Project Manager

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Financial
Job ID number: 230

Description

The Role

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Real Estate Delivery, the Project Manager will be responsible for leading the delivery of multiple projects with significant impact to the organization and multi-year budgets in the range of $1-5M.
The Project Manager will be accountable for ensuring projects are planned and executed within agreed to parameters for scope, cost, schedule and quality and ensuring their projects are delivered well and meet their intended business objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead project teams and stakeholders throughout the real estate delivery project lifecycle – including Quebec based projects where written and spoken communications must abide by the recipient’s preferred language
• Define project priorities, objectives, scope and deliverables, in alignment with business goals, working in conjunction with business sponsors and vendors
• Monitor construction progress to identify and resolve difficult and sometimes complex design or construction issues that are not immediately evident in a timely manner
• Ensure effective project management tracking and communication standards resulting in transparency of delivery progress and awareness and understanding by key stakeholders
• Active stakeholder management with focus on building and maintaining strong relationships and ensuring expectations are understood and met

Competencies

• Delivers business value by leveraging qualitative and quantitative information to guide actions and make recommendations
• Manages complexity by asking the right questions(s) to analyze situations and able to distinguish which facts are relevant to solving a problem
• Build and maintain strong relationships; engages and influences others, working transparently and cooperatively with cross-functional teams
• Executes with excellence by optimizing work processes while driving for results
• Demonstrates perseverance in delivering work and problem solving – can delegate assignments and decisions appropriately
• Applies industry insights and trends to drive critical initiatives and leverages quantitative and qualitative information to improve performance
• Focuses on a problem’s root cause(s) and explores a variety of solutions
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments, with some supervisory oversight to review approach and results. Decisions are guided by specific objectives

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of financial / real estate industry experience
• Bilingual mandatory (English & French)