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Senior Project Manager
2 years ago
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Reporting to the Director – Project Management Office, the Senior Project Manager is accountable to provide leadership, direction, and project management expertise to enable the effective implementation of multiple projects across eHealth’s organizations. This role will provide high level support for large scale projects and provide support from initiation through to final implementation. This includes leading multifunctional and cross divisional project teams on people, process, and technology projects of medium to high risk and complexity.
- Accountable for all aspects of the project (or phase) over the entire project life.
- Accountable for procurement, managing vendor relations, partner relations and managing end user expectations.
- Responsible for communicating status to project sponsors.
- Responsible for financial reporting.
- Organizing and directing work including prioritizing assignments, providing regular performance feedback, and taking necessary corrective action as may be required.
- Managing business analyst direct reports, providing direction, coaching, and career development.
- Accountable for promoting a productive and positive environment for project staff that encourages innovation, teamwork, initiative, and models corporate values.
Experience & Qualifications:
- 5 years’ experience in project management leadership or equivalent with demonstrated success in delivering large and complex projects in an IT setting with constraints of budget, timelines, and resources.
- 3 years’ experience with project procurement and vendor management.
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.
- Post-secondary education at the University or Technical Institute level in one of the following: Information Technology / Business Administration / Health Sciences.
The ideal candidate will be a resilient leader who demonstrates:
- Excellent ability to plan, organize and manage complex projects in a self-directed environment.
- Excellent analytical, decision making, and problem solving skills.
- Excellent ability to lead, mentor, motivate, mediate, and resolve conflicts with cross-divisional teams.
- Excellent knowledge of personal computers and software applications related to administration and Project Management.
- Extensive knowledge of project management standards, methodologies, and related practices, e.g. Project Management Institute’s (PMI) PMBOK, PRINCE2 and Prosci Change Management.
- A team player with strong initiative who can establish personal goals and take responsibility for meeting them within defined timelines.
- A change agent who is not threatened or intimidated by change and uncertainty.
- Ability to function in a dynamic environment subject to impromptu changes in schedules and priorities.
- An excellent leader who empowers project teams to excel.
- Ability to communicate complex issues to project teams in an effective manner.
- A conceptual thinker with excellent communication, facilitation, leadership, and consulting skills.
- Customer service focused within a shared service environment.
- Ability to navigate and build strong relationships in a large, complex multi-enterprise environment that includes customers with difficult and/or competing needs.