IT Project Manager- ERP (Temporary) Category: Project Management
Main location: Canada, Quebec, Montreal
Position ID:J0826-0253
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: Duration: Temporary role for 12 months with the possibility of extension
Location: Montreal/Toronto
Bilingual: French/English required
The Project Manager will be responsible for managing all aspects of the project lifecycle, from initiation through implementation and successful project closure, for complex ERP and system conversion initiatives. The role requires proven experience managing ERP migrations, large-scale data integrity activities and system transformation programs, ensuring alignment between business requirements, operational processes, data quality, and system capabilities.
The Project Manager will ensure the objectives and goals are met and the commitments on budget, quality, scope, and schedule are achieved following the standard management practices. The Project Manager is also responsible for ensuring that the efforts of the various internal functional are integrated in the best interest of the project. The Project Manager is able to facilitate communication with all stakeholders efficiently and effectively. The Project Manager directs, manages, and coordinates team partners including technology resources, user groups, internal and external consultants, contractors as well as vendors. From a client perspective, the project manager will need to work closely with the client and manage client expectations effectively.
Your future duties and responsibilities: Key Responsibilities
1. Program & Project Leadership
• Lead complex, multi-stream finance transformation projects involving internal teams and cross-functional stakeholders
• Manage the full project lifecycle, including:
o Planning & initiation
o Execution & delivery
o Change management
o Transition into business-as-usual operations
• Ensure project phases are executed efficiently and completed on schedule.
2. ERP Migration and System Conversion
• Lead ERP implementation, migration, upgrade, consolidation, or replacement initiatives involving complex business processes and system environments
• Coordinate functional and technical workstreams, including configuration, customization, integration, reporting, security, infrastructure, and data conversion.
• Ensure business requirements and operational processes are accurately translated into system capabilities and implementation deliverables.
• Manage dependencies between legacy systems, target ERP platforms, interfaces, data repositories, and downstream applications.
• Oversee cutover planning, deployment readiness, production transition, hypercare and post-implementation stabilization.
3. Stakeholder & Client Engagement
• Build and sustain strong day-to-day relationships with client stakeholders across multiple organizational levels.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Project Sponsor, providing:
o Strategic guidance
o Decision support
o Ongoing communication
• Conduct project briefings and stakeholder sessions to review status, progress, risks, and outcomes
• Foster a collaborative partnership with the client to ensure successful delivery and adoption
4. Governance, Risk & Scope Management
• Identify, quantify, and actively manage project risks and issues, leveraging prior experience to proactively mitigate risks.
• Maintain and communicate risks, assumptions, and constraints, escalating as appropriate.
• Rigorously manage scope, timelines, and cost to ensure commitments are delivered within agreed parameters.
• Document and manage all changes to scope, cost, and schedule through structured change control processes.
5. Financial Management
• Manage and validate project financials, including: -
o Budget tracking (Managing Capex / Opex budgets)
o Forecasting
o Resource cost reconciliation
• Ensure alignment between financial performance and project delivery outcomes.
6. Monitoring & Reporting
• Define and track project milestones and maintain a detailed, integrated project schedule
• Continuously monitor and control project performance.
• Provide regular and transparent reporting to stakeholders and sponsors, including:
o Status updates
o Risks/issues
o Recommendations and corrective actions
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: Technical Skills
5+ years of proven experience of managing ERP applications and data conversion activities
Strong understanding of:
o Data conversion and ERP integration
o Financial governance and controls
• Demonstrated ability to manage global, matrixed teams and stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Experience leading steering committees and governance forums
• Expertise in:
o Risk & issue management
o Financial tracking & forecasting
o Change management
Soft Skills
• Fluent in English and French
• Strong communication skills - To help manage client expectations effectively in ever changing technology landscape
• Leadership - Project managers must demonstrate strong leadership skills to inspire and motivate the teams
• Excellent relationship management and consulting skills - This results in an ability to earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders, mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, execute with limited information and ambiguity
• Excellent vendor management, stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Excellent risk management and negotiation skills
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills which bring clarity and precision at various decision-making meetings
• Solid problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $80,000-$130,000. This role is an existing vacancy.
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Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.
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