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Job Summary
The project manager will possess the authority to manage end-to-end planning and delivery of multiple parallel projects within the Customer Solutions & Innovation team. Oversees all aspects of projects, sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of the project, builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of the projects and verify that the project portfolio achieves the potential benefits defined in the projects business case. The project manager will actively participate in the deployment of projects governance, standards & best practices. The project manager will be responsible to supervise project team members as well as manage project managers.
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CN has partnered with Google on a cloud transformation journey which starts with the migration of current workloads from its data centers to the cloud. In parallel a few modernization programs have been launched with a dependency on the Google Cloud Platform foundation. The project manager will be responsible for multiple medium to large projects within the transformation program.
Main Responsibilities
• Responsible for coordination and completion of large scale and complex projects.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Negotiates changes in scope, budget or schedule with sponsor and steering committee and/or management according to CN IT operating model.
• Leads and directs the work of others.
• Report progress to delivery manager and/or head of a unit/department and steering committee.
• Identify resource requirements.
• Identify milestones and critical success factors.
• Communicate and collaborate with people across the organization, partners, clients, and vendors to get work done.
• Ensure project transparency with timely and effective project communications.
• Escalate issues and risks with available options as appropriate.
• Lead steering committee with the Senior Delivery Managers.
• Align delivery teams & practices throughout the project's execution.
• Manage project constrains & assumptions and maintain projects KPIs throughout the project's lifecycle.
• Handover successfully the projects outcomes to operation & support teams, leading to successful projects closure.
Requirements
• At least 5 years experience in Project Management
- Experience with technical IT projects
- Experience of managing technology partners and suppliers for datacentres, server, network, and telecoms
- Experience of managing technical resources within a matrix environment
- Experience in delivering 'on-premise' to 'cloud' migration projects (ideally on the Google Cloud Platform)
- A strong technical awareness and background - Microsoft, Wintel Server, VMWare, Cloud - Azure, GCP or AWS
- PMP Certification, or equivalent (Prince-2, PMI-ACP, Cloud Project Management...) is an asset
• Ability to think strategically and at the same time diving deep into technical and operational details.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies (Lean, SCRUM, SAFe, or other), DevOps, and continuous integration & continuous delivery.
• Master project management best practices and strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with different levels and types of users.
• Customer focused mindset.
• Proven track record of delivering to time and budget, technical IT infrastructure and cloud migration projects.
• Ability to coordinate interdependencies with other projects.
• Strong leadership, influencing, negotiation, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Quick learner, autonomous and comfortable managing ambiguity in a fast paced, changing environment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Project Professional Server (PPM)/PWA).
• Intermediate to expert skill with MS Excel or MS PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication written and spoken English. Written and spoken French would be an asset.
This position is posted as a grade LEVEL 7. Forinternal candidates, note that the grade level of the position may adjust basedon the employee's experience.
About CN
CN is a world-class transportation leader and trade-enabler. Essential to the economy, to the customers, and to the communities it serves, CN safely transports more than 300 million tons of natural resources, manufactured products, and finished goods throughout North America every year. As the only railroad connecting Canada's Eastern and Western coasts with the Southern tip of the U.S. through a 19,500 mile rail network, CN and its affiliates have been contributing to community prosperity and sustainable trade since 1919. CN is committed to programs supporting social responsibility and environmental stewardship. At CN, we work as ONE TEAM, focused on safety, sustainability and our customers, providing operational and supply chain excellence to deliver results.
At CN, we are dedicated to building North America's safest, most inclusive and sustainable railroad, which includes reflecting the communities in which we operate. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented groups often don't apply unless they feel they fit the job posting at 100%. Even if you don't see yourself in every job requirement listed in a posting, we still encourage you to apply. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations), please reach out to our team at cnrecruitment@cn.ca.
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