Our client is a leader in Business Intelligence and analytics. Their software provides one integrated process for analyzing data from every source and gaining the predictive power to drive change at every level. This is your chance to join this great organization which has been included on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for seven straight years. They have selected ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to help them find a Project Manager for their Toronto office.

ROSS is an innovative leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), HR Technology, Recruitment and HR Professional Services. We’re a company of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their Business Growth.

Purpose

• Provide Project Management for medium-sized client projects and project teams, and/or internal projects as assigned, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery, and high-quality deliverables.
• Ensure that all internal and external projects are completely and accurately represented in Changepoint, and all other financial and reporting systems.
• Continuous improvement of our client’s solution delivery capabilities, and sharing of related knowledge and best practices with the PM community.
• Assist in service estimation and solution sales processes.

Major Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of assigned projects, including management of scope, budget, risk, resources, plan/timeline, internal communications and external client communications. Leads project teams and is responsible and accountable for overall success of project.
• Determines staffing needs for projects, and works with resource management and other project managers to coordinate assignment of staff to projects. This may include working with a small number of subcontractors and/or partners in a relatively simple fashion as needed.
• Encourages and fosters individual professional growth, as well as teamwork among project staff.
• Works with pre-sales, Business Unit Manager, and Legal to prepare services contracts.
• Ensures all assigned projects comply with our internal processes. (e.g. as documented within PMO).
• Participates in, or leads knowledge-sharing activities and makes contributions to internal knowledge-base. This may include working with and/or providing presentations to Services, Marketing, Sales, and Pre-sales groups.
• May assist or shadow other Project Managers in large projects.
• Ensures internal and external client, escalation procedures are followed in a timely manner for prompt problem resolution on projects.
• Proactively maintains an understanding of our client’s solutions and architectures, including competitive analysis. Develops a deeper level of understanding as needed to meet project requirements. This may include building and maintaining strong ties with other corporate resources such as R&D, Marketing, driver teams and technical support.
• Works with pre-sales to help qualify solution sales opportunities. Provides services time/effort estimates and project plans for use in proposals.
• Provides client presentations regarding internal methodologies, value propositions, and project management processes.
• Builds new and leverages existing client contacts to identify new business opportunities.
• Provides input into consulting group processes and procedures.
• Mentors other Project Managers as assigned.
• Increased responsibility for incorporating subcontractors, partner resources and partner processes into projects as determined by client/partner needs.
• Participates in Project Management team review of PMO processes, and actively develops/contributes material to PMO as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree, preferably in Business or Computer Science.
• Demonstrated breadth of project management skills with minimum 5 years of experience managing multi-person applications development projects or equivalent, preferably in a vendor/competitive sales environment serving external clients.
• At least 5 years of experience in managing IT related projects in a vendor setting.
• Knowledge of MS Word, Excel.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Project.
• Ability to conceptualize client needs and translate into specific implementation strategies.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills.
• A combination of directly related education and experience may be considered in place of the above requirements.
• Ability to travel.

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