We are seeking a highly accomplished Intermediate Project Manager/Leader to drive the planning, delivery, and execution of large-scale, transformational enterprise IT projects. In this role, you will take full operational ownership of complex, multi-departmental initiatives, guiding cross-functional technical teams through the complete project l
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ifecycle. Operating within a collaborative matrix environment, you will manage large project budgets, establish rigid risk mitigation strategies, and coordinate major technology procurements. You will act as a vital bridge between technical development squads, global vendor partners, and corporate business lines to ensure digital transformation initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and under strict financial controls.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - 3 days in office: Mondays and Wednesdays are mandatory anchor days)
Duration: 6-month contract.
Advantages
High-Impact Portfolio: Lead highly visible, transformational enterprise IT initiatives across multiple business divisions.
End-to-End Procurement Scope: Command the complete procurement and sourcing track for tier-one technology investments and complex software platforms.
Strategic Advisory Track: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, directly influencing modern technical roadmaps and digital change strategies.
Elite Agile & Standard Integration: Mature your professional profile by combining classic project governance with modern, collaborative sprint frameworks.
Responsibilities
Project Governance & Lifecycle Ownership: Lead and manage enterprise-level technology projects, developing project charters, detailed delivery schedules, comprehensive budgets, and robust quality assurance frameworks.
Technology Procurement & Contract Management: Drive end-to-end procurement cycles for sophisticated software solutions, developing robust procurement strategies, managing requests for proposals (RFPs), orchestrating vendor evaluations, and negotiating commercial contracts.
Contractual Document Engineering: Lead the preparation, structural review, and execution of central contractual materials, including REOI, RFI, RFP, RFQ, Statements of Work (SOW), Memorandums of Understanding (MOU), and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
Financial Control & Resource Forecasting: Establish, monitor, and manage multi-divisional project budgets, driving precise financial controls, accurate forecasting, and absolute alignment with corporate financial policies.
Risk & Issue Lifecycle Mitigation: Proactively identify, assess, and catalog system and operational risks, establishing concrete mitigation plays and accelerating the resolution of issues that threaten critical path targets.
Technical Delivery Coordination: Direct matrix-allocated teams of technical engineers, contractors, consultants, and corporate representatives to execute delivery plans across application development and infrastructure implementation tracks.
Organizational Change Management: Develop and deploy structured change management plans to ensure seamless user adoption, data migration workflows, and business process transitions across multiple divisions.
Executive Advisory & Telemetry Reporting: Produce high-level progress dashboards, budget metrics, and risk reports, presenting project statuses directly to multi-layered executive networks, steering committees, and architecture review boards.
Vendor Performance Supervision: Oversee third-party vendor delivery metrics, ensuring SLA commitments are fulfilled, scope revisions are documented cleanly, and continuous service improvements are realized.
Qualifications
Core Project Management Credential: Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strictly required.
Enterprise Delivery Seniority: Extensive, progressive professional experience managing all phases of transformational, enterprise-wide IT projects within complex multi-departmental or matrix-allocated environments.
Comprehensive Project Control Toolkit: Proven experience taking ownership of budget tracking, timeline scheduling, scope definitions, resource estimation, risk matrices, and critical path identification.
Procurement & Vendor Management Fluency: Demonstrated experience handling high-value technology procurements, vendor negotiations, and overseeing contract lifecycle metrics (SOW, RFP, SLA).
Collaborative Toolchain Literacy: Direct experience managing project documentation, tracking, and scheduling within matrix setups using tools such as Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, SharePoint, or equivalent utilities.
Technical Team Leadership: Proven background managing and directing technical project delivery teams across application development, data migrations, or core infrastructure deployments.
Communication & Synthesis Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation capabilities, with an established history of presenting project status decks, option analyses, and financial alignment metrics to executive stakeholders.
Education: Post-secondary education in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent approved combination of formal education and progressive project management experience.
Nice to Have:
Active Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credential.
Prior project management experience delivering large-scale technology solutions within a public sector framework or corporate infrastructure network.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Intermediate Project Manager/Leader" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a highly accomplished Intermediate Project Manager/Leader to drive the planning, delivery, and execution of large-scale, transformational enterprise IT projects. In this role, you will take full operational ownership of complex, multi-departmental initiatives, guiding cross-functional technical teams through the complete project lifecycle. Operating within a collaborative matrix environment, you will manage large project budgets, establish rigid risk mitigation strategies, and coordinate major technology procurements. You will act as a vital bridge between technical development squads, global vendor partners, and corporate business lines to ensure digital transformation initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and under strict financial controls.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - 3 days in office: Mondays and Wednesdays are mandatory anchor days)
Duration: 6-month contract.
Advantages
High-Impact Portfolio: Lead highly visible, transformational enterprise IT initiatives across multiple business divisions.
End-to-End Procurement Scope: Command the complete procurement and sourcing track for tier-one technology investments and complex software platforms.
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Strategic Advisory Track: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, directly influencing modern technical roadmaps and digital change strategies.
Elite Agile & Standard Integration: Mature your professional profile by combining classic project governance with modern, collaborative sprint frameworks.
Responsibilities
Project Governance & Lifecycle Ownership: Lead and manage enterprise-level technology projects, developing project charters, detailed delivery schedules, comprehensive budgets, and robust quality assurance frameworks.
Technology Procurement & Contract Management: Drive end-to-end procurement cycles for sophisticated software solutions, developing robust procurement strategies, managing requests for proposals (RFPs), orchestrating vendor evaluations, and negotiating commercial contracts.
Contractual Document Engineering: Lead the preparation, structural review, and execution of central contractual materials, including REOI, RFI, RFP, RFQ, Statements of Work (SOW), Memorandums of Understanding (MOU), and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
Financial Control & Resource Forecasting: Establish, monitor, and manage multi-divisional project budgets, driving precise financial controls, accurate forecasting, and absolute alignment with corporate financial policies.
Risk & Issue Lifecycle Mitigation: Proactively identify, assess, and catalog system and operational risks, establishing concrete mitigation plays and accelerating the resolution of issues that threaten critical path targets.
Technical Delivery Coordination: Direct matrix-allocated teams of technical engineers, contractors, consultants, and corporate representatives to execute delivery plans across application development and infrastructure implementation tracks.
Organizational Change Management: Develop and deploy structured change management plans to ensure seamless user adoption, data migration workflows, and business process transitions across multiple divisions.
Executive Advisory & Telemetry Reporting: Produce high-level progress dashboards, budget metrics, and risk reports, presenting project statuses directly to multi-layered executive networks, steering committees, and architecture review boards.
Vendor Performance Supervision: Oversee third-party vendor delivery metrics, ensuring SLA commitments are fulfilled, scope revisions are documented cleanly, and continuous service improvements are realized.
Qualifications
Core Project Management Credential: Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strictly required.
Enterprise Delivery Seniority: Extensive, progressive professional experience managing all phases of transformational, enterprise-wide IT projects within complex multi-departmental or matrix-allocated environments.
Comprehensive Project Control Toolkit: Proven experience taking ownership of budget tracking, timeline scheduling, scope definitions, resource estimation, risk matrices, and critical path identification.
Procurement & Vendor Management Fluency: Demonstrated experience handling high-value technology procurements, vendor negotiations, and overseeing contract lifecycle metrics (SOW, RFP, SLA).
Collaborative Toolchain Literacy: Direct experience managing project documentation, tracking, and scheduling within matrix setups using tools such as Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, SharePoint, or equivalent utilities.
Technical Team Leadership: Proven background managing and directing technical project delivery teams across application development, data migrations, or core infrastructure deployments.
Communication & Synthesis Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation capabilities, with an established history of presenting project status decks, option analyses, and financial alignment metrics to executive stakeholders.
Education: Post-secondary education in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent approved combination of formal education and progressive project management experience.
Nice to Have:
Active Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credential.
Prior project management experience delivering large-scale technology solutions within a public sector framework or corporate infrastructure network.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Intermediate Project Manager/Leader" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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