Project Manager

Toronto, ON

6 Months

This position is for an established and productive professional individual contributor in Project Management, who works independently with minimal supervision, overseeing all aspects of small or moderately complex projects. This position provides technical support for project management activities on moderately complex projects.

Request Number: 8962-1

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Toronto

Duration: 6 months plus*

Rate: $75

Contract to hire: Temp role but potentially

Hours: 9:00-5:00 Flexibility Global role

Remote or Onsite: Remote to start

Equipment: Pick up or ship: Either

Interview process: 1-2 interviews; 1 with HM then HM plus 1 Zoom 35-45 minutes

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Ideal start date: Early August

Education

Experience: 10 years' experience; Change Management experience

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Additional Details

- Testing and change management
- Pilot roll-out
- Testing data and triage any troubleshooting
- Testing groups are testing at the appropriate times
- Train the trainer
- SME trained by the project team
- Process Docs that will need to be updated

What are the applications to be supported?

- Cloud
- Oracle Upgrade
- Business applications

What are the top three MUST HAVE skill sets (technical) that are required?

- Strong on PM side
- Track and Management
- Oracle experience is a plus
- Understanding software development life cycle
- Testing coordination and reporting

Soft Skill requirements (team fit/personality requirements)

- Testing experience
- High energy
- Strong communication skills
- Organized

Project Manager – Testing and Change Management

Overview

- Based in the Toronto office, the candidate will be responsible for managing the testing and change management of a Oracle Cloud system implementation for pilot countries and global rollout. The main responsibilities will be to ensure that the testing phases are executed successfully from end to end, reporting results and triage reported defects. This person would also be responsible for tracking and monitoring change management tasks, communications, training, business process documentation that is completed by the business leaders and subject matter experts.
- The candidate will report into the Corporate Information Solutions (CIS) department under the Revenue Solutions Team which works on IT projects for financial systems ranging from system integrations, enhancements, upgrades and replacements, with the ultimate aim of creating efficiencies, eliminating manual processes, automation, and enhancing the user experience for clients and colleagues.
- The candidate may work across multiple projects and interact with clients, business stakeholders, and technology teams across the globe.
- You are a seasoned and principle based project manager, have a good background in financial systems projects, and either currently in a IT project manager/program manager role with Insurance and/or Financial Industry domain knowledge





- Manages moderately complex projects or pieces of a larger project end-to-end to deliver business outcomes, ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to a high level of client satisfaction.
- Establishes and manages an appropriate project governance structure, and manages all project stakeholders and project team members in the successful delivery of the project, including managing their tasks, project workload, and deadlines.
- Ensures comprehensive scope document is in place at the start of the project, and continuously reviews the scope document as the project progresses and suggests changes of scope, as appropriate.
- Actively manages all project risks and issues, and ensures lessons learned on projects are shared with colleagues and recommendations adopted are implemented.
- Liaises with other areas in the organization to secure specialized resources and contributions for the project.
- Provides accurate and timely cost estimates for project work where requested, together with providing regular reporting on project costs and discuss any cost issues.
- Interacts and communicates effectively with project teams, third party providers, clients, etc.
- Provides technical support and input to the Manager on project proposals of average to difficult complexity.
- Researches and provides recommendations on new best practice standards.

Qualifications / Skills / Experience

- Energetic, highly motivated, self-starter
- Collaborative, organized, pro-active approach to leading each project
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to build partnerships with internal and external teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and juggle multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Assertive, proactive, and results-focused
- Ability to manage and drive multiple global projects to successful completion, some complex, highly cross-functional, and long in duration
- Proven excellent people skills to be able to lead and motivate the project teams.
- Track record of effectively delivering complex IT projects for financial systems successfully
- Expert in creating and maintaining project plans using MS Project
- Driving requirements gathering and testing sessions, getting regular status updates, resource planning, scope management, managing cutovers and managing project budgets.
- Delivery of Oracle EBS implementations, upgrades and Cloud Financials Projects
- Delivering several large and complex implementations/upgrades projects
- Experience leading and facilitating meetings with large number of participants




- Experience working with a distributed team of analysts, developers, and shared services including off-shore contractors

Client McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is the world's leading qualified services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Company's 76,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annualized revenue approaching $17 billion, Client & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses.

Client advises individual and commercial clients of all sizes on insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions. Guy Carpenter develops advanced risk, reinsurance and capital strategies that help clients grow profitably and pursue emerging opportunities. Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations meet the health, wealth and career needs of a changing workforce.

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Can you tell me about the project and the day-to-day responsibilities for the contractor?

- Based in the Toronto office, the candidate will be responsible for managing the testing and change management of a Oracle Cloud system implementation for pilot countries and global rollout. The main responsibilities will be to ensure that the testing phases are executed successfully from end to end, reporting results and triage reported defects. This person would also be responsible for tracking and monitoring change management tasks, communications, training, business process documentation that is completed by the business leaders and subject matter experts.

What are some of the specific technologies utilized?

- Client ALM
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint
- What are the top three MUST HAVE skill sets (technical) that are required?
- Knowledgeable on software development for financial applications
- Microsoft Project Expert Level
- Oracle EBS / Oracle Cloud
- What are top three PREFERRED skill sets (technical)?
- Communication - Excellent written and communication skills for client facing role
- Testing - Coordination and Reporting
- Change Management – Communications, Training, Business Process Document
- Soft Skill requirements (team fit/personality requirements)
- Energetic, highly motivated, self-starter
- Collaborative, organized, pro-active approach to leading each project
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to build partnerships with internal and external teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and juggle multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Assertive, proactive, and results-focused
- Proven excellent people skills to be able to lead and motivate the project teams.

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