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Project Manager

  • REMOTE, SK, AB, MB, BC, ON, QC
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Visionpool Business Services is hiring a REMOTE Project Manager for Strategy & Impact Business Enablement. 

 

Description of Duties: 

  • Lead one or more projects or initiatives through all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes. 

  • Lead discovery, planning, and requirements-gathering activities to establish clear business objectives, scope boundaries, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables. 

  • Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, planning sessions, and governance discussions to support informed decision-making and project success. 

  • Develop and maintain project management plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency logs, communication plans, governance processes, and status reporting mechanisms. 

  • Manage project scope by assessing proposed changes, identifying impacts, preparing recommendations, and facilitating appropriate governance decisions. 

  • Coordinate the planning, prioritization, delivery, and approval of project deliverables across internal teams, external vendors, consultants, and stakeholders to ensure work is completed on time and aligned to project objectives. 

  • Coordinate and support the delivery of communications, marketing, digital, content, event, partnership, or stakeholder-engagement workstreams by facilitating planning, scheduling, issue resolution, dependency management, approvals, and stakeholder alignment. 

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, business leaders, and delivery teams while leading cross-functional teams to ensure effective collaboration, communication, accountability, and successful delivery outcomes. 

  • Monitor project performance and proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges. 

  • Prepare and present project updates, options analyses, recommendations, and decision materials for project sponsors, governance bodies, and executive stakeholders. 

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

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

 

Required Experience:  

  • Minimum 5 years of business experience, including at least 3 years leading projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities. 

  • Experience independently managing projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out. 

  • Experience developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication plans, and status reporting processes. 

  • Experience leading requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation activities, and solution-definition discussions. 

  • Experience establishing scope boundaries, documenting assumptions and constraints, managing project scope, and assessing impacts arising from proposed scope changes. 

  • Experience facilitating stakeholder alignment and consensus-building across multiple business units, leadership groups, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams. 

  • Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests while providing recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies. 

  • Experience leading Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery approaches, including backlog management, sprint planning, roadmap planning, governance reviews, and delivery oversight. 

  • Experience supporting cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, organizational change, and executive visibility. 

  • Experience preparing and presenting project updates, options, recommendations, risks, issues, and decisions to sponsors, steering committees, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders. 

  • Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Commerce, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

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

  • Direct experience, working knowledge, or an educational background in the following areas: 

  • Communications & Engagement – Experience supporting communications, public engagement, storytelling, advocacy, awareness, or brand-related initiatives involving diverse stakeholder groups. 

  • Stakeholder Partnerships – Experience coordinating initiatives involving external partners, sponsors, customers, industry organizations, government stakeholders, vendors, or cross-functional teams. 

  • Marketing & Digital Media Delivery – Experience leading or coordinating marketing, events, content production, digital platforms, campaigns, activations, or other externally facing deliverables. 

  • Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out capabilities. 

  • Strong requirements-gathering, business analysis, and scope-definition skills. 

  • Ability to establish clear scope boundaries and facilitate discussions that distinguish requirements, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change requests. 

  • Demonstrated capability to facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder discussions to uncover business needs, identify risks, and develop practical solutions. 

  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, negotiate, and gain alignment across diverse groups and competing interests. 

  • Advanced risk, issue, dependency, and change-management capabilities. 

  • Strong governance and decision-support skills, including preparation of executive presentations, status reports, steering committee materials, and recommendations. 

  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable recommendations. 

  • Strong facilitation and consensus-building skills. 

  • Ability to identify, assess, and manage project interdependencies, competing priorities, and organizational impacts. 

  • Strong organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. 

  • Experience managing and coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority. 

  • Ability to coach stakeholders and team members on project delivery practices, governance expectations, and project management methodologies. 

  • Experience using Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog management, reporting, and collaboration tools. 

  • Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies, including their appropriate application within varying delivery environments.