Pharmacist

A Taleo client is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager, proficient in Spanish and English.

This is a contract position, and the successful candidate must be available to work in office in Calgary, AB.

Responsibilities include:

• Direct accountability for planning and executing one or more Agile or Waterfall projects as solution scope requires to project performance criteria (on time, within scope, on budget, and meeting quality standards) as defined in the project statement(s);
• Work with Product and resource owners to identify internal and external stakeholders, and then lead stakeholder management activities throughout the project life cycle;
• Own the development and review of project requirements with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Technical Leads to ensure the project will deliver to the planned benefits;
• Facilitate interactions between Technical Leads, Project Delivery Staff, and QA Leads to ensure that project delivery and testing completion are aligned;
• Facilitate cross-departmental project delivery activities, and gain commitment for delivery while managing competing demands, to ensure that project delivery dates are not compromised;
• Plan project implementations, facilitate implementation dry runs, and lead Go live activities to ensure production implementations do not adversely impact the production environment;
• Escalate material issues and risks to leadership in a timely fashion;
• Ensure that Organizational Change Management activities are completed to drive product adoption;
• Ensure that Transition to Support is planned for, completed, and approved so that the support organization can support all new or modified systems;
• Follow IS PMO processes regarding deliverables, stage gates, and controls in accordance with SOX and management controls compliance;
• Create and maintain project financials across project cost budget managed in SAP and Excel;
• Provide accurate and timely project financial submissions;
• Develop, monitor and control all aspects of project delivery in accordance with IS PMO and project management best practices;
• Develop, and support the development, of presentations to senior management regarding project scope, schedule, budget, and current status updates.

Role Requirements:

• Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing in Spanish and English;
• 10+ years of experience leading large, multi-stakeholder business-focused application development IS projects;
• Deliver Custom Development, and/or Application Integration projects, and/or IT Infrastructure implementation or upgrade, including software, using primary Iterative, Agile or Waterfall Project methodologies;
• Rapidly learn new business processes and operating practices, and apply this knowledge to improve project planning and delivery;
• Lead SOW development, participate in contract negotiations, and manage Vendors and materials delivery;
• Hands-on experience using Jira and Microsoft Project to plan and deliver projects;
• Ability to communicate and influence decision-making at executive and working levels, with demonstrated prioritization and conflict resolution experience;
• University degree or equivalent in Commerce/Business Administration, Engineering, or Computer Science;
• Project Management Professional certificate (PMP) or equivalent experience;
• PMI-ACP or Certified Scrum Master would be considered an asset.