analysts, and IT portfolio managers in your sector.
• Exercise leadership to rally teams around a common vision and shared goals.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Minimum 10 years of experience as an IT Project Manager.
• Proven experience in managing complex IT projects.
• Experience in the insurance field and with cross-selling projects will be strong assets.
• Possess strong negotiation and conflict management skills, as well as proven leadership.
• Demonstrate excellent analytical capacity and critical thinking geared toward solutions and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge and experience using a planning and tracking tool.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Mobilizing and deliverables-oriented leadership.
• Ability to manage several parallel initiatives in a dynamic environment.

Technologies : Salesforce, Mulesoft, HubSpot (asset but not required). Must be able to understand the system and its challenges without having "hands-on" experience.

Methodology : Agile, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), PI planning every quarter.

Assets / Certifications :

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) or higher.
• SAFe RTE or PMP.