Job at a glance
Our client is a leader in business intelligence and analytics. Their software provides one integrated process for analyzing data from every source and gaining the predictive power to drive change at every level. This is your chance to join this great organization which has been included on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for seven straight years. They have selected ROSS ( www.getROSS.com ) to help them find a Senior Project Manager for Ottawa.
ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), complimented by leading edge open-source HRIS software. As a Senior Project Manager within Professional Services, you will be spending 50% of your time driving consulting revenue and 50% of your time managing projects.
Therefore, you must have a great track record being able to identify your external clients’ problems, offer solutions and increase revenue. You easily establish rapport and your clients consider you to be a “trusted advisor”. The projects range in size from $30k-$500k and you’ll be involved in about 4-6 projects concurrently. You Will... · Build new and leverages existing client contacts to identify new business opportunities for our client.
· Provide Project Management for large-sized client projects and project teams, and/or internal projects as assigned, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery, and high-quality deliverables. · Ensure that all internal and external projects are completely and accurately represented in Changepoint, and all other financial and reporting systems. · Continuous improvement of our client’s solution delivery capabilities and sharing of related knowledge and best practices with the PM community.
· Assist in service estimation and solution sales processes. · Responsible for all aspects of assigned projects, including management of scope, budget, risk, resources, plan/timeline, internal communications and external client communications. Leads project teams and is responsible and accountable for overall success of project. · Determine staffing needs for projects, and works with resource management and other project managers to coordinate assignment of staff to projects.
This may include working with a small number of subcontractors and/or partners in a relatively simple fashion as needed. · Encourage and foster individual professional growth, as well as teamwork among project staff. · Work with pre-sales, Business Unit Manager, and Legal to prepare services contracts. · Ensure all assigned projects comply to our client’s processes (e.g. as documented within our client’s Canada PMO).
· Participate in, or leads, knowledge-sharing activities and makes contributions to knowledge-base. This may include working with and/or providing presentations to Services, Marketing, Sales, and Pre-sales groups/resources within this company. · May assist or shadow other Project Managers in large projects. · Ensure internal and external client, escalation procedures are followed in a timely manner for prompt problem resolution on projects.
· Proactively maintains an understanding of our client’s solutions and architectures, including competitive analysis. Develops a deeper level of understanding as needed to meet project requirements. This may include building and maintaining strong ties with other corporate resources such as R&D, Marketing, driver teams and Technical Support. · Work with pre-sales to help qualify solution sales opportunities.
Provides services time/effort estimates and project plans for use in proposals. · Provide client presentations regarding our client’s methodologies, value proposition, and project management processes. · Provide input into consulting group processes and procedures. · Mentor other Project Managers as assigned. · Increased responsibility for incorporating subcontractors, partner resources and partner