Technical Project Manager - Jobs in Winnipeg, MB

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Technical Project ManagerLocation: This position will be based in our Winnipeg, Burlington, and Toronto offices.Application Deadline: January 30, 2023Our organization:Founded in 2017, Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. (Wellington-Altus) is the parent company to Wellington-Altus Private Counsel and Wellington-Altus Private Wealth —the top-rated* wealth advisory company in Canada and one of Canadas Best Managed Companies. With more than $20 billion in assets under administration and offices across the country, Wellington-Altus identifies with successful, entrepreneurial advisors and portfolio managers, and their high-net-worth clients.

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The opportunity:Reporting to the Associate Vice President, PMO, the Senior Technical Project Manager will be accountable for the coordination and completion of cross-functional, technical, and business programs and projects of varying complexity and size, within scope, timelines, and quality targets. The Project Manager is responsible for advancing Wellington Altus’ corporate strategic commitments and enterprise business applications through Program and Project delivery, acting as the hub to coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the execution of multiple projects.Key responsibilities include:

• Determining, defining, and capturing project scope and objectives including success criteria and value-delivery, involving all relevant internal stakeholders, and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Working with stakeholders to define and manage the scope, strategy, requirements, and implementation of projects.
• Defining, analyzing, and setting target outcomes using data and analytics as key vehicles to drive improvements and measure progress, ROI, and success criteria of project/program.
• Ensuring that projects are delivered on-time, within scope, budget, and quality targets.
• Predicting and managing resources needed to reach objectives in an effective and efficient manner and ensuring resource availability and allocation.
• Developing, managing, and tracking detailed project schedules to monitor and track progress.
• Tracking and providing project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, performance, adjustments, and progress.
• Managing changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs and adjusting as needed.
• Establishing, managing, coordinating, and maintaining relationships with the project team - both internal and third parties/vendors through the project lifecycle.
• Identifying, analyzing, and mitigating/solving, documents while controlling project risks and issues that impede successful delivery.
• Reporting and escalating to manage risks, actions and decisions as needed.
• Reviewing and accepting vendor invoices.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation.

• Delegating project tasks based on team members individual strengths, skill sets, experience levels and decision authority.
• Developing comprehensive project documentation as required to be shared with team members supporting transparency and engagement.
• Reviewing and providing input towards vendor contracts to ensure it is representing the needs and interests of the Wellington Altus stakeholders and target outcomes.
• Using and continually developing leadership and influencing skills.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, product management or computer science.
• 5+ years of hands-on Project Management experience in IT and non-IT programs.
• High proficiency in managing both waterfall and agile project methodologies; PMP or CSM designation would be an asset.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to convey outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Start-up experience is an asset.
• Knowledge of Project Management Domain.

• An organizational perspective to thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• An ability to build strong, balanced, symbiotic, and cross-functional relationships.
• Experience making hard trade-offs and decisions with running multiple, competing priorities concurrently .
• A demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive constant improvement to achieve results.

Conditions of employment:

• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
• A background check, satisfactory to the employer, may be required of the successful applicant prior to commencing employment.

Wellington-Altus is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and welcomes applications from women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and genders. All qualified individuals who would contribute to the further diversification of our organization are encouraged to apply.If you require accommodation for the recruitment process, please let us know at the point of application.To apply:Click the Apply For This Job button to submit your resume, cover letter and salary expectations. You will be contacted if you are selected for an interview. More information about working at Wellington-Altus can be found on our website at www.wellington-altus.com.Quick Apply

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