Project Manager, Team Lead

Working at Adaptavist
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
About Us
Adaptavist’s mission is to help organizations embrace the right tools, processes, and culture to make transformation their competitive advantage. And it all starts with you.
Working at Adaptavist is unlike any other job you’ve ever had. We trust you from day one. We encourage curiosity. We champion diversity. We’re never afraid to try something new.
Excited yet?
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that you can now fit work around your life, instead of trying to fit your life around work. You can even take as much vacation as you want. Yes, really!
As part of The Adaptavist Group, we make up a family of brands that combine people, processes, and technology to make businesses better. Offering trusted consultancy, app development, training, hosting, and licensing, we believe our unique and open culture underpins our status as the go-to partner of choice within the Atlassian Ecosystem.
Some Of Our Benefits In The US Include

• Employee assistance programme
• RRSP matching up to 4%
• Unlimited paid vacation
• Canada Life Care including Life Insurance, Healthcare and Dental Care
• Free online streaming service subscription
• Volunteer days
• Udemy online learning
• Flexible working
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

About The Team
You will be joining the one of the Project Management teams at Adaptavist and working alongside various internal cross functional teams within the business. This is a North American team with members based in Canada and the US. This team has been experiencing constant growth and development, which has led us to the decision to bring on an additional Team Lead!
About The Role
As the Lead Project Manager you will lead on planning, initiation, and management of a variety of projects. The role will proactively resolve project management issues in relation to cost, scope, timelines and quality where necessary. You will lead and manage a team of project managers and provide guidance and support to direct reports and teams with regards to project management activities. The Lead Project Manager will also act as a conduit between the delivery team and the client to ensure successful completion of work for all parties.
What You'll Be Doing

• Delivery Programme reports to the Head of Consulting on all projects regarding overall status and budgets
• Track invoicing status of projects
• Develop the communication strategy for the organisation
• Develop strategies for researching and obtaining information that is difficult to collect
• Manage, control and monitor the nature of project information and communication directives
• Provide guidance on the translation of the strategic goals of multiple projects into tactical and operational objectives
• Identify resourcing needs to effectively support current initiatives, services and offerings
• Delegate authority to match responsibility and hold the team accountable for agreed upon commitments
• Plan, allocate, and mobilise resources (human, physical, information and financial resources) to achieve organisational goals and ensure the efficient and appropriate use of resources
• Address gaps in team expertise and skill set
• Manage large (budget or scope), highly complex (functionality, specs, stakeholders), diverse or strategic projects that impact the organization, or a client as a whole
• Manage, coach and mentor a team of project managers
• Communicate expectations and objectives of resource usage, providing ongoing feedback, and addressing shortcomings
• Advise senior management on organization-wide quality issues and challenges
• Develop corporate policies and standards for project management and delivery
• Develop organization-wide plans to solve issues of quality
• Support employee in taking independent action, providing coaching along the way

What We're Looking For

• Capable of self-organizing and prioritizing personal workload
• Previous experience in a designated team lead or people management role
• Ensure effective management of scope, resources, time, cost, quality, risk and ability to plan, allocate, and mobilize resources
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to tailor communication style to stakeholders at all levels of an organization
• Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills working with clients and colleagues
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing skills, interacting appropriately with technical and business resources
• Apply formal project management principles and practices during the planning, implementation, monitoring and completion of the project

A few nice to haves

• Demonstrable experience managing change in a technical environment
• Project Management qualification
• Experience within a fast-paced, fast-growth Tech start-up environment
• Strong domain knowledge of the tools suite Adaptavist currently offers

At Adaptavist, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community, and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.
We look forward to your application!