Job Title : Project Manager
Location : Mississauga, ON
Type : 3 month Contract to Permanent
Interviews start : August 15, 2012
Starts : September 17, 2012
Overview :
Our client is seeking a talented
Project Manager with a strong retail PM background along with software experience to join their team.
Job Duties / Responsibilities :
- Ensure projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within customer expectations of quality and functionality
- Prepare and maintain a detailed project schedule and play a lead role in scoping, planning, costing, and pricing projects;
responsible for statement of work development and risk assessment
Manage customer acceptance of the solution, ensuring customer expectations stay in line with the agreed statement of work;
taking the lead in working through all issue
- Coordinate the establishment of a project environment that includes preparing and maintaining a roles / responsibility matrix, personnel plan and resource schedule for each project member.
- Measure, track, evaluate and communicate progress against the Project schedule using project reports including project financials and project reporting compliance.
- Author a weekly status report that is distributed and reviewed each week with the end user (Customer) in status meetings.
- Tool usage will include but is not limited to MS Project, PSA, Excel and MS Word
- Ensure execution and accuracy of monthly forecasts, billings along with the managing procurement and payment of contractors
- Travel is estimated to be approximately 40% of a work year.
Qualifications / Experience / Education :
- 4-8 years of project management experience
- Experience at working effectively in challenging solution implementation environments
- Experience managing complex, technology projects
- Appropriate PM formal education which could be : Completion of ESI courseware with Master’s -Certificate in Project Management, Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification through PMI, NCR’s PMIC
- French Canadian Verbal and Written Skills an asset.
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