Senior IT Project Manager

Summary:

• Location: Toronto, ON
• Duration: 18 months

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of HR AI, automation, data-related, and HR technology enhancement initiatives from initiation through implementation.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering milestones, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, decisions, and resource requirements.
• Monitor project progress against approved scope, schedules, milestones, and quality expectations.
• Identify delivery variances and proactively coordinate corrective actions to maintain project timelines and objectives.
• Manage project scope, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle, escalating significant impacts when required.
• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements in collaboration with HR stakeholders, subject-matter experts, delivery teams, and technology partners.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritized backlog items, and measurable deliverables.
• Coordinate Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning, as applicable.
• Coordinate stakeholders across HR, Corporate Technology, AI, data, and delivery teams to align expectations, resolve blockers, and facilitate timely decisions.
• Identify, assess, document, and actively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Coordinate testing, validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), implementation readiness, deployment, and transition activities.
• Maintain complete, organized, and traceable project documentation, including project plans, requirements, status reports, meeting minutes, decisions, risks, issues, and delivery outcomes.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience managing projects involving artificial intelligence, automation, data, analytics, or related technology solutions.
• Proven experience leading technology projects from initiation through implementation, including planning, requirements management, delivery coordination, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong requirements management skills, including eliciting, documenting, prioritizing, and validating business and functional requirements.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or a comparable project and work management platform for tracking backlogs, work items, dependencies, and delivery status.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business and technical information into clear, actionable insights.
• Strong organizational, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and collaborate effectively in a remote or hybrid environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience managing projects within HR, Human Resources technology, or a related business function.
• Experience delivering HR AI initiatives, HR automation solutions, or HR technology enhancements.
• Familiarity with Workday or other enterprise HR platforms.
• Knowledge of HR processes across recruitment, talent management, learning and development, employee experience, workforce planning, and HR operations.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing, change readiness, implementation, adoption, and transition to operations.
• Experience coordinating delivery across business stakeholders, technology teams, data specialists, and external vendors.

This role is for an existing vacancy.