Intermediate Project Manager/Leader

We are seeking an experienced Intermediate Project Manager/Leader to oversee the planning, delivery, and governance of enterprise IT initiatives. In this role, you will provide project management leadership across the complete project lifecycle, directing internal cross-functional teams and external vendors. You will be responsible for managing project schedules, budget tracking, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communications while ensuring solutions meet business objectives, cost efficiencies, and formal project management methodologies.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 5-month contract.

Advantages
COTS & Cloud Exposure: Lead project management activities for enterprise cloud platforms and specialized CRM solutions.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Direct multi-disciplinary teams across IT, business, finance, procurement, and vendor organizations.

Agile & Waterfall Delivery: Apply flexible PM methodologies including Agile, Kanban, and traditional project delivery frameworks.

Dedicated Onsite Collaboration: Collaborate directly alongside senior project directors and business leaders in a focused 5-day per week workspace.

Responsibilities
Project Execution & Schedule Management: Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, integrated project plans, scope baselines, and deliverables using Agile and Kanban frameworks.

Team & Vendor Leadership: Provide leadership to project teams and third-party vendors, assigning tasks, setting performance expectations, and managing resource allocations.

Budgeting & Fiscal Control: Oversee project budgets, tracking actual costs against forecasts, monitoring variances, and executing financial reconciliation reporting.

Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify project risks and operational bottlenecks, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate critical issues to steering committees and executive leadership.

Governance & Stakeholder Management: Establish steering committees, facilitate stakeholder alignment across business, IT, finance, procurement, and legal teams, and ensure adherence to gating processes.

IT Transition & Change Support: Coordinate technology infrastructure transitions, software/hardware acquisitions, and change management strategies to ensure seamless system adoption.

Project Documentation: Author foundational project management artifacts, including Project Charters, Terms of Reference, status reports, and executive decision briefs.

Qualifications
Enterprise Platform Management: Hands-on experience managing project lifecycles involving Oracle Service Cloud or similar enterprise CRM/service platforms (Strictly Required).

Project Leadership & Vendor Oversight: Proven track record providing project leadership to multidisciplinary teams and external service providers/vendors across all project phases (Strictly Required).

Risk Management & Problem Solving: Demonstrated experience in project monitoring, proactive risk identification, troubleshooting, and issue resolution (Strictly Required).

Methodology Expertise: Strong proficiency in I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard delivery methodologies (Agile, Kanban, Waterfall) (Strictly Required).

Cross-Functional Governance: Proven ability to manage project schedules, track budgets, and facilitate governance across business, IT, finance, legal, and procurement stakeholders (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Alignment with PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guidelines or PMP certification.

Prior project management experience within a public sector or broader public sector environment.

Familiarity with web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA / AODA) and enterprise architecture review processes.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Intermediate Project Manager/Leader" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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