Senior Project Manager EPMO (12 month fixed term contract)

Description

The EPMO Project Manager leads teams and manages stakeholders with a broad perspective, anticipating challenges and facilitating effective decision-making through strong intuition and project expertise. This role excels in communication, resource allocation, project financial controls, and organizational skills—empowering teams, navigating complex environments, and ensuring project milestones are met through collaboration and negotiation. With proven abilities in risk management, time management, and cost control, the Project Manager delivers successful outcomes while fostering confidence and trust across all levels of the organization.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned project manager who has previous experience leading technology initiatives to support end to end supply chain operations, including transportation, warehousing, inventory, distribution, and supplier integration. This role partners closely with IT, procurement, operations and finance teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient technology solutions that improve visibility, efficiency, and cost control across the supply chain.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects related to
  • Warehouse Management System (WMS)
  • Transportation Management System (TMS)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • Barcode scanning
  • Yard management
  • Other automation systems 
• Lead project teams and manage stakeholders through the different project phases:  
  • 1) Initiation (establish goals, requirements collection, deliverables and milestones;  establish project governance)
  • 2) Execution (establish project plan with timelines, milestones & dependencies; support vendor selection; create and manage project plan, budget, forecast, resource plan, and dependencies)
  • 3) Closing (release resources; create lessons learned repository; activities to close project financials).
• Demonstrated experience delivering medium to large-scale IT projects in a complex, enterprise environment. Familiarity with teams that are responsible for:
  • UX
  • Architecture
  • Application development
  • QA
  • Business Intelligence
  • Cybersecurity
• Ability to support data migration strategy, oversee system testing (system, integration, regression, UAT), cutover planning, and go live activities with minimal disruption to operations
• Establish core team committee(s), working forums, executive reporting, and relevant artifacts to support project governance, progress reporting, risk and issues tracking and resolution strategies, and delivery of outputs, throughout the project.
• Develop long-term project plans, establish milestones and dependencies, manage timelines and completion dates, and understand how different project components interact.
• Execute budget management and cost forecasting, understanding the financial implications of resource changes and third-party involvement, and ensure efficient vendor management.
• Communicate clearly and confidently, empowering the team, providing direction, and adapting communication style depending on audience, to ensure engagement of all stakeholders.
• Efficiently manage resources, assess team performance, coach and motivate team members, mediate conflicts, and delegate tasks to achieve project goals.
• Document and prioritize tasks, activities, requirements, issues and dependencies, across complex projects, breaking down roadblocks, issues & risks into manageable stages. Identify and mitigate risks impacting operational continuity, peak periods, and service-level commitments
• Collaborate with stakeholders, internal teams, and suppliers to negotiate and align on key milestones, requirements, scope, risks & issues, and deliverables, ensuring team alignment and successful project outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with team members and stakeholders, demonstrating self-confidence and inspiring trust in project success
• Continuously evaluate and adjust plans and strategies to meet project objectives, leveraging intuition and a strong understanding of project dynamics.
• Hands-on with requirements management, risk/issue management, budget tracking, and vendor management.
• Experience supporting procurement processes, including SOW development with the business, RFI, RFP, ranking/ratings, supporting vendor reviews, etc. 

Experience

• University degree in Computer Science, Business, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline. 
• 7-10+ years of experience in Project Management.
• Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent) required.
• Industry specific experience in Supply Chain and/or Logistics is required.
• Experience managing IT/technology projects required.
• Proven delivery of effective program & project management across a range of project types and complexities, including IT. 
• Experience with Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid project management models. 
• Effectively engage, lead, and influence cross functional teams to build integrated schedules and deliver within committed timeline and scope. 
• Project/program management reporting experience areas including reporting for C level and Board members, dashboards at program and function level, with hands on experience on project artifacts to drive decision making. 
• Experience working with project & portfolio management tools, ServiceNow (PPM) experience preferred. 
• Strong project governance, project stage gating, project audit knowledge and experience  
• Thorough knowledge of Project Cost planning and templates involved for capturing, maintaining, and reporting project financials (budget). 
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, ServiceNow PPM, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Proven self-starter with sound judgment and decision-making ability with evidence of innovative, critical, and logical thinking. 
• Outstanding interpersonal, influencing and communication skills to build strong relationships, gain credibility and network effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of ITIL and operational support models