Project Manager [Mccain Foods]

Position Title: Project Manager

Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Requisition ID: 23858

Job Purpose

This Project Manager position will oversee the delivery of one or more projects in a wide variety of fields, such as technology deployments, security, business, and technology led projects. The Global Technology Project Manager is responsible for the initiation, planning, controlling, monitoring, execution of and closing of projects linked to contracted deliveries. Responsibilities also include building project strategies for assigned projects using agile or the waterfall methodologies. Through team management, planning, project clarification, and process ownership, the Project Manager will facilitate creativity, help team members work together, remove impediments to progress, facilitate meetings, foster team empowerment and entrepreneurship, and enable the team to complete tasks on time at a high level of quality. The position requires a good communicator with experience in managing risks, adjusting schedules and tasks to meet committed timelines and can lead projects.

Job Responsibilities

Project Planning and Process Management

• Understand and document a thorough understanding of the business outcomes
• Identifies and resolves project issues and mitigates risks, manages deviations from plans, provides progress reports as needed
• Manages the day-to-day work activities of team members, organizing and coordinating the team, and leading project status, daily huddles, and working meetings
• Ensure that vendors are performing in accordance to contractual obligations
• Manage contract objectives and contract budgets
• Develop regular reporting on contract milestones, execution and risk
• Work amongst a team of Project Managers supporting waterfall and agile projects while sharing and driving agile ways of thinking and working
• The Project Manager must be able to build relationships with cross functional team members and stakeholders.
• Champions ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for agile project management and improve team efficiency and effectiveness
• Monitor and control assigned programs and project execution on time, budget, and quality
• Define projects and plans using short development cycles while focused on timely and quality delivery by team

Team and Change Management

• Assists in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; and mentoring and developing team members
• Closes any communication gaps with key constituents outside of the team
• Leads change management in a fast-paced, agile work environment. Leads team towards swift and clear decision making, pivoting plans and activating the team members simultaneously with new direction
• Responsible for stakeholder management, collaboration, and execution approach
• Ability to build relationships with cross functional team members and stakeholders.
• Promotes empowerment of the team, ensures that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution. Helps to maintain entrepreneurial culture of team

Skills And Competencies

• Comfort with quickly changing priorities and a high level of adaptability and flexibility while maintaining the "big picture" view
• Excellent analytical, strategic planning and execution skills
• Strong business acumen, including industry- and domain-specific knowledge of the organization and its business units. Familiarity with industry digital trends and innovation
• Ability to follow the PMO processes, perform administrative tasks and have the skills to take on the role of agile Scrum Master
• Able to quickly develop deep understanding of McCain's business from a cultural & operational perspective
• Effective change manager, attention to detail, problem solving skills, enthusiasm, assertiveness, and ability to be hands on as needed
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with others as well as manage conflict
• Comfortable navigating corporate politics and resolving conflicting priorities
• Knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
• Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the program objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business strategy
• Exceptional organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize and direct team to let go of unnecessary or distracting work
• Influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with high competition for resources
• Knowledge of project planning tools, such as Microsoft Project with evidence of practical application
• Ability to develop programs and deliver them with financial and resource constraints

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in managing "upward" among senior leadership and ensure accountability of team
• Minimum 10 or more years of experience in IT business/industry with Project Management experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required with PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is considered an asset
• Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams
• Five to seven years in diverse roles with increasing leadership responsibilities across major projects and programs
• Strong communication and ability to manage multiple internal and external organizational relationships all while driving results
• Able to think nimble and out of the box to drive improvements within existing methodologies
• Substantial leadership roles and collaboration experience

Other Information

• Job is primarily performed in a hybrid working model
• Travel: as required
• Key internal relationships: PMO Portfolio and Project Managers, VP Global Technology Product Solutions, VP Data Analytics, Regional HR Teams, Global Leadership Team, Corporate Communications

The above information indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
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Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Technology
Department: Project Management
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)