CTC007831 - IT Senior Project Director

Industry Sector: Bancaire/Banking

Job Type: Contract

Duration: One year

Work Mode: Mixed

Description

Rate: Flexible Rate
Remote work: Hybrid, 40% on-site at the downtown Montreal office (2 days per week)
Bilingualism: French required; English not mandatory but a significant asset

Come work in multidisciplinary teams that manage and deliver business and technology projects for the Financial Markets, Wealth Management, Commercial, or Personal Banking sectors.

Your daily responsibilities:

• Manage and implement large-scale business and technology projects prioritized by the business sector, fostering a motivating climate and demonstrating effective leadership.

• Align a project plan involving multiple contributing teams, prioritize their activities and commitments, and establish close monitoring of their deliverables.

• Oversee the alignment of key deliverables from contributing teams (e.g., architecture, analysis, testing, production deployment).

• Manage stakeholders and maintain good relationships with internal and external collaborators.

• Diagnose problematic situations, intervene, and resolve complex issues by implementing solutions.

• Initiate changes and encourage rethinking of practices to improve continuously and meet objectives.

• Optimize the continuous use of project resources to meet business sector objectives.

• Identify and manage inherent project risks and issues constantly and proactively.

• Produce various reports to monitor project progress and provide status updates while tailoring communication to the audience.

• Ensure appropriate communication channels are established and maintain consistent communication with all stakeholders.

Required Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree related to the field and 10 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience.

• At least 7 years of experience as a project manager for large-scale projects in large enterprises.

• Experience managing complex projects and multidisciplinary teams.

• Experience delivering technology projects in the contact center domain.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodology.

• Rigorous, results-oriented, with negotiation skills.

• Ability to simplify and explain business challenges, risks, and objectives.

• Strong communication and synthesis skills at all levels of the organization.

• Influential leadership with strong political awareness.

• Effective collaboration and accountability.

• Strong adaptability to change.