Project Manager - Senior - MSON #17

Job Title: Project Manager – Senior
Location: Toronto, ON
Experience: 3–9 Years
Job Type: Contract

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of complex IT and business transformation initiatives. The candidate will manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, resources, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring compliance with applicable OPS I&IT project management methodologies and governance requirements. Experience with enterprise application implementations, upgrades, or modernization initiatives involving Oracle HCM/ERP, Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, and PeopleTools 8.61.09 is desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery in accordance with approved project management methodologies.

• Develop and maintain project charters, integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and delivery milestones.

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, success criteria, assumptions, and dependencies.

• Manage project risks, issues, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.

• Monitor project performance and implement corrective actions to address schedule, budget, resource, and delivery variances.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, business stakeholders, technical specialists, vendors, and external partners.

• Facilitate project governance meetings, steering committee sessions, status reviews, and decision-making forums.

• Prepare executive status reports, project dashboards, risk assessments, and management updates.

• Ensure project deliverables meet agreed quality standards, business requirements, and governance expectations.

• Manage stakeholder expectations, resolve escalated issues, and facilitate alignment across business and technical teams.

• Oversee project change control, scope management, resource planning, and delivery prioritization.

• Manage implementation, testing, deployment, transition, and operational readiness activities.

• Coordinate enterprise application initiatives involving Oracle HCM/ERP, Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, and PeopleTools 8.61.09 where applicable.

• Ensure project documentation, approvals, decisions, and reporting meet OPS I&IT requirements.

• Identify process improvements and apply lessons learned to strengthen project delivery.

• Support procurement, vendor management, budget tracking, and contractual deliverable monitoring where required.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 3–9 years of professional experience in project management, preferably within IT or enterprise transformation environments.

• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and deliverables.

• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and project lifecycle management.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.

• Ability to develop project plans, status reports, risk registers, issue logs, and executive-level communications.

• Experience managing dependencies, change requests, resource constraints, and delivery risks.

• Strong facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Experience supporting or delivering enterprise application implementation, upgrade, or modernization projects.

• Familiarity with OPS I&IT project management methodologies and public-sector governance requirements.

• Strong organizational, communication, and leadership capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing Oracle HCM/ERP or Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 initiatives.

• Exposure to PeopleTools 8.61.09-related upgrades, enhancements, or implementation activities.

• Experience in public-sector IT, enterprise resource planning, human capital management, or large-scale systems integration.

• Familiarity with Agile, waterfall, and hybrid project delivery methodologies.

• Experience with vendor coordination, procurement, and executive governance reporting.