Senior Project Manager/Leader – PeopleSoft HCM / ERP

• Provide project management leadership for large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk OPS GovTechON initiatives.
  
• Ensure project deliverables meet client business requirements within scope, schedule, budget, quality, and compliance expectations.
  
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain detailed project schedules and/or integrated project plans.
  
• Develop, manage, and monitor project schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and scope.
  
• Monitor and forecast project costs and provide financial reporting and recommendations to ensure project targets are achieved.
  
• Develop complex project budgets involving multiple funding channels and cross-Ministry dependencies.
  
• Manage large project budgets while maintaining strong fiscal control and accountability, including estimates, forecasts, reconciliation, and confirmation of actuals.
  
• Lead project teams and ensure deliverables are completed on time and in accordance with government and Ministry standards.
  
• Promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to established methodologies and frameworks.
  
• Coordinate and monitor project processes and develop, document, and communicate project guidelines and procedures.
  
• Source, select, and onboard project team members across multiple disciplines.
  
• Clearly define roles, responsibilities, tasks, deliverables, and performance expectations for both OPS unionized employees and Fee-for-Service (FFS) consultants.
  
• Resolve resourcing issues and interpersonal conflicts and negotiate changes to project resources as required.
  
• Ensure knowledge is effectively shared across project teams and that project objectives and deliverables remain aligned.
  
• Proactively identify potential project risks and issues and develop appropriate mitigation strategies before impacts occur.
  
• Articulate and prioritize risks and issues at senior executive levels and recommend mitigation strategies to decision makers.
  
• Establish and participate in steering committees, stakeholder forums, and governance meetings.
  
• Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multiple stakeholders at senior executive levels.
  
• Manage stakeholder expectations and provide timely project updates.
  
• Identify and address potential conflicts between project and functional areas.
  
• Apply appropriate change management strategies to overcome resistance to change and support successful adoption throughout all project stages, including concept, definition, planning, implementation, and close-out.
  
• Promote OPS I&IT standards and project management best practices to support system quality, methodology adherence, and effective use of I&IT resources.
  
• Manage project monitoring activities, anticipate and troubleshoot issues, resolve problems, and provide ongoing project-management expertise.
  
• Make recommendations regarding the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources where required.
  

Requirements

• Hands-on experience as a Project Manager leading multiple large-scale ERP projects valued at $5M+.
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, high-profile, high-risk projects from initiation through implementation and close-out.
  
• Strong experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables.
  

• Significant expertise and hands-on experience with PeopleSoft HCM applications.
  
• Extensive experience managing PeopleSoft-related projects or other HCM projects in a Project Manager capacity.
  
• Demonstrated understanding of PeopleSoft HCM implementations, upgrades, integrations, and related project delivery activities.
  

• Hands-on experience implementing PeopleSoft Fluid user interfaces.
  
• Hands-on experience implementing PeopleSoft Classic Plus user interfaces.
  
• Experience implementing and managing PeopleTools upgrades.
  
• Experience implementing and managing PeopleSoft PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager) upgrades.
  
• Ability to manage technical teams and project deliverables associated with PeopleSoft application upgrades and implementations.
  

• Experience working with the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
  
• Experience working with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and/or Windows operating systems in enterprise project environments.
  
• Experience working with Oracle Database environments.
  
• Ability to manage projects involving enterprise cloud, application, operating-system, and database technologies.
  

• Demonstrated experience working in a public sector environment.
  
• Experience managing projects involving government stakeholders, policies, standards, governance, and compliance requirements.
  
• Prior OPS/public-sector experience with HCM/PeopleSoft-related project work is highly desirable.
  

• Extensive experience as a Senior Project Manager / Project Leader.
  
• Extensive experience managing complex ERP and/or HCM implementations.
  
• Strong PeopleSoft HCM project delivery experience.
  
• Demonstrated experience with PeopleSoft Fluid and Classic Plus, PeopleTools, and PUM upgrades.
  
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments involving Azure, RHEL/Windows, and Oracle Database.
  
• Experience managing large budgets, complex schedules, multidisciplinary teams, risks, issues, dependencies, and executive-level reporting.
  
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and change-management skills.
  
• Experience working within structured government/public-sector governance environments.
  

• Knowledge and understanding of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
  
• Ability to make recommendations concerning the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
  
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring activities, anticipating and troubleshooting issues, providing ongoing expertise, resolving problems, and improving project effectiveness.
  
• Ability to identify conflicts between project and functional areas and develop appropriate responses.
  
• Strong client relationship management skills, including managing expectations, providing updates, and identifying potential conflicts between project and functional areas.
  
• Prior Ontario Public Service/public-sector experience involving PeopleSoft HCM projects is highly desirable.
  

• Large-scale $5M+ ERP project leadership
  
• Deep PeopleSoft HCM expertise
  
• PeopleSoft Fluid and Classic Plus implementation experience
  
• PeopleTools and PUM upgrade experience
  
• Azure, RHEL/Windows, and Oracle Database environment experience
  
• Public-sector/government project experience
  
• Strong financial, risk, resource, stakeholder, governance, and change-management capabilities