Senior Business Project Manager

Mandate Overview

• The client explicitly rules out profiles whose experience centres on coordinating technology deliveries. The person starts from a strategic direction, clarifies the business objectives and expected benefits, then builds the project structure: governance, roles, milestones, dependencies and monitoring mechanisms. They act as the central point of contact for the sponsor, the steering committee, managers and internal and external contributors, including the integrator. They hold sole accountability for reporting, authorize resource changes and manage project risk. The software integration and platform change context, combined with GPAP knowledge, places the mandate within a transformation environment specific to the client.
• Candidate sought: a senior project manager who has personally launched business projects from a still unclear vision, defined their scope and governance, then carried them through to deployment before a steering committee. Ideally with prior Desjardins experience, GPAP knowledge and at least one software platform replacement or integration project.

Requirements

Key Requirements:

Required

• Demonstrated business project management, from initial definition and structuring through deployment
• Experience at Desjardins and knowledge of GPAP
• Experience in a risk management context and/or in a financial institution
• Experience in a software integration and platform change project

Preferred

• Competencies named in the mandate: analysis and synthesis, complex and ambiguous contexts, communication, political acumen, collaborative culture, planning and coordination, leadership and initiative

Asset

• Master's or graduate degree in project management

Profiles to Exclude

• Profile whose project experience is limited to coordinating technology deliveries (production releases, deployments), without defining business objectives, scope or benefits.
• Profile that takes over already framed projects, with no project launch shown on the resume (governance, roadmap, roles and responsibilities established by the person).
• Profile with no demonstrated reporting to a sponsor or steering committee.
• Profile with no project on the resume involving software integration or platform change.
• Scrum Master, PO or PCO profile presented as equivalent to an accountable project manager role.