Leads complex business transformation projects from ambiguous initial vision through deployment. Defines objectives, scope, benefits, governance, roles, milestones, dependencies, resources, reporting, and risk controls. Serves as the central liaison among sponsors, steering committees, managers, internal and external contributors, and integrators. Requires business project management in a financial institution, Desjardins and GPAP experience, plus software integration or platform change expertise.
Mandate Overview:
- The client explicitly rules out profiles whose experience
centres on coordinating technology deliveries. The person starts from a
strategic direction, clarifies the business objectives and expected benefits,
then builds the project structure: governance, roles, milestones, dependencies
and monitoring mechanisms. They act as the central point of contact for the
sponsor, the steering committee, managers and internal and external
contributors, including the integrator. They hold sole accountability for reporting,
authorize resource changes and manage project risk. The software integration
and platform change context, combined with GPAP knowledge, places the mandate
within a transformation environment specific to the client.
- Candidate sought: a senior project manager who has
personally launched business projects from a still unclear vision, defined
their scope and governance, then carried them through to deployment before a
steering committee. Ideally with prior Desjardins experience, GPAP knowledge
and at least one software platform replacement or integration project.
Requirements
Key
Requirements:
Required:
- Demonstrated business project management, from initial
definition and structuring through deployment
- Experience at Desjardins and knowledge of GPAP
- Experience in a risk management context and/or in a
financial institution
- Experience in a software integration and platform change
project
Preferred:
- Competencies named in the mandate: analysis and synthesis,
complex and ambiguous contexts, communication, political acumen, collaborative
culture, planning and coordination, leadership and initiative
Asset:
- Master's or graduate degree in project management
Profiles to Exclude:
- Profile whose project experience is limited to coordinating
technology deliveries (production releases, deployments), without defining
business objectives, scope or benefits.
- Profile that takes over already framed projects, with no
project launch shown on the resume (governance, roadmap, roles and
responsibilities established by the person).
- Profile with no demonstrated reporting to a sponsor or
steering committee.
- Profile with no project on the resume involving software
integration or platform change.
- Scrum Master, PO or PCO profile presented as equivalent to
an accountable project manager role.
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