Project Manager – Strategy & Impact Business Enablement Pasted markdown

Accountabilities

• Lead strategic projects, programs, and business enablement initiatives throughout the entire project lifecycle, from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, implementation, and close-out.

• Define project objectives, scope, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, schedules, governance structures, and delivery plans.

• Facilitate discovery sessions, requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, process mapping, and solution-definition discussions to establish clear business needs and scope boundaries.

• Monitor and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, change requests, and competing priorities, providing recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams, senior leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders to align deliverables, approvals, communications, and project activities.

• Prepare and present executive-level project updates, status reports, risk assessments, options analyses, recommendations, and decision-making materials.

• Support Agile and hybrid delivery approaches through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.

• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams that may include communications, marketing, digital, content, events, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement.

• Strengthen project delivery practices, governance processes, requirements-gathering methods, and stakeholder engagement approaches to improve organizational project management maturity.

• Coach stakeholders and teams on effective project delivery, governance, and collaboration practices.

Requirements

• Five to eight years of overall business experience, including at least three to four years leading projects, programs, organizational change initiatives, or business transformation activities.

• Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Commerce, Communications, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline is preferred.

• A recognized project management certification, such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent qualification.

• Strong expertise in project planning, execution, monitoring, delivery, and close-out across the full project lifecycle.

• Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering, business analysis, scope definition, stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops, and process mapping.

• Proven ability to manage project scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks, issues, and change requests.

• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, influencing, facilitation, and consensus-building skills, including the ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Experience with Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies, including backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

• Strong understanding of project governance, executive decision support, organizational change, and business transformation.

• Experience coordinating vendors, consultants, external partners, and diverse stakeholder groups.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, reporting, and analytical skills, with the ability to communicate complex information clearly and persuasively.

• Strong organizational skills, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and attention to detail.

• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, reporting, collaboration, and backlog management tools.

• The ability to guide stakeholders and teams toward consistent, effective project delivery practices in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Remote work:The position is advertised as fully remote.

• Strategic impact:The opportunity to lead high-visibility initiatives aligned with business priorities and organizational objectives.

• Cross-functional collaboration:Work closely with senior leaders, subject matter experts, internal teams, vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders.

• Professional development:Opportunities to strengthen project management, business transformation, stakeholder engagement, and governance expertise.

• Continuous improvement:Contribute ideas and recommendations that enhance project delivery processes and organizational effectiveness.

• Diverse project exposure:Potential involvement in communications, marketing, digital, content, events, partnerships, and stakeholder-engagement initiatives.