Join our client, a major financial institution, as a Project Manager. Your primary mission is to manage, develop, and meticulously maintain the project plan for this high-profile relocation initiative. This is a role for a seasoned professional who can operate with minimal direction on complex projects, applying expert-level knowledge of project
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management principles. You'll be the crucial link between various internal business units, ensuring alignment across all workstreams and coordinating every detail—from high-level strategy to essential daily "to-do's"—to prepare teams for the move. Expect to analyze data, identify risks, manage critical reporting, and deliver executive-level presentations that keep leadership informed and the project on track.
This is a 10-month contract located in downtown Toronto.
Advantages
-High-Impact Visibility: This is a career-defining project directly impacting the entire organization. Your work will be visible to executives and senior leadership.
-Expert Environment: You'll be working closely with a dedicated hiring manager and a core team, taking on a leadership role and exercising significant latitude to control the project.
-Hybrid Flexibility: Enjoy a blend of remote work with an engaging team presence—in-office every Wednesday and every third Friday.
-Extension Potential: While initially a 10-month contract, there is a possibility for extension, offering stability and continued involvement in a major initiative.
-Focus on the Big Picture: This is a strategic, non-technical role focused entirely on communication, coordination, and ensuring organizational readiness—no need to dive deep into IT infrastructure!
Responsibilities
-Project Orchestration: Develop, maintain, and execute the detailed project plan, setting goals, defining resource requirements, and managing costs with precision.
-Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary business-facing contact, managing communications with internal business units from executive to management levels.
-Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify risks to the project schedule, assess potential issues, and recommend swift, corrective actions.
-Workstream Integration: Ensure flawless alignment and synchronization across all 23 workstreams (including People Change Management, Relationship Management, and the Move Team) by extracting and managing business-facing components.
-Executive Communication: Prepare and deliver compelling presentations to management, clearly communicating project status, changes, and milestone achievements.
-Logistics & Readiness: Oversee stack plan alignment, coordinate move-in logistics across all business units, and ensure overall organizational readiness.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
-Experience: 7-10 years of demonstrable experience as a Project Manager in complex, cross-functional environments.
-Industry Expertise: Direct, working experience in real estate, workplace transformation, or major relocation projects.
-Executive Engagement: Proven track record of successfully engaging with executives and senior stakeholders across multiple business units.
-Project Proficiency: Expert proficiency in MS Tools, including PowerPoint and MS Project, for planning and executive-level reporting.
-Core Skill: A history of successfully developing and executing detailed project plans from the ground up.
Nice to Haves:
-Prior experience within a Financial Institution (FI).
-A certified PMP (Project Management Professional) designation—the gold star of project mastery!
Summary
If you are an independent, highly organized Project Manager with an eye for detail and the experience to manage a massive corporate move without breaking a sweat, this is your next challenge. We're looking for a driven, communicative professional who thrives on collective success and can deftly connect the granular details to the broader organizational impact. This is your chance to lead one of the most significant workplace transformations in the city. Your move.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Join our client, a major financial institution, as a Project Manager. Your primary mission is to manage, develop, and meticulously maintain the project plan for this high-profile relocation initiative. This is a role for a seasoned professional who can operate with minimal direction on complex projects, applying expert-level knowledge of project management principles. You'll be the crucial link between various internal business units, ensuring alignment across all workstreams and coordinating every detail—from high-level strategy to essential daily "to-do's"—to prepare teams for the move. Expect to analyze data, identify risks, manage critical reporting, and deliver executive-level presentations that keep leadership informed and the project on track.
This is a 10-month contract located in downtown Toronto.
Advantages
-High-Impact Visibility: This is a career-defining project directly impacting the entire organization. Your work will be visible to executives and senior leadership.
-Expert Environment: You'll be working closely with a dedicated hiring manager and a core team, taking on a leadership role and exercising significant latitude to control the project.
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-Hybrid Flexibility: Enjoy a blend of remote work with an engaging team presence—in-office every Wednesday and every third Friday.
-Extension Potential: While initially a 10-month contract, there is a possibility for extension, offering stability and continued involvement in a major initiative.
-Focus on the Big Picture: This is a strategic, non-technical role focused entirely on communication, coordination, and ensuring organizational readiness—no need to dive deep into IT infrastructure!
Responsibilities
-Project Orchestration: Develop, maintain, and execute the detailed project plan, setting goals, defining resource requirements, and managing costs with precision.
-Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary business-facing contact, managing communications with internal business units from executive to management levels.
-Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify risks to the project schedule, assess potential issues, and recommend swift, corrective actions.
-Workstream Integration: Ensure flawless alignment and synchronization across all 23 workstreams (including People Change Management, Relationship Management, and the Move Team) by extracting and managing business-facing components.
-Executive Communication: Prepare and deliver compelling presentations to management, clearly communicating project status, changes, and milestone achievements.
-Logistics & Readiness: Oversee stack plan alignment, coordinate move-in logistics across all business units, and ensure overall organizational readiness.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
-Experience: 7-10 years of demonstrable experience as a Project Manager in complex, cross-functional environments.
-Industry Expertise: Direct, working experience in real estate, workplace transformation, or major relocation projects.
-Executive Engagement: Proven track record of successfully engaging with executives and senior stakeholders across multiple business units.
-Project Proficiency: Expert proficiency in MS Tools, including PowerPoint and MS Project, for planning and executive-level reporting.
-Core Skill: A history of successfully developing and executing detailed project plans from the ground up.
Nice to Haves:
-Prior experience within a Financial Institution (FI).
-A certified PMP (Project Management Professional) designation—the gold star of project mastery!
Summary
If you are an independent, highly organized Project Manager with an eye for detail and the experience to manage a massive corporate move without breaking a sweat, this is your next challenge. We're looking for a driven, communicative professional who thrives on collective success and can deftly connect the granular details to the broader organizational impact. This is your chance to lead one of the most significant workplace transformations in the city. Your move.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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