Sr Project Manager

Sr Project Manager

Location: Montréal QC

The Senior Project Manager (Sr. PM) is a key member of the Technology Project Management Office (PMO) and is responsible for leading complex, cross-functional technology projects with a strong emphasis on data, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives. This role operates within both waterfall and adaptive delivery frameworks, and partners closely with technology, data, digital, and business stakeholders to ensure successful execution and measurable business outcomes. The Sr. Project Manager provides leadership across the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through delivery, adoption, and closure, while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, governance, and strategic priorities.

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The MTY Group is a family whose heart beats to the rhythm of its brands and its employees.

Over the past 40 years, EXCELLENCE, ENTHUSIASM and INNOVATION have led us to success.

Today, we continue to look for talented professionals who want to work for a company that will offer them opportunities for growth and many rewarding experiences.

MTY offers its employees dynamic, unique and valuable professional experience.

Benefits:

• 3 weeks of vacation
• 5 days of flexible sick leaves
• $2000 reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education requirements
• Flexible working hours
• Half-day Fridays year-round
• Company health and dental plans, with an additional $300 personal wellness expense account
• Employee assistance program with access to mental health, legal, and financial counseling services
• Employee profit-sharing plan with employer contribution
• Monthly company-wide recognition awards
• Company social events, including webinars, town halls, and team activities
• Casual dress code
• Free parking at the office

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent technology initiatives, with a primary focus on data platforms, analytics, digital applications, and customer-facing or internal digital solutions.
• Provideleadership to and facilitate the work of cross-functional projectteams by clarifying projectobjectives and definingtactics necessary to accomplish these objectives.
• Establishstructure of the project, including identification and allocation of resources and creation of project plans; ensure that plans receive appropriate review, authorization, and funding.
• Development of project budgetsand integration of project costs into the organization-level budgetand financial forecast.
• Track project activity and expenditures against plans; communicate effectively through multiple channels to sponsorsand key stakeholders; manage externaldelivery partners whererequired.
• Continuously assess project risk factors and recommend coursesof action to mitigate risk.
• Lead and participate in developing, maintaining and evolving standards, tools, templates and documented processesfor process improvement and project governance.
• Perform otherduties as assignedto ensure the success of the team and the organization.
• Assist teams in evaluating and establishing their capacity to inform projectplans as needed.
• Provide leadership in the development, implementation, and governance of project management best practices at MTY.
• Lead and participate in developing, maintaining and evolving standards, tools, templates and documented processesfor process improvement and project governance.
• Identify, manage, escalate, and resolve project risks and issues in collaboration with key stakeholders and team.
• Demonstrated experience working with and leadingmatrixed teams
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
• Ability to embraceand lead changein a growing organization

Skills and abilities

• Demonstrated experience managing data, analytics, digital, or platform modernization projects.
• Deep understanding of and proven experience in a wide variety of project management methodologies, frameworks, tools, and techniques, including agile delivery frameworks and hybrid models.
• Plan and align : Plan and prioritizes work to meet commitments alignedwith organizational and program goals.
• Manage complexity : Make sense of complex high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems to include processanalysis and improvement.

• Action oriented : Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency,high energy and enthusiasm.
• Communicating effectively : Developand deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding.
• Customer focus : Build strong internaland external relationships to deliver partner-centric solutions.
• Drive results : Consistent achieve resultseven under toughcircumstances.
• Collaborate: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Instill trust : Gain the confidence and trust of others throughhonesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Manage ambiguity : Operateefficiently when thingsare not certain,or the way forward is not clear.
• Balance stakeholders : Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Ensures accountability : Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Manages conflict : Handlingconflict situations effectively, with a minimumof noise.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’sdegree in business, engineering, or similardiscipline required; advanceddegree, professional certifications, or equivalent work experience strongly preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Minimumseven years of practical projectand program delivery experience in program/project management with demonstrated results.
• PMP and Agile professional certifications are highly desirable (e.g. PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, Certified Scrum Master).
• Experience working within an enterprise Technology PMO.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, data warehouses/lakes, analytics tools, and digital application architectures.
• Strong technical skills and businessacumen.

Please note that any offer of employment will be conditional upon a background check, including a criminal record check.

*The majority of our clients and a large proportion of our employees are outside Quebec*.