RQ11116 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader (Siebel)

RQ11116 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader

10-month contract (200 business days) - possible extension

ONSITE 5 days - Toronto

Must Have:

• Strong understanding of Siebel functionalities, features, terminologies, work breakdown structure, data structure knowledge, components, dependencies, etc.
• Expert understanding of Siebel Resource skills, roles and responsibilities.
• Good communication skills not only with Business stakeholders, Project Leadership but also with the Siebel and IT technical resources.
• Experience in project planning, management and monitoring experience related to all phases of concurrent I&IT projects using multiple technologies and methodologies
• Experience in creating and tracking the project progress, project decisions and notes, risk log and change management
• Experience in managing and coordinating different stakeholders and project resources, assignments and progresses
• Experience in change management from I&IT project implementation including documenting changes, providing options, estimating impact and seeking approval or direction from the project executive.
• demonstrated interpersonal and consultation skills to communicate project deliverables and build strong project teams and client relationships

Nice to have:

• knowledge of the OPS I&IT project management governance and methodologies would be an asset
• Experience with public sector I&IT project change management would be an asset
• Experience with Public Sector Transfer Payment (Grant) Model would be an asset

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $77.24/hr - $92.69/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $61.79/hr - $74.15/hr T4