Project Manager (Agile) Jobs

Are you looking for a stimulating and dynamic job in the surrounding area of Toronto? Would you like to be part of a team that believes in your potential and part of a great company that will help you advance in your career? This is the job for you! We are currently looking for a Project Manager (Agile) for one of our clients in the insurance industry.

What is in it for you:

• 04-month contract with strong potential for permanent employment.
• Join a passionate and inclusive team of professionals.
• Stable work schedule from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and professional environment.
• A focus on work-life balance to ensure your wellbeing and productivity - This position offers a hybrid work arrangement.
• Hourly salary of $84.50.
• Full-time (37.50 hours per week).

Responsibilities:

• Manage all phases of IT/Business projects from initiation to closure while leveraging best practice standards and processes set out by Sun Life’s PMOs and other industry organizations, including PMI.
• Provide clear direction and motivation to project team.
• Work with multi site project teams.
• Ensure that project activities and deliverables adhere to internal quality standards.
• Define and manage project risks and issues ensuring appropriate strategies and plans are in place to mitigate or handle effectively. Proactively escalate risks and issues as appropriate.
• Ensure that appropriate processes, tools, and techniques are available and used by the project team.
• Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure project delivery expectations are specified and successfully met.
• Ensure the definition and approval of project scope, deliverables, desired quality, and measures of success.
• Ensure effective and timely communication occurs within the project team and between the project team and their stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on project status highlighting issues and risks appropriately. And, as necessary, coordinate the development, discussion, and approval of corrective action and/or contingency plans.
• Develop and manage detailed work plans, project schedules, estimates and resource plans in conjunction with project team members and other involved business and IT teams.

What you will need to succeed:

• University degree, college diploma or appropriate experience in lieu of.
• Ability to partner with resource managers to deal fairly, firmly, and promptly with performance problems.
• Ability to work with some ambiguity and help project team members work with ambiguity.
• Ability to hold project team members and other stakeholders accountable to ensure that projects can progress according to plan.
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery methodology.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner or equivalent.
• Ability to influence and manage difficult situations through to resolution; escalating as required and utilizing critical judgement in knowing when to do so.
• Strong problem solving and ability to make recommendations on for decisions.
• Project management experience in the insurance industry or finance industry.
• Effectively analyze project expense trends and understands the impact on projected spend.
• Can effectively and concisely communicate project and technical information to provide comprehensive, concise recommendations to management.
• Ability to create project plans and identify dependencies.
• Overall project management experience of 5-10 years at a senior level, with proven results.
• PMP Certification or equivalent, and in good standing with PMI.
• Expert knowledge of project management techniques, tools, and methodologies.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on relationship management and team building.
• Has a personal sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done and instills the same in the project team.

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