Job Title: Senior Project Manager – Legal

Location: Toronto, ON (Open to remote candidates who can work on EST, however, the preference is for a candidate who can follow a hybrid model and come to office during the week as needed. The team currently goes into office 3 days weekly.)

Duration: 6 months

Contract Type: T4 only

Pay Rate: $87.84/Hour

Role Mandate:

• We are looking for a Project Manager to join Client’s External Legal Counsel program to support an initiative focused on a program and panel refresh.

• RFPs are expected to be distributed to a number of firms and a skilled PM who can navigate Change Management and direct various levels of leadership and groups is requested to keep the project on track.

Role Responsibilities:

• Leads assigned projects from project initiation to implementation to achieve desired business results.
• Ensures that a successful business outcome is the prime measure of project success including delivering projects on time, within budget, within quality standards and to the satisfaction of the project sponsor.
• Drives to mitigate execution risk to achieve the desired business outcomes. Understands the business/group and facilitates communication with other program/project managers and stakeholders efficiently and effectively.
• Directs, manages, and coordinates team members including other project managers, business and technology resources, user groups, internal and external consultants and contractors, as well as vendors and external regulatory organizations.
• Monitors and tracks performance and addresses any issues.
• Designs and produces regular and ad-hoc reports, and dashboards.
• Socializes change management plans with stakeholders and consistently measures project effectiveness and adoption.
• Directs complex initiatives typically involving multiple business units.
• Exercises direct accountability for projects with up to 50 team members
• Negotiates complex contracts with external vendors (in consultation with Strategic Sourcing) to ensure receipt of specific resources and materials
• Provides guidance to the project sponsor on the implementation and sustainment of projects, resulting in successful project outcomes
• Manages all aspects of the project lifecycle, including business, operational and technology deliverables. Ensures all project processes are completed.
• Ensures change management plans are developed, socialized and consistently measured to deliver the expected project benefits and adoption.
• Executes project requirements in governance frameworks focused on risk appetite, regulatory and compliance standards.
• Develops all related project management artifacts, while complying with applicable enterprise standards
• Monitors and controls project deliverables. Makes recommendations and adjustments to the overall project plan to achieve deliverables

Must Have Skills:

• Project management experience – 6 to 8 years (grounded in PM organization, meetings, minutes, sequence activities, problem solving)
• Background must reflect experience working with client Legal teams, external legal counsel
• Change Management experience is preferred
• Banking and Procurement experience are nice to have
• Valid PMP designation from the Project Management Institute (PMI) is an asset.
• Entrepreneurial skills, able to navigate change – In-depth.