Senior IT Project Manager

Job title: Senior IT Project Manager

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Job description: You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:
This role within the SLC IT team will collaborate to deliver innovative solutions for SLC Management initiatives. The successful candidate will specialize in the planning, management and implementation of complex application projects to meet business partner needs in the Front / Middle / Back Office, Distribution, Finance, Risk and Controls teams. Leadership and excellent communication skills will be essential to successful deliver in the rapidly changing organization.

What will you do?

• Strengthen relationships with clients, building trust, inspiring confidence and earning respect.
• Plans and executes projects with a high level of complexity and uncertainty including managing project scope, requirement changes and priorities
• Applies critical thinking to proactively identify project risks and issues using appropriate fact-based metrics/assumptions and develop strategies to mitigate from the outset
• Manages all project communications including steering committee presentations, status reports to executives, stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team, etc.
• Ensures timely engagement with relevant groups, e.g. security, compliance, finance, privacy, sourcing, as required by implications of the change being introduced by the project
• Ensures change management plans are developed, socialized and consistently measured to deliver the expected project benefits and adoption.
• Promotes innovative or improved methods to get the work done while leveraging best practices to complying with applicable enterprise standards
• Collaborate with business partners, executives, and technical project teams to deliver quality solutions to business client’s satisfaction.
• Manage vendors to ensure alignment of project plans, timely delivery and quality of work

What do you need to succeed?

• 7+ years’ experience as a project manager, with experience implementing enterprise applications and SaaS integrations
• 3+ years of experience in leading teams, setting objectives and driving results
• 2+ years of experience in implementing data warehousing solutions preferences in Markit EDM
• Demonstrates ownership and personal sense of urgency for solving problems, getting work done and instills the same in the project team.
• Evidence of effective and efficient delivery in a virtual, multi-site environment.
• Experience leveraging multiple project delivery methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Iterative and Waterfall.
• Great leadership, collaboration, communication and team skills to effectively manage work in a matrix organization
• Ability to work with ambiguity and help project team members work with ambiguity

Preferred:

• Project management or functional experience solutions within Investments, Asset Management and Capital Markets
• Project Management Certification (such as Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) Institute, Agile Certification)

What’s in it for you?
SLC Management is a global institutional asset manager that provides innovative and diversified solutions to meet our clients’ evolving needs. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$303 billion in assets under management / US$227 billion in assets under management.

SLC Management offers the best of two worlds to professionals looking for opportunity, challenge and growth. We are breaking ground with innovative solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1200 organizations across North America. As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.

Our teams live by a set of core beliefs that put our clients’ needs and goals first. We are looking for talented professionals at all stages of their financial careers: those who are ready to learn and those who are ready to lead.

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The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:
73,800/73 800 – 124,100/124 100
Job Category:
Project Management – Systems

Expected salary: $73800 – 124100 per year

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:49:05 GMT