Project Manager

Fidelity Canada • Toronto, ON

64d • CA$105,000 - CA$164,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Fidelity Investments is a world leader in mutual funds and ETF management, known for its proprietary and disciplined research-driven investing. The company offers a complete line of products and services to investors through a network of third-party brokers and financial advisors, with a primary goal of supporting investment professionals in preparing their clients' retirement and other significant life goals. The Project Manager (PM) role is responsible for leading teams within a complex matrix environment to successfully complete projects that support multiple business lines and are cross-functional and technical in nature. Projects may follow either waterfall or agile methodologies. The PM is also accountable for the project team’s effectiveness by enabling Agile methodologies to improve its practices within its frameworks.

Requirements

• University Degree or equivalent work experience or equivalent experience.
• Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master certification.
• Project Management Professional certification.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a Project/Program Management and/ Scrum Master capacity.
• Extensive experience in leading business and systems delivery teams using Project Management and Agile methodologies.
• In-depth knowledge of Project Management and Agile frameworks, principles, and processes
• Strong coaching and leadership skills.
• Team focused with ability to teach teams how to be self-organized.
• Adaptable to change and comfortable with transparency, inspection, and adaption.
• Comfortable working with multiple teams.
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with cross divisional teams, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work with cross divisional teams, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills

Responsibilities

• Prepares project charter and develop detailed project plans including detailed scope statements, schedule and budget estimates and baselines, resource plans, quality plans and success criteria.
• Completes all required project governance gates approval forms and presentations.
• Establishes project communications and monitoring and control mechanisms.
• Manages day to day project activities ensuring deliverables are met, risks are identified and assessed, and issues are managed and resolved.
• Leads project team(s) in a matrix environment, clarifying roles & responsibilities, providing individual direction and feedback, and ensuring required communication support is in place.
• Partners with the Project Management Office to ensure portfolio, program and project management standards, processes and procedures are adhered to.
• Implements and utilizes reporting and control mechanisms, and in particular project change management approaches, to ensure the project’s triple constraints (time, cost, performance: scope and quality) are well managed and status and issues are reported to sponsors, executive sponsors and senior management on a timely basis.
• Ensures project post implementation reviews are planned and executed in compliance with Fidelity standards.
• Works with vendors, industry firms and internal Fidelity business units to explore innovative business solutions with new technologies and alternative processes.
• Participates in the preparation of RFPs, evaluate proposals, statements of work and select vendors.
• In conjunction with internal partners, participate in meetings and act as the central point of contact to manage tasks, relationships, and deliverables during the lifecycle of the project.
• Clear and concise Product goal definition and backlog items that the Project Team can easily understand and act upon.
• Address impediments related to unclear backlog items or changing scope.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration across business and technology teams.
• Periodic advisory and coaching of the organization on Agile methodologies.
• Continuous improvement reviews of the organization’s effectiveness at adopting Agile methodologies.
• Ongoing support and the removal of barriers between stakeholders and Project Teams.
• Periodic reporting of Project Team performance through well-defined Key Performance Indicators (e.g. burn-down / burn-up charts, velocity, etc.), value generation, and taking into consideration feedback from the Project Team, Business Owner, and key stakeholders.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Competitive total compensation, including company contributions to your group RRSP without a matching requirement from you.
• Comprehensive health benefits that start on your first day, with 100% employer-paid premiums, which include up to $5000 annually for mental health services and therapy.
• Parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for a period of 25 weeks.
• Up to $650 for home office equipment.
• Generous time off policy, including two paid days annually to volunteer at a charity of your choice.
• Diversity and inclusion programs, including an active network of Employee Resource Groups.
• Extensive professional development opportunities, including access to over 11,000 training and development courses, tuition reimbursement, and monetary rewards for completing a required designation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree