Job Title: Project Manager Location: Mississauga, ON Type: 3 month Contract to Permanent Interviews start: August 15, 2012 Starts: September 17, 2012 Overview: Our client is seeking a talented Project Manager with a strong retail PM background along with software experience to join their team.
Job Duties/Responsibilities: -Ensure projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within customer expectations of quality and functionality -Prepare and maintain a detailed project schedule and play a lead role in scoping, planning, costing, and pricing projects; responsible for statement of work development and risk assessment -Manage customer acceptance of the solution, ensuring customer expectations stay in line with the agreed statement of work; taking the lead in working through all issue -Coordinate the establishment of a project environment that includes preparing and maintaining a roles/responsibility matrix, personnel plan and resource schedule for each project member. -Measure, track,
evaluate and communicate progress against the Project schedule using project reports including project financials and project reporting compliance. -Author a weekly status report that is distributed and reviewed each week with the end user (Customer) in status meetings. -Tool usage will include but is not limited to MS Project, PSA, Excel and MS Word -Ensure execution and accuracy of monthly forecasts, billings along with the managing procurement and payment of contractors -Travel is estimated to be approximately 40% of a work year.
Qualifications/Experience/Education: -4-8 years of project management experience -Experience at working effectively in challenging solution implementation environments -Experience managing complex, technology projects -Appropriate PM formal education which could be: Completion of ESI courseware with Masters -Certificate in Project Management, Project Management Skilled (PMP) Certification through PMI, NCRs PMIC -French Canadian Verbal and Written Skills an asset.