Enable delivery execution by ensuring coordination, visibility, and readiness across squads.
Support the development and maintenance of program and initiative-level plans, including scope, timelines, deliverables, and resource tracking.
Assist in stakeholder coordination by preparing status updates, gathering inputs, and maintaining regular communication across team members and sponsors.
Contribute to program governance by preparing materials for steering committees and delivery forums, and ensuring adherence to established processes.
Coordinate and track activities across squads, ensuring alignment on priorities, dependencies, and milestones.
Identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies, supporting mitigation planning and resolution.
Monitor delivery progress against defined plans, ensuring accurate reporting of KPIs, milestones, and status updates.
Support change management activities, including updates to scope, schedule, and financials under guidance from Delivery Program Managers.
Support updates to scope, schedule, and financial tracking, ensuring changes are accurately captured and communicated under guidance from Delivery Program Managers.
Support change management activities, including coordination of delivery and implementation windows to ensure readiness and alignment across teams.
Maintain delivery artifacts (plans, RAID logs, status reports) to ensure consistency, accuracy, and audit readiness.
Assist in program closure activities, including documentation, reporting, and lessons learned.
Operate within established delivery standards, tools, and frameworks to ensure consistency across initiatives.
Requirements
3-5 years of experience in a senior project coordination or associate project manager role within IT.
Attention to detail and strong organizational skills along with a proactive mindset is a core requirement.
Understanding of technical product and delivery lifecycle fundamentals.
Knowledge of IT infrastructure projects is considered an asset.
Financial management: Basic budgeting support, assisting with forecasting, accruals, and variance analysis.
Scope Management: Supporting definition and tracking of outcomes, MVPs, epics, stories, and milestones.
Resource Management: Assisting with resource intake, tracking and coordination across internal and partner teams, ensuring work is appropriately staffed and ready for execution.
Risk Management: Identifying and tracking risks/issues, supporting mitigation planning, and escalating where required.
Working knowledge of Agile methodologies (including SAFe).
Familiarity with Scrum and Kanban delivery practices.
Excellent collaboration, teamwork, and communication skills across multiple teams and levels of an organization, along with empathy and emotional intelligence.
Working experience with the MS Suite is required, especially Excel and PowerPoint, along with Jira.
Knowledge of Confluence, Lucid, Delivery Central, MS Project, and Planview is desired.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
Performance incentives
Continuing Education Programs
Other perks to support your well-being
Career growth opportunities and product discounts
Associate Project Manager, Infrastructure at Canadian Tire Corporation | JobVerse