Position: Project Manager
Position Type: Permanent
Location: Vancouver, BC

Job Description:
As Project Manager, you will use your strong organizational and communication skills to plan and manage the execution of campaign projects, providing direction and guidance to all the cross-functional teams within the consulting group both local and international to deliver results. You will work with our cross-functional teams to implement projects using the methodologies and tools in place, as well as work with the relevant executive team to develop and refine process.

Must Have Skills and Requirements:  

• Coordinate the organization of project activities ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget constraints.
• Successfully manage a number of projects simultaneously.
• Act as the primary liaison between all team members assigned to a project, IT and business
• Coordinate all aspects of project delivery including defining project scope, specifying deliverables, estimating project duration, effort and cost, managing project budget, creating detailed project plans and managing change requests.
• Ensure project success by driving day-to-day operations through the application of sound project management principles and methodologies.
• Maintain regular communications with the executive, active team and business stakeholders to ensure necessary and appropriate steps are taken to resolve difficulties, which may impede progress or compromise achievement of project’s objectives.
• Maintain a detailed status, activities and issues reports on each project to present to the executive and major project stakeholders.
• Ensure each project team has established meaningful, key metrics that properly reflect the performance of the team and indicates progress towards objectives. Drives recommendations on project prioritization.
• Provide feedback to executive team and project stakeholders from a post-completion analysis of all projects.
• Work with the relevant cross-functional teams to define and update standards and processes and contribute to continuous improvements within the teams.
• 7+ years of corporate project management experience
• Conversant in various tools for statistical analysis, management, project planning, and time tracking including MS Project and MS Excel
• Detail oriented with excellent analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous
• Exhibit excellent organizational skills and teamwork skills
• Proven oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task and work to tight timelines
• Desired Skills, Experience and Education
• University degree in business considered an asset.
• PMP certification considered an asset.
• Intimate knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Leadership and expertise in team building

Interested candidates please forward your resume in MS Word format, including bullet points that demonstrate your personal results/contributions and major accomplishments to wendy@itmindfinders.com.

Due to the high response of applicants, IT MindFinders regrets that we will not be able to personally reply to each applicant.