Project Manager – 23-00467

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Calgary (Local)

Employment Type: ( contract)

Duration: 12Months



About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.





Job opportunity for Project Manager in Oil Industry and/or in the Trading Domain

Position Description

As a project manager, you will work with project teams and driving project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling, and closure. You will manage multiple projects across different platforms; lead technical and strategic direction; and collaborate with a cross-discipline team of engineers, management, and customers to design innovative solutions for our clients. The role is a significant position that involves working with customers and other stakeholders by developing and implementing solutions in a complex, highly dynamic environment.



Your future duties and responsibilities



• Managing the implementation through the entire lifecycle and ensuring that the project is delivered on time, at the agreed cost and with the required quality

• Ensuring that the optimal resources are assigned to the project

• Providing guidance and leadership to the resources seconded to the project

• Ensuring that the project scope is clearly defined and managed in a structured way

• Producing and delivering a well-defined and detailed plan outlining all project milestones and activities. There will be a need to work with other stakeholders to align planning and deliverables.

• Ensuring that all dependencies are identified and managed.

• Ensuring that the critical path is identified

• Producing budget estimates, follow actuals and manage spend vs. budget

• Ensuring that the data preparation and data migration from legacy systems to new solutions are managed and on schedule

• Ensuring timely testing of the solution and that there are no major defects before handover to the business

• Collaboration and communication with all relevant stakeholder groups, including local business teams, local IST and relevant third-party suppliers

• Representing the project in Management meetings

• Ensuring that all interfaces are identified and managed

• Working actively to ensure that risks and issues are identified, managed and mitigated.

• Ensuring that the change management is well executed and that the client organisation is prepared for the changes

• Escalating any issue to the client and conveying the client's instructions to other stakeholders.



Required qualifications to be successful in this role

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:



The preferred candidate should already have a proven track-record in the Oil Industry and/or in the Trading Domain and a strong background in project management.



The candidate should have been involved in managing several implementations and have exposure to a number of Oil operators, Trading companies and/or service companies. The candidate should have experience in managing people and leading teams.



The candidate should have a positive attitude and be able to proactively pursue and prioritize tasks, whilst juggling a wide variety of activities simultaneously. This person must be excited by change, naturally prone to work as a team player, and willing to get involved and take ownership of a wide variety of challenges.