Brandt Corporate Services Ltd. is seeking an IT Project Manager to join its growing team in Regina, SK. This position is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering large multi-phase IT projects and programs on time, within budget, and according to specifications by defining project requirements and scope, acquiring project resources, and supervising project team members.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct cost-benefit, risk, and ROI analyses to determine project feasibility.
- Manage the full lifecycle of Brandt's project portfolio.
- Lead new system installations, expansions, modifications, and migrations.
- Create project charters, milestones, staffing plans, risks, assumptions, and deliverables.
- Develop project timelines, work breakdown structures, and detailed plans.
- Adhere to established project management methodologies.
- Monitor project budgets and manage change requests.
- Manage third-party vendors and consultants.
- Conduct project post-mortems and continuous improvement reviews.
- Organize and lead project teams.
- Manage stakeholder engagement and change management activities.
- Establish project reporting and executive status updates.
- Ensure security and privacy requirements are met.
- Coordinate infrastructure capacity and resource planning with IT leadership.
- Participate in hardware and software evaluations.
- Keep current on industry trends and make recommendations to management.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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Required Skills
- Strong leadership skills and abilities to mentor and coach all team members to meet all goals and objectives
- Strong knowledge of financial management, technology management, and internal controls
- Intuitive grasp of organizational structure in order to manage cross-departmental and cross-disciplinary resource allocation
- Able to effectively communicate in both technical and user-friendly language when appropriate
- Able to build and maintain lasting relationships with business units, corporate departments, key managers, and other stakeholders
- Ability to prepare presentations and conduct meetings for business units and/or Executive Management groups
- Ability to communicate, track, and document issues and risk mitigation through resolutions
- Knowledge of system testing, disaster recovery, and system security best practices
- Ability to independently manage multiple activities at different locations and organize work to meet deadlines
- Highly effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Strong problem identification and problem resolution skills
- Flexibility to adjust to shifting priorities and deadlines
- Persuasive and motivating, with a strong focus on managing consultants
Required Experience
- 3+ years of direct work experience in the IT project management field
- Preference will be given to candidates with a post-secondary degree or diploma in computer science of project management, accompanied by project management experience
- Preference will be given to candidates with current and valid PMP designation
- Preference will be given to candidates with MS M365, MS Azure and/or MS Dynamics 365 experience
- Preference will be given to candidates with manufacturing, ERP, CRM and/or Supply Chain experience
- General understanding of IT systems, platforms, operational systems, and database programs
- Demonstrated success in project / program delivery and execution of project management processes
