Senior Client Project Manager (Bilingual French/English)

Description

Do you enjoy working in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can feel comfortable bringing your authentic self to work?

Are you a naturally curious person that believes learning is a continuous journey?

Do you prioritize your well-being and want your employer to do the same?

The TELUS Business Customer Experience (BCX) team knows that we are better together, so join us and together, let’s make the future friendly.

Lead projects and programs that make a different to our customers!

Our Team And What We’ll Accomplish Together

You’re a doer not a talker, and are determined to be on the leading edge and shake things up. It’s a crazy competitive place with a lot of uncertainty but

you’re a pioneer; a progressive, hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves kind of person. You have a proven track record of effective project and service delivery and are ready to take on your next challenge.

The TELUS National Solutions Delivery Customer Program Management Office (NSD CPMO) team is passionate about providing best-in-class project management and support to TELUS Business Solution team’s largest customers. We’re not your traditional project management team. Highly motivated and driven, we strive to deliver industry-leading customer experiences. We focus on balancing TELUS’ operational constraints, contractual requirements, profitability, advocating for the customer and actively managing and enhancing program delivery.

What You’ll Do

This position will provide you with broad exposure to various groups and members of our leadership team. As such you must have the ability to quickly develop relationships across the organization while contributing to a collaborative work environment. In this role you'll get:

• Grow and evolve your project management skillset through our PMO industry leading standards
• Demonstrate your ability to mentor and provide leadership to resources supporting your projects
• The ability to influence and shape the Project Management best practices and strategy on the team
• Exposure to the latest products and technologies that TELUS is building to support our customer’s evolving needs
• Visibility with TELUS’ senior leadership teams in support of our largest customers across Canada
• The opportunity to work and collaborate with a passionate team driven by the desire to deliver best-in-class customer experience
• Expand your knowledge by learning about our customer’s businesses across various industries
• Own the customer delivery as a single point of contact by being accountable for the customer experience and profitability of your projects

Qualifications

What you bring

The successful candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter with an engaging leadership style, solid influencing and facilitations skills. You must have the ability to quickly develop relationships across the organization while contributing to a collaborative work environment and bring the following to the role:

• Thrive on Ambiguity: Provide clarity to successfully navigate and lead through areas of grey
• Strategic Mindset: Able to develop a strategic vision and correlating priorities to lead the team through delivery
• Decisive Nature: Ability to analyze data to make decisions and problem solve to align with the corporate strategic vision
• People Leadership Skills: Ability to leverage the leader/coach model to drive a high-performance team culture
• Operational Know-How: Operational best practices in service delivery, assurance and customer care
• Financial Management Skills: Ability to capture and track project financials, reporting on status and measuring overall profitability
• Love of a Fast-Paced Environment Driving Innovation: Comfortable leading in a continuously changing, dynamic environment including digital innovation projects
• Project Management Experience: A proven history of delivering quality multi-PLT/stream, large, complex programs
• Compelling Communication Skills: Clear, concise and influential in all aspects of communication to various audiences

Additional Requirements

• Ability to travel
• Undergraduate degree in one of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, Engineering or Technical Discipline or equivalent 7 - 10 years’ equivalent experience
• Security clearance: Candidates must have, or meet, Provincial and Federal security clearance requirements
• Thorough understanding of project management methodologies, principles and practices
• A disciplined approach to ensure strong project financial controls to manage revenue, margin, and capital spend aligned with the business case
• Demonstrated knowledge of TELUS wireline and/or wireless products and supporting fulfillment processes
• Bilingualism (English/French) required to support French projects and customers in Quebec
• PMP designation or 10 years’ program and/or project management of major, complex engagements managing cross functional programs and stakeholder groups

Great-to-haves

• Certified Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, ITIL & Own.it certifications, or equivalent designation an asset
• Experience with public sector customers is desirable