senior project manager/leader.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager/Leader to direct large-scale, complex, and high-profile IT projects. In this role, you will take primary responsibility for project delivery using iterative delivery methodologies, managing scope, schedules, multi-channel budgets, and risk mitigation strategies. Working in a multi-stakeholder environment, you will lead cross-functional teams, align business and technical priorities, build executive-level briefings, and ensure project execution meets established quality and governance standards.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 8-month contract.

Advantages
Enterprise Delivery Ownership: Drive complex, multi-stakeholder IT initiatives using iterative project management methodologies.

Executive Visibility: Present strategic recommendations, status reports, and decision frameworks directly to senior leadership and steering committees.

High-Impact Domain Scope: Direct complex technical environments, including cloud architectures, RESTful APIs, and specialized data exchange standards.

Dedicated Onsite Synergy: Collaborate directly with project leads and cross-functional teams in a structured, 5-day onsite workspace.

Responsibilities
Project Delivery & Governance: Lead and manage end-to-end, high-profile IT initiatives following iterative project delivery methodologies, ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and on budget.

Schedule & Scope Management: Develop, maintain, and monitor detailed project schedules, work breakdown structures, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocations.

Financial & Budget Oversight: Manage complex project budgets, monitor cost forecasts, track actuals, and ensure fiscal control across multiple funding streams.

Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify project risks and operational issues, conduct impact analyses, and implement mitigation strategies.

Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Reporting: Prepare executive-level briefing materials, decision papers, status reports, and presentations for steering committees and governance bodies.

Team Leadership & Resource Management: Onboard, direct, and mentor diverse project personnel—including internal staff and external consultants—clarifying roles, setting performance expectations, and facilitating knowledge transfer.

Vendor & Technical Coordination: Oversee technical deliverables, ensuring solution components (such as APIs, cloud platforms, and data integration standards) align with enterprise architectural frameworks.

Qualifications
Senior Project Management: Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large, complex, multi-stakeholder IT projects (Strictly Required).

Iterative Methodology: Proven track record managing and delivering projects following an iterative project delivery framework (Strictly Required).

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Proven ability to prioritize workloads, demonstrate critical thinking, identify complex risks, and implement effective solutions (Strictly Required).

Executive Presentation & Communication: Superior verbal and written communication skills with extensive experience preparing executive-level briefings, proposals, and governance reports.

Fiscal & Scope Controls: Demonstrated experience managing multi-stream project budgets, tracking deliverables, and enforcing scope management.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Proven ability to direct, coordinate, and resolve resource conflicts across multidisciplinary technical and business teams.

Summary
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Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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