[Hiring] Project Manager @Workiy

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead strategic projects and business enablement initiatives through all phases of the project lifecycle, including:

• Initiation
• Planning
• Execution
• Monitoring
• Implementation
• Close-out

The successful candidate will:

• Establish project objectives, scope, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, schedules, governance processes, and delivery plans.
• Ensure projects remain aligned with business priorities and expected outcomes.
• Lead discovery and requirements-gathering activities.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Support process mapping and solution-definition discussions.
• Establish clear scope boundaries.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, change requests, and competing priorities.
• Provide recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies.
• Work closely with internal teams, senior leaders, subject matter experts, external vendors, consultants, and other stakeholders to coordinate deliverables, approvals, communications, and project activities.
• Prepare and present project updates, options analyses, recommendations, risks, issues, and decision materials.
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery environments through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to improving project delivery practices, governance processes, requirements-gathering approaches, stakeholder engagement, and overall organizational project management maturity.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of business experience, including at least 3–4 years leading projects, programs, organizational change initiatives, or business transformation activities.
• Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Commerce, Communications, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Professional project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent recognized certification.

Requirements

• Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out.
• Project lifecycle management and delivery.
• Requirements gathering, business analysis, and scope definition.
• Requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and process mapping.
• Scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change management.
• Stakeholder management, negotiation, influence, and consensus building.
• Risk, issue, dependency, and change management.
• Project governance and executive decision support.
• Executive presentations, status reporting, and recommendations.
• Cross-functional team leadership without direct authority.
• Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies.
• Backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Organizational change and business transformation.
• Vendor, consultant, and external stakeholder coordination.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, reporting, collaboration, and backlog management tools.
• Coaching stakeholders and teams on project delivery practices and governance.

Company Description