Senior Project Manager

Employment Type: Full-time Regular

City: Calgary, AB (YYC)

Posting Open Date: 02/21/2025

Posting Close Date: 03/06/2025 (Please note the posting will close at 11:59pm MST)

Why WestJet:

Every WestJet journey has the potential to enrich lives; a career with us is no exception.

WestJet arrived on the Canadian airline scene in 1996 and changed the industry for the better. We made air travel more affordable for Canadians and now we're going global.

Join us, this is where your career story takes off.

Overview

Reporting to the Senior Manager of IT Portfolio & Planning, the Senior Project Manager is a full-time role responsible for the delivery of projects that roll up to key enterprise and IT programs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Delivery Planning – Establish delivery plans for IT Projects in a complex environment with work spanning multiple product teams. Work with Product Managers to make sequencing decisions and to provide resourcing plans.
2. Financial Tracking – Understanding all aspects of your project budget and appropriately managing constraints.
3. Delivery Management – Lead key projects from inception to completion, orchestrating multiple teams and project-centric resources to align on project value delivery, along with management of scope, schedule, and cost.
4. Sequencing & Dependency Management – Manage dependencies of varying complexity and collaborate with Program Managers and Product Managers to decide upon appropriate up and downstream sequencing decisions.
5. Communications & Stakeholder Management – Responsible for all proactive and reactive communications for project sponsors and stakeholders. This includes effective collaboration and working across teams.
6. Escalations – Awareness of external impacts of on-project decisions, proactively communicating escalations up and out to broader sponsors and stakeholders. Provide proposed mitigation strategies and correction action as applicable.
7. Strategic Alignment – Liaise with both the Enterprise Architecture and Digital Steering teams to ensure that key projects continue to adhere to technology strategies and enterprise priorities respectively.
8. Other responsibilities as assigned and consistent with the role.

Education/Certification:

1. Post-secondary education within an Information Technology or Engineering Field.
2. Project Management certification of any framework (i.e. PMP, PRINCE2) is advantageous but not mandatory.
3. Any Agile and Product Management related certification is advantageous but not mandatory.

Experience:

1. 5+ years’ experience of delivering transformational technology projects.
2. Experience working within enterprise environments, working with cross-functional teams, and managing a range of stakeholders.
3. Previous experience working in a technical capacity, in any role or discipline is advantageous.

Skills & Attributes:

1. Technical Competency – A technical background or exposure to complex technical deliveries that yields critical thinking and the ability to challenge technical feasibility.
2. Communications – The ability to communicate across organizational, technical, and political boundaries, distilling down complex technical information to a format consumable and understood by non-technical audiences and stakeholders.
3. Agile Delivery – The ability to work within hybrid delivery environments; waterfall/agile, product/project, leveraging DevOps and SDLC tooling for organizational efficiency.
4. Planning – The ability to lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment, whilst coordinating and coaching other delivery teams as a central point of expertise.
5. Management – Strong commercial acumen including financial management, contract negotiation, and vendor selection.
6. Self-Direction – The ability to work independently, establish relationships and working practices with colleagues from multiple specialisms.

The benefits of being a WestJetter:

WestJet provides all WestJetters with a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:

1. A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win.
2. Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date.
3. Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs.

Think we are a fit? Apply now!

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At WestJet, we welcome unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds - if you’re passionate and excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification in the posting. We are committed to inclusivity, equity, and accessibility in the selection process. If you require an accommodation during the recruiting process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know.

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