Project Manager III

Richmond, BC
On-site
Posted Oct 9, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level

Job summary

Lead complex, cross-functional transformation projects from initiation through deployment and closeout, managing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, and interdependencies. Coordinate business, technology, change, transition, and benefits teams while maintaining stakeholder alignment, governance, and delivery documentation.

Job details

Job Description On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking a Project Manager III who will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of complex, cross-functional business transformation initiatives. This includes end-to-end project planning, execution, and delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring projects are delivered with quality, on time, within scope, and on budget. This functional Project Manager role will involve both project management and business analysis responsibilities, while also supporting transition and change management activities. The successful candidate will work within a matrix environment, coordinating across business, technology, and operational teams and managing stakeholder relationships at all levels. Responsibilities Lead end-to-end project delivery across design and implementation phases, from initiation and planning through to deployment and closeout Facilitate working sessions, design reviews, planning sessions, and decision-making forums with business operations, technology, change, benefits, and senior stakeholders. Define and confirm problem statements, outcomes, scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and success measures so that project work is targeted, achievable, and aligned to program objectives. Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, resource plans, RAID logs, decision logs, action registers, change request records, and governance materials. Estimate effort, sequence work, manage interdependencies across workstreams, and coordinate cross-functional delivery teams including operations leads, SMEs, business analysts, designers, developers, testers, change practitioners, and vendor resources. Develop forecasts, track actuals, review variances, support accruals and financial reporting, and work with finance and leadership to maintain budget discipline and transparency. Prepare or support business cases, funding requests, executive updates, steering committee materials, status reports, and other governance deliverables required for informed decision-making. Partner with business design teams to support current-state assessment and process mapping, requirements gathering, business and gap analysis, future-state process and operating model design, and traceability from desired outcomes to delivery scope. Partner with technology teams to ensure development, configuration, testing, defect resolution, release planning, and implementation activities are completed on time and achieve the intended outcomes. Partner with change and transition teams to develop change impact assessments, communication plans, learning materials, readiness plans, go-live support models, and transition-to-operations plans. Partner with benefits measurement teams to define metrics, KPIs, dashboards, baseline measures, target benefits, and post-implementation reporting that demonstrate whether business outcomes are being achieved. Manage project quality by setting clear deliverable expectations, reviewing work products, ensuring appropriate approvals, and maintaining complete, current, auditable project documentation. Proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, capacity constraints, scope changes, and stakeholder misalignment; recommend options and escalate decisions at the right level. Qualifications 7+ years of project management experience with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects, preferably in technology-enabled business transformation, modernization, or operating model change Demonstrated ability to deliver projects on time, within scope, and within budget while managing quality, ambiguity, competing priorities, and multiple workstreams. Experience developing and managing project plans, schedules, milestones, financial forecasts, status reports, RAID logs, decision logs, and governance materials. Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to facilitate working sessions, navigate complex stakeholder environments, build effective relationships, influence without direct authority, and communicate with working teams through executive sponsors. Proven experience working in a matrix organizational environment with cross-functional teams, shared accountabilities, and multiple reporting relationships. Experience supporting business design and implementation, technology design and implementation, change management, go-live planning, and deployment activities. Proven ability to work effectively as both a self-starter / individual contributor and as part of a broader team. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise, decision-ready materials for leadership and operational audiences. Experience in the insurance industry and/or public sector is required; candidates with both are strongly preferred Demonstrated ability to drive process improvement initiatives, identifying inefficiencies and implementing sustainable solutions Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail Strong understanding of Lean and SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) methodologies, with the ability to apply agile principles in a hybrid delivery environment Hands-on experience using Azure DevOps to manage end-to-end project delivery, including linking work items to milestones, tracking progress across teams, and maintaining visibility for stakeholders PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project/program management certification is strongly preferred (or demonstrated equivalent experience) Knowledge of claims processes end-to-end, workers’ compensation, insurance operations, or disability management. Brings structure to complexity without slowing delivery; can quickly clarify scope, decisions, accountabilities, and next steps. Comfortable operating across business and technology audiences and can translate between operational needs, design decisions, and technical delivery requirements. Ability to coach team members, build delivery discipline, and contribute to program-level project management best practices. Lean, Six Sigma, or Prosci certification an asset Affinity Earn Know someone who’s great for this, or any of our open roles? Earn up to $4,000/year for each successful referral through Affinity Earn. You can also earn up to $50,000 for helping us find new clients. Learn about our referral program at https://affinity-group.ca/earn/ or browse our jobs & follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/affinity-staffing/jobs/ About Affinity Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca Job Number: 14023

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires at least seven years of project management experience delivering complex cross-functional projects, with insurance industry and/or public sector experience. Candidates should bring strong stakeholder, analytical, financial, and communication skills; experience with Lean and SAFe, Azure DevOps, and business and technology implementation is expected, while project management certification is strongly preferred.