DTS-028– Project Manager - #438635

Job Title: 29954 -RFR-DTS-028– Project Manager

Office Location: Onsite & Remote

#Business Days: Up to 24 Month

Duration: The duration of the engagement may be for up to a 24-month term. Due to the nature of projects, there may be exceptional circumstances where the total term may be extended beyond 24 months. The 24-month term is anticipated to start with a 6-month initial term followed by up to 18-month renewal(s).

Description

SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES

All Services will be performed on-site with primary location at 215 Garry Street, Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba, regardless of the location of residence of the Proponent’s resource. The service location of the resource may change as a part of STATEMENT OF WORK between Proponent and Manitoba. Manitoba at its sole discretion may provide an option to work remotely. The remote working rate is the rate at which the proponent’s resource will work primarily remotely and called onsite if needed at Manitoba’s sole discretion (expenses related to attend on-site is carried by the Proponent). The onsite rate is the rate at which proponent’s resource will work primarily onsite as per the location defined in STATEMENT OF WORK and may work remotely if needed with prior written permission from Manitoba at its sole discretion. The Proponent shall provide only one rate based on the primary location of the resource.

Standard working hours for the resource will be in accordance with Manitoba usual working hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CST (7.25 hours per day), Monday to Friday. Manitoba offices are closed on all Manitoba statutory holidays, and these days will be unpaid. Manitoba at its sole discretion may decide that at certain times extended working hours are needed to meet project deadlines. But extended working hours are to cover exceptional circumstances and may not be available during the entire duration of the engagement with the proponent’s resource. Overtime work cannot be used and billed unless approved by Manitoba with an advanced written approval.

Role Description

• Project Managers plan, organize and manage some or all aspects of a project such as project initiation, project planning, project execution and project closure. Projects will vary in complexity, duration, approach and technology.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Primary ownership of the project Deliverables. Provide day to day direction to the project team;
• Manage and control project scope and strategic aspects of the project;
• Manage the project, resources, associated work plans, and dependencies;
• Manage the overall integration of all project teams' work efforts;
• Ensure that project team has properly qualified resources on the project;
• Review and approve selected project Deliverables;
• Manage and expedite issue resolution;
• Monitor budget to actual project expenditures, headcount, Deliverable completion, and milestones;
• Communicate with steering committee, project sponsor, and business process owners;
• Identify, track, and report project performance metrics;
• Identify and help remove barriers to team performance
  
  

Skill Requirements/Qualifications

A clean criminal record check status will be required at the proponent’s expense prior to the successful Service Provider Resource(s) arriving onsite or working remotely. Maintaining a clean status is required throughout the Proponents contract. An enhanced background check, completed by Manitoba may be required on certain projects due to the confidentiality of the materials shared to the Proponent. If the proponent fails, they must rectify on their own cost and time.

The following are minimum qualifications and/or experience for the delivery of the Services.

The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience managing Information Technology projects
• Valid PMP Certification or Prince2 Practitioner certification
• Expertise in project lifecycles, and project planning including resource, cost, and schedule estimation
• Experience working on a project within a large-scale program requiring integration with other projects and adherence to an overall program strategy and execution
• Experience working on large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation projects
• Experience developing business cases
• Experience planning and managing projects in a Public Sector organization
• Experience managing project utilizing a large system integration vendor
• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently
• Experience managing multiple vendors concurrently
• Excellent interpersonal and listening skills
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong analysis and problem resolution skills
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
  
  

It is preferred that the Resource has the following qualifications or experience:

• SAP project management experience in one, or all, of the following areas: S4HANA, Ariba, Fieldglass, SuccessFactors
• Strong exposure to SAP Activate Methodology in a Hybrid Agile delivery approach
• Solid understanding of the SAP landscape, modules, and terminology
• Ability to liaise between SAP & System Integrator consultants and Business SME's to ensure requirements are met while ensuring the adoption of best practice is maintained
  
  

Eligibility and Application Steps

If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: [email protected]

Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
  
  

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role