Senior Project Manager
Welcome Home!
We’re more than Canada’s largest independent hardware and building supplies retailer—we’re part of communities across the nation.
Drive Project Excellence
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering the objectives of a program/project(s) as defined by the Project Sponsor. Led by the Director, Enterprise Project Management Office this opportunity will suit someone who has excellent project management and people skills.
Ready to make an impact? Here’s how:
- Work with the project team to clearly define the project scope and manage any changes through a formal change control process to keep the project on track and within the agreed parameters.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plan(s) to track progress. Use appropriate techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and cost.
- Estimate project work efforts. Develop the project plan, schedule, and budget, and obtain agreement with key managerial stakeholders, while controlling quality, project tracking versus planned and taking.
- Negotiate with resource managers to staff the project, also manage relationships with external software, hardware, or people resources.
- Communicate plans, actions, project status, while continuously monitoring and addressing risks and issues as they arise with key stakeholders in a timely fashion.
- Manage the assigned budget and shared budget insights through regular reporting.
- Ensure all technical, business and people issues, that impact the project, are properly resolved.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plan(s) to track progress. Use appropriate techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and cost.
- Contribute to the development of new ideas and approaches to improve workflow.
We’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated project management competencies. Experience working on medium to large business/system projects meeting time and quality targets/standards.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)
- Excellent understanding of project management methodology, including planning, estimating, executing, and controlling. Proven experience managing an Information Technology project.
- PMP and/or PRINCE2 designation would be an asset. Proven experience with waterfall, iterative waterfall, and agile scrum project execution would be an asset.
- Ability to balance risk, cost, and benefit.
- Results oriented with a focus on quality. Creative thinker with the ability to see the big picture.
- Excellent people skills and written and oral communication skills. Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle multiple demands and competing priorities.
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable while operating independently and as part of a team.
- Customer service orientation required.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills.
- The ability to be onsite three days a week at our corporate office in St. Jacobs, to accommodate our hybrid working model.
How we’ll make you feel at Home
Our Team Members enjoy life at Home with our strong culture of support and inclusion, excellent benefits, and a team that always has your back. You will receive:
- Competitive earnings opportunity.
- Annual Incentive/Bonus Program.
- Comprehensive Benefits Program including:
- Health, Dental, Vision, Paramedical, Disability coverage, Out of Country Travel Insurance, Life Insurance, Employee Family Assistance Program.
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan with Company Match, and choice of contribution level.
- Group RRSP.
- Discounts from our corporate retail stores.
- Home & Auto Insurance discounts.
- Competitive vacation time.
- Personal and sick time.
- Employee Discount Program through Venngo WorkPerks.
Bring your unique skills, thrive with interesting and challenging work, and experience what it’s like at Home. Apply today - this is a great opportunity to join a proudly Canadian company that is 100% ready to help you build your future.
Home Hardware recognizes the value of a diverse team. We believe that different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences make us stronger as an organization. Applicants representing the full diversity of communities in Canada are encouraged to apply with confidence. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.
Canadians call us Home Hardware. We call it Home.