Sr. Project Manager
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Our client requires two (2) Senior Project Manager’s to work within an established ERP program environment, understand complex project context quickly, support continuity of delivery, and contribute with minimal onboarding delay. The role requires strong experience in public-sector ERP delivery, executive governance reporting, risk and dependency management, and coordination across business, technical, vendor, and senior leadership stakeholders.
The resource will oversee all aspects of assigned projects, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, governance reporting, stakeholder engagement, and delivery coordination. The resource will work closely with business areas, technical teams, vendors, project sponsors, senior leaders, and cross-ministry stakeholders to support timely delivery of project outcomes
Resource will work remotely. The expectation is that the resource be located within the Edmonton area or nearby and will attend meetings one or two times per month. The resource located outside the province is expected to attend one meeting per quarter. Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time. Work must be done from within Canada, due to network and data security issues. Resource is responsible to pay for travel to on-site meetings.
Edmonton, Alberta (Remote within Canada)
Mandatory Requirements
- Bachelor degree or diploma in IT, Computer Science, Math or Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 12 years’ experience defining project scope, goals, deliverables, schedules, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and resource requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
- 12 years’ experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs, project closures, dashboards.
- 12 years’ experience in a senior project management role leading complex IT or ERP projects involving multiple business areas, technical teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
- 2 years’ experience in delivering and managing Budgeting and Forecasting solutions in an ERP landscape.
- 2 years’ experience in delivering and managing HRIS system in an ERP landscape (such as a Complex Scheduling system).
- 2 years’ experience in delivering and managing SCM solutions in an ERP landscape (source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, Ariba invoicing, etc.)
- 12 years’ experience in planning, designing, implementing and supporting platform solutions in an enterprise IT environment for a large and complex organization.
- 8 years’ experience working in the public sector either Federal or Provincial.
Desirable Requirements
- Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management Institute or equivalent (attach a copy of the certificate)
- Ability to learn quickly, problem solve, troubleshoot, work independently and as in a team.
- Ability to manage stress and conflict.
- Ability to work closely with key stakeholders to communicate progress.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group.
- Available to lead frequent (daily) face-to-face meetings with clients and technical teams.
- 10 years’ experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships across the organization, including executive level.
- 10 years’ experience exercising resourcefulness when making recommendations on highly technical or complex business issues without formal guidelines or precedents.
- 10 years’ experience with various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.).
- 10 years’ experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex custom software application development project (where the software is developed in house for that specific organization) in a large and complex environment.
- 10 years’ experience working directly within the Government of Alberta, 1GX, or a comparable Canadian public-sector ERP environment.
- 10 years senior leadership experience working in the public sector (ideally Canada) with a sound knowledge of its stakeholders, business functions and informational requirements.
- 10 years’ experience successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources from across multiple teams or organizations.
Job Posting ID: 56912
Location: Edmonton, Alberta (Remote within Canada)
Estimated Starting Date: Aug 3, 2026
Estimated End Date: till Jun 30, 2027 + pos. 6-months extension
Posting Closing Date: June 30, 2026
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