Location: Mississauga, ON
Type: 3 month Contract to Permanent
Interviews start: August 15, 2012
Starts: September 17, 2012
Overview:
Our client is seeking a talented Project Manager with a strong retail PM background along with software experience to join their team.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
-Ensure projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within customer expectations of quality and functionality
-Prepare and maintain a detailed project schedule and play a lead role in scoping, planning, costing, and pricing projects; responsible for statement of work development and risk assessment
-Manage customer acceptance of the solution, ensuring customer expectations stay in line with the agreed statement of work; taking the lead in working through all issue
-Coordinate the establishment of a project environment that includes preparing and maintaining a roles/responsibility matrix, personnel plan and resource schedule for each project member.
-Measure, track, evaluate and communicate progress against the Project schedule using project reports including project financials and project reporting compliance.
-Author a weekly status report that is distributed and reviewed each week with the end user (Customer) in status meetings.
-Tool usage will include but is not limited to MS Project, PSA, Excel and MS Word
-Ensure execution and accuracy of monthly forecasts, billings along with the managing procurement and payment of contractors
-Travel is estimated to be approximately 40% of a work year.
Qualifications/Experience/Education:
-4-8 years of project management experience
-Experience at working effectively in challenging solution implementation environments
-Experience managing complex, technology projects
-Appropriate PM formal education which could be: Completion of ESI courseware with Master’s -Certificate in Project Management, Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification through PMI, NCR’s PMIC
-French Canadian Verbal and Written Skills an asset.