12 Oct
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Visionpool Business Services
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Quebec City
12 Oct
Visionpool Business Services
Quebec City
Visionpool Business Services is hiring a REMOTE Project Manager for Strategy & Impact Business Enablement.
Description of Duties
- Lead one or more projects or initiatives through all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes.
- Lead discovery, planning, and requirements-gathering activities to establish transparent business objectives, scope boundaries, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, planning sessions, and governance discussions to support informed decision-making and project success.
- Develop and maintain project management plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency logs, communication plans, governance processes, and status reporting mechanisms.
- Manage project scope by assessing proposed changes, identifying impacts, preparing recommendations, and facilitating appropriate governance decisions.
- Coordinate the planning, prioritization, delivery, and approval of project deliverables across internal teams, external vendors, consultants, and stakeholders to ensure work is completed on time and aligned to project objectives.
- Coordinate and support the delivery of communications, marketing, digital, content, event, partnership, or stakeholder-engagement workstreams by facilitating planning, scheduling, issue resolution, dependency management, approvals, and stakeholder alignment.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, business leaders, and delivery teams while leading cross-functional teams to ensure effective collaboration, communication, accountability, and successful delivery outcomes.
- Monitor project performance and proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
- Prepare and present project updates, options analyses, recommendations, and decision materials for project sponsors, governance bodies, and executive stakeholders.
- Support Agile and hybrid delivery approaches through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement activities.
- Identify opportunities to improve project delivery practices, governance processes, requirements-gathering approaches, stakeholder engagement practices, and organizational project management maturity.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of business experience, including at least 3 years leading projects,
programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities.
- Experience independently managing projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out.
- Experience developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication plans, and status reporting processes.
- Experience leading requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation activities, and solution-definition discussions.
- Experience establishing scope boundaries, documenting assumptions and constraints, managing project scope, and assessing impacts arising from proposed scope changes.
- Experience facilitating stakeholder alignment and consensus-building across multiple business units, leadership groups, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams.
- Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests while providing recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies.
- Experience leading Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery approaches, including backlog management, sprint planning, roadmap planning, governance reviews, and delivery oversight.
- Experience supporting cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, organizational change, and executive visibility.
- Experience preparing and presenting project updates, options, recommendations, risks, issues, and decisions to sponsors, steering committees, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders.
- Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Commerce, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Professional project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent recognized certification.
- Direct experience, working knowledge,
or an educational background in the following areas:
- Communications & Engagement – Experience supporting communications, public engagement, storytelling, advocacy, awareness, or brand-related initiatives involving diverse stakeholder groups.
- Stakeholder Partnerships – Experience coordinating initiatives involving external partners, sponsors, customers, industry organizations, government stakeholders, vendors, or cross-functional teams.
- Marketing & Digital Media Delivery – Experience leading or coordinating marketing, events, content production, digital platforms, campaigns, activations, or other externally facing deliverables.
- Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out capabilities.
- Strong requirements-gathering, business analysis, and scope-definition skills.
- Ability to establish clear scope boundaries and facilitate discussions that distinguish requirements, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change requests.
- Demonstrated capability to facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder discussions to uncover business needs, identify risks, and develop practical solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, negotiate, and gain alignment across diverse groups and competing interests.
- Advanced risk, issue, dependency, and change-management capabilities.
- Strong governance and decision-support skills, including preparation of executive presentations, status reports, steering committee materials, and recommendations.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Strong facilitation and consensus-building skills.
- Ability to identify, assess, and manage project interdependencies, competing priorities, and organizational impacts.
- Strong organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience managing and coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
- Ability to coach stakeholders and team members on project delivery practices, governance expectations, and project management methodologies.
- Experience using Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog management, reporting, and collaboration tools.
- Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies, including their appropriate application within varying delivery environments.
📌 Project Manager (Quebec City)
🏢 Visionpool Business Services
📍 Quebec City