Job Description:

As a key team member, the Project Manager is responsible for successfully leading a cross-functional team to successful project completion following a full Solution Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The Project Manager is accountable for delivering a solution within project constraints. The Project Manager will also use formal project management techniques and interact with clients and other key stakeholders to ensure projects are completed within identified scope, cost and execution commitments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan and successfully deliver large, highly visible IT projects with high risk, complexity and change management.
• Follow the appropriate SDLC for each project.
• Set project team expectations, and clearly document project success factors.
• Provide extensive communications to senior management as required.
• Implement efficient communication practices to ensure that the project team operates efficiently and effectively.
• Identify, secure and lead multi-stream project teams.
• Manage project schedules and budgets to ensure project completion on time, on budget, and within scope and agreed performance metrics.
• Analyze project risk and execute risk management strategies.
• Develop project charters ensuring alignment with business goals and properly defined project scope, deliverables, risk analysis and resource requirements.
• Prepare and possibly present regular project status reports.
• Manage both departmental and cross-functional projects as required.
• Manage the implementation of assigned projects to meet stakeholder expectations measured by a project post-mortem.

Qualifications:

• Must have formal Project Management training. Membership to a recognized Project Management Body (e.g Prince2, PMI) would be viewed positively;
• A university degree or equivalent combination of education and experience;
• 4+ years of Business Analyst or equivalent experience, including 1+ years of Project Management experience at a minimum;
• Experience managing all phases of large and complex projects;
• Solid SDLC application development experience;
• Possess a good sense of how business needs can be met through innovative technology solutions;
• Demonstrated excellence in communication and leadership aptitudes;
• Experience managing Systems Integration, Software Development, and Releases;
• Experience with software configuration management principles;
• Experience with AGILE and Extreme methodologies is an asset;
• Experience in creating project plans using formal PM methodologies;
• Demonstrated ability in successfully managing client relationships;
• 100% proficient English communication skills (both verbal and written);
• Excellent interpersonal and listening skills;
• Excellent negotiating skills;
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities;
• Strong leadership & organizational transformation skills;
• Ability to identify process gaps and initiate improvement opportunities;
• Good understanding of the solution delivery process;
• Superior organizational skills and ability to manage time effectively and efficiently;
• Demonstrated ability in coordinating and tracking multiple projects;
• Demonstrated ability in developing exceptional customer and internal stakeholder relationships
• Proven experience in authoring project initiation documentation;
• Excellent PC skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, etc.);
• Strong analytical skills.

Decisioning Solutions Inc., with its head office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, provides organizations with industry-leading state-of-the-art customer decisioning and ancillary solutions for use throughout the customer lifecycle. The solutions are 100% customer administered and configured without IT or vendor involvement and deliver unparalleled flexibility and robust capabilities with extreme ease of implementation and configuration.
Decisioning Solutions offers application processing systems, decision retrieval tools, data mining/reporting tools, and predictive modeling solutions to empower the decision-making process from pre-acquisition to retention. Decisioning Solutions also provides customers with an array of sophisticated decisioning features such as unlimited champion/challenger, tri-score matrixing, derived variables and predictive model hosting.