Project Manager (Strategy & Impact Business Enablement)

Job summary

Lead projects and business transformation initiatives through the full lifecycle, managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, and delivery outcomes. Align cross-functional stakeholders and coordinate communications, marketing, digital, content, events, partnerships, and engagement workstreams while providing decision support and status updates to leadership.

Job details

Focus Systems is seeking an experienced Project Manager - Strategy & Impact Business Enablement to support a business transformation and Strategy & Impact Business Enablement initiatives. If you have strong experience leading cross-functional projects through the full lifecycle, aligning diverse stakeholders, establishing governance and requirements, and delivering measurable business outcomes, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-visibility initiatives spanning communications, marketing, digital, content, events, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement. Key Details Location: Remote within Canada Engagement: Full-time Contract: October 20, 2026, to April 1, 2027, with possible extension Work Arrangement: Remote - Canada Role Overview The Project Manager will lead one or more projects or initiatives through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out. The work has a strong focus on business transformation, stakeholder alignment, governance, requirements gathering, and successful delivery of business outcomes. The successful candidate will work across business units, leadership groups, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams, including initiatives involving communications, marketing, digital, content, events, partnerships, or stakeholder engagement. Key Responsibilities Lead one or more projects or initiatives through the full project lifecycle, ensuring delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes Lead discovery, planning, and requirements-gathering activities to establish objectives, scope boundaries, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, planning sessions, and governance discussions to support informed decision-making Develop and maintain project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, issue logs, dependency logs, communication plans, and status reporting mechanisms Assess proposed scope changes, identify impacts, prepare recommendations, and facilitate governance decisions Coordinate planning, prioritization, delivery, and approval of deliverables across internal teams, external vendors, consultants, and stakeholders Coordinate and support communications, marketing, digital, content, event, partnership, or stakeholder-engagement workstreams Build strong relationships with sponsors, business leaders, vendors, stakeholders, and delivery teams while leading cross-functional accountability without direct authority Proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and delivery challenges Prepare and present status updates, options analyses, recommendations, and decision materials for sponsors, governance bodies, and executive stakeholders Support Agile and hybrid delivery through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement Identify opportunities to improve governance, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement and organizational project management maturity Mandatory Qualifications Five to eight years of business experience, including at least three to four years leading projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities Experience independently managing projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out Experience developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication plans, and status reporting processes Experience leading requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation, and solution-definition discussions Experience establishing scope boundaries and managing assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and scope changes Experience aligning stakeholders across business units, leadership groups, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests, including recommendations and escalation options Experience with Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery approaches Experience preparing and presenting project updates and decisions to sponsors, steering committees, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders Relevant post-secondary education, or an equivalent combination of education and experience A recognized professional project management certification, such as Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent Required Skills & Experience Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out capabilities Strong requirements-gathering, business analysis, scope-definition, and change-management skills Strong workshop, interview, and stakeholder facilitation skills Strong stakeholder management, influence, negotiation, and consensus-building skills across diverse groups and competing interests Advanced risk, issue, dependency, and change-management capabilities Strong governance and decision-support skills, including executive presentations, status reports, steering committee materials, and recommendations Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear, actionable recommendations Ability to manage cross-functional teams, interdependencies, competing priorities, and organizational impacts without direct reporting authority Experience with Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog management, reporting, and collaboration tools Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies and when to apply them Preferred Experience & Assets Experience supporting communications, public engagement, storytelling, advocacy, awareness, or brand-related initiatives involving diverse stakeholders Experience coordinating initiatives involving external partners, sponsors, customers, industry organizations, government stakeholders, vendors, or cross-functional teams Experience leading or coordinating marketing, events, content production, digital platforms, campaigns, activations, or other externally facing deliverables Application Deadline Please complete your initial application by October 11, at 11:00 PM CST. Only candidates selected to proceed to the next stage will be contacted and invited to complete their application package.

What you’ll do

Lead projects and business transformation initiatives through the full lifecycle, managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, and delivery outcomes. Align cross-functional stakeholders and coordinate communications, marketing, digital, content, events, partnerships, and engagement workstreams while providing decision support and status updates to leadership.

Requirements

Requires five to eight years of business experience, including at least three to four years leading projects or transformation initiatives, with demonstrated full-lifecycle project management and stakeholder alignment experience. Candidates need strong requirements, governance, risk, communication, and delivery skills; relevant post-secondary education or equivalent experience; and a recognized project management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Listed skills

• Change Management · Preferred
• Microsoft 365 · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Requirements gathering · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Project Management
• Business Transformation
• Requirements Gathering
• Stakeholder Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Scope Management
• Risk Management
• Governance
• Change Management
• Executive Communication
• Agile Delivery
• Hybrid Project Delivery
• Budget Management
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Microsoft 365
• Backlog Management

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Consulting
• Marketing
• Technology

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