Senior Project Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ11817

Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager / Project Leader to lead and deliver complex audio-visual, telecommunications, videoconferencing, and I&IT projects. The successful candidate will oversee project planning, stakeholder engagement, procurement activities, vendor management, risk management, change management, and end-to-end project delivery for large-scale enterprise technology initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and lead projects as part of large, multi-year enterprise initiatives involving:
• Complex network architecture
• Telecommunications solutions
• Audio-visual systems
• Videoconferencing technologies
• Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions
• Manage client relationships and collaborate with business stakeholders.
• Lead project teams and provide guidance on the use of audio-visual and information technology solutions to support business planning and improvement initiatives.
• Develop project charters and master project plans.
• Define project goals, deliverables, and scope while ensuring stakeholder alignment and approval.
• Identify, assess, monitor, and manage project risks, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Provide leadership to project teams, contractors, vendors, and external service providers.
• Manage project change requests, assess impacts, revise plans, schedules, and budgets as required.
• Support the development of business cases and executive-level submissions.
• Coordinate procurement activities, negotiate goods and services, and administer contracts.

Key Deliverables

• Procurement planning for hardware, software, network circuits, and bandwidth requirements
• Risk assessment development and management
• Communication planning
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development
• User adoption and change management planning
• Facility scope validation
• Mobilization planning and requirements definition
• Test strategy and test plan development
• Validation of facility and construction completion
• Equipment procurement, receipt, and validation
• User interface reviews and approvals
• Functional design validation
• On-site system implementation oversight
• Quality assurance testing
• System and functionality testing
• Solution commissioning and client sign-off
• Vendor closeout documentation review and acceptance
• Lessons learned facilitation
• Project closeout reporting
• Participation in service review meetings

Required Qualifications

Project Management

• Minimum 10 years of project management experience.
• Experience managing medium to large-scale, technically complex I&IT projects.
• Proven ability to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Strong experience in project planning, scheduling, resource management, financial management, and governance.
• Expertise in risk, issue, and change management.

Audio-Visual & Technology Experience

• Minimum 5 years of audio-visual and videoconferencing technology experience.
• Experience with enterprise communications technologies including:
• Audio-visual systems
• Videoconferencing solutions
• Voice technologies
• Data communications
• Video technologies
• VoIP
• Telecommunications infrastructure

Technical Knowledge

• Understanding of:
• Enterprise infrastructure technologies
• Cloud technologies
• Software development methodologies
• Technical architecture and design principles
• IT security best practices
• High-availability solution design
• Operations management
• Knowledge of technical standards, principles, and implementation best practices.

Procurement & Financial Management

• Experience acquiring and negotiating goods and services.
• Experience administering vendor and supplier agreements.
• Budget planning, forecasting, and financial oversight experience.

Communication & Leadership

• Strong leadership and team-building capabilities.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and consultation skills.
• Experience preparing and delivering:
• Presentations
• Business cases
• Proposals
• Project documentation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and build collaborative relationships.

Software Proficiency

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Project

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous public sector experience is considered an asset.
• Experience supporting justice, regulatory, or government-based technology initiatives is considered an asset.

Work Arrangement

• On-site, five (5) days per week in Toronto, Ontario.

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.

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