Snr Project Manager working on a digital media project

Our vlaued client is looking for a Snr Project Manager to work on a digital media project

Initial 6 month contract, Montreal or Toronto- Hybrid, 2 days per week, or as required by project 

Responsibilities:

• Project definition & planning: define or finalize the project scope and schedule and any needed PM artefacts to support delivery.
  • Define or finalize project scope, which could include Scope Statement, Minimally Viable Product in backlog, or other.
  • Develop or finalize roadmap, including critical activities, key milestones and deliveries, and interdependencies (logical and resource-based).
  • Develop or finalize any other artefacts that are required or will support effective delivery of value, which may include but are not limited to: Charter, Stakeholder Register, RACI, Project Management Plan, Control Logs, Executive Status, etc
• Project monitoring & controlling
• Regularly review progress, issues and risks/opportunities, working with teams that are working in
  • Agile (Scrum), predictive (traditional / scheduled), and ad-hoc manners.
  • Take planned, proactive, and corrective actions as required to mitigate and respond to risks and issues to ensure delivery of project’s foreseen value and benefits.
  • Facilitate meetings, workshops, and brainstorming sessions as required.
  • Engage stakeholders and ensure project communications as planned / appropriate / required.
  • Report on project status as required, which may include project governance, organizational, and portfolio management.
• Project closure
  • Ensure that other closure activities such as lessons learned, variance analysis, customer satisfaction and team surveys have taken place.
  • Ensure that contractual and administrative closure has occurred.

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager 
• Experience in traditional, Agile, hybrid project management: able to coordinate work of teams and groups that function in an Agile (e.g. Scrum for delivery) manner, as well as planned/scheduled and ad-hoc manner, to deliver required value.
• Understand stakeholder needs, manage expectations, work with non-technical and technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience / understanding of OTT (linear and on-demand)
• Project management certification
• Agile certification
• English required, functional bilingualism (French/English)