Title: Project Manager
Location: Calgary, Canada
Job Type: Contract
Pay Rate: $90-$120/hr (incorporated)
Work Authorization: Must be eligible to work in Canada without sponsorship.
Job Description: The Project Manager (OpenInvoice) will report to a manager in the Corporate PMO, working closely with business and functional areas to provide comprehensive project planning, management, coordination, and execution for assigned projects. The ideal candidate will use their domain knowledge and project management skills to coordinate resources, timelines, and schedules, deliver status reports, and manage changes to project plans.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead complex transformation projects and business process/continuous improvement projects.
- Collaborate with and influence large stakeholder groups from various functions and businesses.
- Communicate effectively with the CPMO and business leadership team.
- Manage and motivate a diverse team, including business, functional, and IT staff, contractors, and system integrators.
- Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with clients, teams, and stakeholders.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using the CPMO Delivery Execution Framework.
- Track project milestones and deliverables, ensuring corrective action is taken when necessary to improve performance.
- Manage risks to resolve issues/conflicts within the project.
- Lead day-to-day activities of the project/program team, ensuring accurate and timely completion of project/program results.
- Identify skill gaps within the team and implement performance improvements.
- Partner with Corporate Change Management to design and implement appropriate OCM/Business Readiness strategies/plans.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
Technical Competencies:
- Project delivery
- Organizational change management
- Measurement development, deployment, reporting
- Communications
- Consulting and coaching
- Leadership, mentorship, and people development
- Microsoft Office Suite skills
- Primavera P6
Behavioral Competencies:
- Strategic thinking
- Planning, organizing, and prioritizing
- Change leadership
- Influence and impact
- Time management and analytical thinking
- Attention to detail
- Active listening and constructive feedback
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
- Empathy and relationship-building
- Individual and team leadership (transactional and transformational)
Requirements:
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
- At least ten years of progressive professional experience as a Project Manager or in a similar capacity.
- Experience in business transformation and business process/continuous improvement projects.
- Strong organizational and relationship-building skills.
- Oil & Gas/Energy industry experience is an asset.
- Highly effective communicator, confident, passionate, transparent, respectfully assertive, and inspiring.
- Displays emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and remains calm under pressure; confident and optimistic attitude.
Industry: Oil & Gas/Energy
Job Category: Project Management
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Pay: $90.00-$120.00 per hour
Schedule:
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
Experience:
- Project management: 10 years (required)
- progressive professional Project Manager: 10 years (required)
- business transformation and business process: 6 years (required)
- continuous improvement projects: 6 years (required)
- Oil & Gas/Energy industry: 6 years (required)
- relationship-building skills: 6 years (required)
- Leadership: 5 years (required)
Work Location: In person