25 Oct
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Symbiotic Group
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Canada
25 Oct
Symbiotic Group
Canada
Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager, Strategy & Impact Business Enablement for a net-new role.
The Project Manager will lead projects and business initiatives through the full project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out.
The successful candidate will bring strong project delivery, business analysis, requirements gathering, stakeholder management, governance, risk management, and cross-functional leadership capabilities. The role will also support workstreams involving communications, marketing, digital delivery, content, events, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement.
Required Experience
- 5-8 years of business experience, including at least 3-4 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.
- In addition to the required experience listed above, the preferred candidate will have 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.
Required Skills
- 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.
- Solid 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
📌 Project Manager (Canada)
🏢 Symbiotic Group
📍 Canada