We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Project Manager/Leader to drive cross-ministry governance, strategic planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting. Operating within the discovery phase of a high-profile modernization initiative, you will act as the primary liaison between business partners, IT squads, and senior leadership. You will take technical and operational ownership of the project lifecycle, ensuring seamless collaboration across all workstreams to secure the successful launch of a major enterprise I&IT solution.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 8-month contract.
Advantages
Strategic Gateway Authority: Take absolute charge of a major enterprise software initiative right at the high-impact discovery and foundational planning phase.
High-Level Governance Visibility: Command direct exposure to corporate funding matrices, steer complex steering frameworks, and manage enterprise artifact lifecycles inside Planview.
Collaborative Onsite Synergy: Leverage a fully onsite workspace model built for real-time risk triage, instant stakeholder calibration, and accelerated consensus-building.
Decoupled Strategic Canvas: Expand your project management portfolio by balancing complex fiscal procurement planning with advanced organizational change management.
Responsibilities
Project Lifecycle Leadership: Provide senior project management leadership from concept through discovery, ensuring complex deliverables meet precise quality benchmarks, timelines, and budget constraints.
Governance & Gateway Management: Direct project governance submission, tracking, and milestone management via enterprise software platforms like Planview, strictly aligning with the unified project management (UPM) gateway process.
Funding & Strategic Planning Submissions: Lead the development, structural coordination, and tracking of Treasury Board/Management Board of Cabinet (TB/MBC) submissions and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables.
Schedule & Triage Engineering: Construct and maintain detailed master project schedules, baseline milestones, and risk/issue tracking logs to proactively catch and mitigate project slippage.
Procurement & Future Sourcing Coordination: Coordinate initial procurement activities and build strategic documentation to support upcoming Request for Bids (RFB) planning phases.
Executive Briefings & Presentations: Prepare highly polished, executive-ready presentation materials, business cases, and options briefs for senior decision-makers.
Change Management Deployment: Apply structured change management principles and methodologies to address culture gaps, smooth the adoption curve, and minimize friction between business and IT divisions.
Stakeholder Alignment: Conduct deep-dive walkthroughs and steering discussions with a diverse grid of cross-functional stakeholders to resolve conflicting requirements.
Qualifications
Project Management Seniority: 5+ years of progressive professional experience leading, planning, and executing complex, enterprise-tier IT applications or modernizations (Strictly Required).
Specialized Domain Expertise: Direct, practical knowledge of business systems and calculation applications engineered to process annual funding allocations or financial distributions (Strictly Required).
Enterprise Funding & Strategy Prowess: Proven track record leading, authoring, and managing formal corporate treasury, executive funding boards, or strategic planning process submissions (Strictly Required).
Project Governance Tool Stack Fluency: Expert-level command of project lifecycle management frameworks, corporate project gating methodologies, and tracking tools like Planview (Strictly Required).
Procurement & Sourcing Literacy: Verified capability coordinating early-stage procurement milestones, market research pipelines, and future RFB/RFP roadmap planning (Strictly Required).
Change Management Mastery: Strong functional knowledge of industry-standard change management methodologies to successfully mitigate people-side delivery risks.
Soft Skills: Superior analytical reasoning, presentation design, and consultative communication mechanics, with a demonstrated ability to independently facilitate complex steering committee workshops.
Nice to Have:
Prior professional experience delivering complex infrastructure or application architectures within a large public sector organization of equivalent size and complexity to the Ontario Public Service.
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 Senior Project Manager/Leader to drive cross-ministry governance, strategic planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting. Operating within the discovery phase of a high-profile modernization initiative, you will act as the primary liaison between business partners, IT squads, and senior leadership. You will take technical and operational ownership of the project lifecycle, ensuring seamless collaboration across all workstreams to secure the successful launch of a major enterprise I&IT solution.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 8-month contract.
Advantages
Strategic Gateway Authority: Take absolute charge of a major enterprise software initiative right at the high-impact discovery and foundational planning phase.
High-Level Governance Visibility: Command direct exposure to corporate funding matrices, steer complex steering frameworks, and manage enterprise artifact lifecycles inside Planview.
Collaborative Onsite Synergy: Leverage a fully onsite workspace model built for real-time risk triage, instant stakeholder calibration, and accelerated consensus-building.
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Decoupled Strategic Canvas: Expand your project management portfolio by balancing complex fiscal procurement planning with advanced organizational change management.
Responsibilities
Project Lifecycle Leadership: Provide senior project management leadership from concept through discovery, ensuring complex deliverables meet precise quality benchmarks, timelines, and budget constraints.
Governance & Gateway Management: Direct project governance submission, tracking, and milestone management via enterprise software platforms like Planview, strictly aligning with the unified project management (UPM) gateway process.
Funding & Strategic Planning Submissions: Lead the development, structural coordination, and tracking of Treasury Board/Management Board of Cabinet (TB/MBC) submissions and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables.
Schedule & Triage Engineering: Construct and maintain detailed master project schedules, baseline milestones, and risk/issue tracking logs to proactively catch and mitigate project slippage.
Procurement & Future Sourcing Coordination: Coordinate initial procurement activities and build strategic documentation to support upcoming Request for Bids (RFB) planning phases.
Executive Briefings & Presentations: Prepare highly polished, executive-ready presentation materials, business cases, and options briefs for senior decision-makers.
Change Management Deployment: Apply structured change management principles and methodologies to address culture gaps, smooth the adoption curve, and minimize friction between business and IT divisions.
Stakeholder Alignment: Conduct deep-dive walkthroughs and steering discussions with a diverse grid of cross-functional stakeholders to resolve conflicting requirements.
Qualifications
Project Management Seniority: 5+ years of progressive professional experience leading, planning, and executing complex, enterprise-tier IT applications or modernizations (Strictly Required).
Specialized Domain Expertise: Direct, practical knowledge of business systems and calculation applications engineered to process annual funding allocations or financial distributions (Strictly Required).
Enterprise Funding & Strategy Prowess: Proven track record leading, authoring, and managing formal corporate treasury, executive funding boards, or strategic planning process submissions (Strictly Required).
Project Governance Tool Stack Fluency: Expert-level command of project lifecycle management frameworks, corporate project gating methodologies, and tracking tools like Planview (Strictly Required).
Procurement & Sourcing Literacy: Verified capability coordinating early-stage procurement milestones, market research pipelines, and future RFB/RFP roadmap planning (Strictly Required).
Change Management Mastery: Strong functional knowledge of industry-standard change management methodologies to successfully mitigate people-side delivery risks.
Soft Skills: Superior analytical reasoning, presentation design, and consultative communication mechanics, with a demonstrated ability to independently facilitate complex steering committee workshops.
Nice to Have:
Prior professional experience delivering complex infrastructure or application architectures within a large public sector organization of equivalent size and complexity to the Ontario Public Service.
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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