IT Project Delivery Manager

IT Project Delivery Manager

Calgary, Alberta Canada

Fulltime

Exciting new opening for an IT Project Delivery Manager based out of our client s corporate headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. You will report to the Director IT, Project Delivery and work closely with internal key stakeholders in IT, Health and Safety, HR, Finance, as well as lines of business.

The IT Project Delivery Manager is responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of IT projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required quality standards. The role plays a crucial role in ensuring IT projects are delivered successfully, acting as the bridge between the organization, IT teams, and external vendors or service providers. Strong project management, communication, and leadership skills are essential for this role.

Responsibilities:

Project Management and Delivery 60%

• Working with IT and business to ensure projects align with the organization's technology and business goals
• Responsible for leading and delivering multiple parallel IT Operational projects in a disciplined manner on time, on budget, within scope and quality specifications
• Develop well-defined project plans with Organization Change Management (OCM) strategy and stakeholder engagement details.
• Lead the creation of step-by-step deployment procedures with backout and roll-back sequences and timings, test plans and procedures
• Work hand in hand with contractors and suppliers to complete the required design, installation, commissioning of equipment and systems until complete handover to IT operations and the business
• Manage expectations of sponsor, steering committee and project team for agreed upon project performance by obtaining, providing and interpreting project metrics
• Work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes
• Provide expertise and consultation to junior project managers in the practice of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building and group motivation
• Successfully hand over the project outcomes to operations & support teams, leading to successful projects closure
• Manage interdependencies with other projects and operational activities.

Project Administration 25%

• Use project management software to maintain schedules and assign tasks
• Maintain regular project progress reporting on all phases of the project, as well as manage budget, timeline, issues, and risks with contingency plans to mitigate risks and issues.
• Assign work and provide direction regarding timeliness and completion of objectives to project team
• Continuously improving project management toolkits and methodologies used
• Ensure project transparency with timely and effective project communications
• Report progress to department and steering committee

Collaboration, Operations and Budget 15%

• Prepare and recommend project budgets and schedule for approval
• Monitor and balance assigned resources, budget, and schedule as necessary
• Negotiate changes in scope, resourcing, budget, or schedule with sponsor and steering committee and/or management
• Work with IT procurement to manage all invoices associated with assigned projects
• Maintain excellent relationships with vendors

• Represent project stakeholders within the IT change management process
• Gather lessons learned from stakeholders on project results and delivery experience; analyze feedback and incorporate same into on-going and future projects.

Working Conditions

The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular work week from Monday to Friday and on-call availability during implementation and burn-in/warranty periods, dependent upon project scope. As some travel will be required to site locations a valid Drivers License is required, as well as an up-to-date Passport for occasional travel across the Canada/United States border.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager leading Capital Projects over $1M
• Bachelors or Masters degree in relevant field (computer science, engineering, business)
• PMP certification or equivalent (Prince-2) required
• Previous experience managing projects within a construction materials industry is an asset.
• ITIL v4 Foundation, and security certifications are a plus.
• Previous experience within the construction materials industry, with a focus on technology including: infrastructure, network, cyber security, software and applications upgrade desired

• Disciplined approach in project management, requirements elicitation, risk and issue management, estimation, and forecasting.
• Analytical problem-solving ability for dealing with escalated issues arising from projects
• Strong leadership, negotiation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
• Effective multitasking, organizational, time-management and prioritizing competency
• Effective in mentoring, coaching, and transferring expertise to others
• Expert ability to impact and influence project outcomes
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with an emphasis on relationship management
• Highly effective verbal and written communications to executive and leadership

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