Project Manager
McCain Foods
- Florenceville-Bristol, NB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Project Planning and Process Management
- Work amongst a team of Project Managers supporting waterfall and agile projects while sharing and driving agile ways of thinking and working
- Understand and document a thorough understanding of the business outcomes
- Monitor and control assigned programs and project execution on time, budget, and quality
- The Project Manager must be able to build relationships with cross functional team members and stakeholders.
- Define projects and plans using short development cycles while focused on timely and quality delivery by team
- Manages the day-to-day work activities of team members, organizing and coordinating the team, and leading project status, daily huddles, and working meetings
- Identifies and resolves project issues and mitigates risks, manages deviations from plans, provides progress reports as needed
- Champions ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for agile project management and improve team efficiency and effectiveness
- Manage contract objectives and contract budgets
- Develop regular reporting on contract milestones, execution, and risk
- Ensure that vendors are performing in accordance with contractual obligations
- Ability to build relationships with cross functional team members and stakeholders.
- Responsible for stakeholder management, collaboration, and execution approach
- Closes any communication gaps with key constituents outside of the team
- Leads change management in a fast-paced, agile work environment. Leads team towards swift and clear decision making, pivoting, plans, and activating the team members simultaneously with new direction
- Promotes empowerment of the team, ensures that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution. Helps to maintain entrepreneurial culture of team
- Assists in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; and mentoring and developing team members
- Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the program objectives, inspire, and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business strategy
- Strong business acumen, including industry- and domain-specific knowledge of the organization and its business units. Familiarity with industry digital trends and innovation
- Influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with high competition for resources
- Excellent analytical, strategic planning and execution skills
- Ability to follow the PMO processes, perform administrative tasks and have the skills to take on the role of agile Scrum Master
- Ability to develop programs and deliver them with financial and resource constraints
- Knowledge of project planning tools, such as Microsoft Project with evidence of practical application
- Knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
- Exceptional organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize and direct team to let go of unnecessary or distracting work
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with others as well as manage conflict
- Comfortable navigating corporate politics and resolving conflicting priorities
- Comfort with quickly changing priorities and a high level of adaptability and flexibility while maintaining the “big picture” view
- Effective change manager, attention to detail, problem solving skills, enthusiasm, assertiveness, and ability to be hands on as needed
- Able to quickly develop deep understanding of McCain's business from a cultural & operational perspective
- Minimum 10 or more years of experience in IT business/industry with Project Management experience
- Able to think nimble and out of the box to drive improvements within existing methodologies
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required with PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) is considered an asset
- Strong communication and ability to manage multiple internal and external organizational relationships all while driving results
- Five to seven years in diverse roles with increasing leadership responsibilities across major projects and programs
- Substantial leadership roles and collaboration experience
- Demonstrated experience in managing “upward” among senior leadership and ensure accountability of team
- Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams
- Key internal relationships: PMO Portfolio and Project Managers, VP Global Technology Product Solutions, VP Data Analytics, Regional HR Teams, Global Leadership Team, Corporate Communications
- Travel: It will be required - small amounts as needed
- Job is primarily performed in a hybrid working model
Division: Global Technology
Department: Project Management
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : Ontario : TorontoCompany: McCain Foods (Canada)