We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Senior Project Manager/Leader for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take complete ownership of the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex, and high-risk I&IT transformational initiatives within the broader public sector healthcare domain.
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As a senior leader, you will seamlessly connect clinical business needs with technical delivery, navigating complex multi-stakeholder landscapes. You will be responsible for executive relationship management, rigid fiscal control over large project budgets, and the cross-functional orchestration of technical teams, clinicians, and vendors to ensure successful system implementations on time and within scope.
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 8 months (with a potential for extension)
Advantages
Sector Leadership: Drive a high-visibility, high-profile transformational I&IT initiative within public sector healthcare.
Complex Multi-Stakeholder Scope: Expand your portfolio by leading projects that directly unify clinical operations, business strategies, and corporate IT.
Advanced Project Tooling: Gain deep, enterprise-level experience utilizing robust project management systems such as Planview, Jira, Confluence, and MS Project.
Contract Growth Potential: Establish yourself within a major program footprint featuring viable prospects for extension past the initial 8 months.
Responsibilities
Project Governance & Methodologies: Lead large-scale, complex, and high-risk I&IT transformational projects, ensuring all deliverables meet requirements on time, scope, and budget while adhering to standard project management frameworks.
Stakeholder & Clinical Alignment: Partner with clinicians and senior healthcare sector stakeholders to identify business needs, translating them into concise technical requirements under tight timelines.
Budget & Financial Oversight: Develop and manage complex project budgets across multiple funding channels, maintaining tight fiscal control, forecasting, and continuous cost reconciliation within tools like Planview.
Resource & Team Management: Identify cross-functional team members, clarify roles, resolve resource conflicts, and set clear performance expectations for both internal staff and fee-for-service consultants.
Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify potential risk events, maintain detailed issue logs, and articulate prioritized risks to senior executives alongside recommended mitigation strategies.
Artifact & Schedule Development: Create and update core project artifacts including Project Charters, Integrated Project Management Plans (IPP), variance analysis reports, and detailed dependency-mapped schedules.
Change Management & Adoption: Prepare business transformation and system adoption plans, orchestrating testing and change management workflows to overcome organizational resistance.
Operational Transition: Manage the transition to operations, ensuring support models and future service frameworks are fully documented and seamlessly executed.
Executive Presentation: Establish and participate in steering committees and stakeholder forums, providing high-level progress dashboards and presentations to decision-makers.
Qualifications
Public Sector Healthcare Experience
Domain Expertise: 5+ years of dedicated experience working with federal, provincial, or broader public-sector healthcare providers.
Framework Knowledge: Strong familiarity with Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts, gating processes, Unified I&IT Project Methodologies, and digital health standards.
Clinical Setting Success: Proven track record of operating within complex IT health-related environments and collaborating with delivery partners to deploy technology in clinical settings.
Technical & Project Management Capabilities
Transformational Leadership: 5 to 9 years of experience leading large I&IT transformational initiatives with complex stakeholder webs and high-visibility impacts.
Dual Methodology Mastery: Practical experience applying both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies to the design, development, and implementation of complex applications.
Requirements & Scheduling: Demonstrated success working with clinicians, business analysts, and designers to extract business needs and map them into comprehensive project schedules, resource allocations, and integrated plans.
Project Tooling: Hands-on experience managing project data, backlogs, and financial systems using tools like MS Project, Planview, Jira, and Confluence.
Core Soft Skills
Communication & Presentation: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to tailor executive reporting or technical options to diverse audiences.
Facilitation & Negotiation: Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills to resolve project conflicts, address scheduling friction, and build rapport among competing stakeholder groups.
Analytical Problem Solving: Robust critical thinking, troubleshooting, and organizational skills with a history of hitting strict deadlines under pressure.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior 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 and strategic Senior Project Manager/Leader for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take complete ownership of the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex, and high-risk I&IT transformational initiatives within the broader public sector healthcare domain.
As a senior leader, you will seamlessly connect clinical business needs with technical delivery, navigating complex multi-stakeholder landscapes. You will be responsible for executive relationship management, rigid fiscal control over large project budgets, and the cross-functional orchestration of technical teams, clinicians, and vendors to ensure successful system implementations on time and within scope.
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 8 months (with a potential for extension)
Advantages
Sector Leadership: Drive a high-visibility, high-profile transformational I&IT initiative within public sector healthcare.
Complex Multi-Stakeholder Scope: Expand your portfolio by leading projects that directly unify clinical operations, business strategies, and corporate IT.
...
Advanced Project Tooling: Gain deep, enterprise-level experience utilizing robust project management systems such as Planview, Jira, Confluence, and MS Project.
Contract Growth Potential: Establish yourself within a major program footprint featuring viable prospects for extension past the initial 8 months.
Responsibilities
Project Governance & Methodologies: Lead large-scale, complex, and high-risk I&IT transformational projects, ensuring all deliverables meet requirements on time, scope, and budget while adhering to standard project management frameworks.
Stakeholder & Clinical Alignment: Partner with clinicians and senior healthcare sector stakeholders to identify business needs, translating them into concise technical requirements under tight timelines.
Budget & Financial Oversight: Develop and manage complex project budgets across multiple funding channels, maintaining tight fiscal control, forecasting, and continuous cost reconciliation within tools like Planview.
Resource & Team Management: Identify cross-functional team members, clarify roles, resolve resource conflicts, and set clear performance expectations for both internal staff and fee-for-service consultants.
Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify potential risk events, maintain detailed issue logs, and articulate prioritized risks to senior executives alongside recommended mitigation strategies.
Artifact & Schedule Development: Create and update core project artifacts including Project Charters, Integrated Project Management Plans (IPP), variance analysis reports, and detailed dependency-mapped schedules.
Change Management & Adoption: Prepare business transformation and system adoption plans, orchestrating testing and change management workflows to overcome organizational resistance.
Operational Transition: Manage the transition to operations, ensuring support models and future service frameworks are fully documented and seamlessly executed.
Executive Presentation: Establish and participate in steering committees and stakeholder forums, providing high-level progress dashboards and presentations to decision-makers.
Qualifications
Public Sector Healthcare Experience
Domain Expertise: 5+ years of dedicated experience working with federal, provincial, or broader public-sector healthcare providers.
Framework Knowledge: Strong familiarity with Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts, gating processes, Unified I&IT Project Methodologies, and digital health standards.
Clinical Setting Success: Proven track record of operating within complex IT health-related environments and collaborating with delivery partners to deploy technology in clinical settings.
Technical & Project Management Capabilities
Transformational Leadership: 5 to 9 years of experience leading large I&IT transformational initiatives with complex stakeholder webs and high-visibility impacts.
Dual Methodology Mastery: Practical experience applying both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies to the design, development, and implementation of complex applications.
Requirements & Scheduling: Demonstrated success working with clinicians, business analysts, and designers to extract business needs and map them into comprehensive project schedules, resource allocations, and integrated plans.
Project Tooling: Hands-on experience managing project data, backlogs, and financial systems using tools like MS Project, Planview, Jira, and Confluence.
Core Soft Skills
Communication & Presentation: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to tailor executive reporting or technical options to diverse audiences.
Facilitation & Negotiation: Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills to resolve project conflicts, address scheduling friction, and build rapport among competing stakeholder groups.
Analytical Problem Solving: Robust critical thinking, troubleshooting, and organizational skills with a history of hitting strict deadlines under pressure.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior 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.
show more
