Role: Senior Product Manager
Client: Ontario Government
Job Type: Contract
Term: 12 Months
Workplace Type: Hybrid / Onsite
Pay Rate: Negotiable
Start date: 2-3 weeks
Location: Toronto, ON
Language: English
Clearance: N/A
ATS ID #: 9946
Requirements: What you'll need
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:
Relationship Management
- Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
- Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills
- Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
Product Management – Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling & Reporting
- Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
- Ability to create and maintain a product road map which describes how your product is likely to evolve over time.
- Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
- Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan
- Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels;
- Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
Technical Skills
- Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform
- Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams
- Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker
Soft Skills
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives
Must have:
- Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
- Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
- Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- 8+ years of experience
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