Project Manager

We are seeking a highly accomplished Project Manager for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier project management, enterprise infrastructure rollout, and vendor governance capacity, specializing in leading large-scale unified communications, telephony modernization, and collaboration technology deployments.

As a Project Manager, you will bridge the gap between executive leadership, cross-functional technical engineering squads, operational business leads, and external vendors. Operating within a hybrid work model in Toronto, you will lead all stages of the project lifecycle—managing project charters, detailed work breakdown structures, RAID logs, budgets, and change management frameworks. This position demands a PMP-certified leader with extensive experience driving complex, multi-site infrastructure initiatives involving Cisco Unified Communications, Microsoft Teams telephony, VoIP networks, and enterprise network security architectures.

Location: Toronto, ON

Assignment Type: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite)

Contract Duration: 1-year contract (with potential for 1-year extension)

Advantages
High-Impact Infrastructure Scope: Direct large-scale enterprise telephony, VoIP, and Microsoft Teams voice modernizations across multi-site environments.

Full-Lifecycle PM Leadership: Own end-to-end project management from initial charter development and budgeting to procurement, cutover, and operational handover.

Senior Executive Visibility: Present progress updates, negotiate project scopes, and manage key relationships across executive management and vendor leads.

Balanced Hybrid Model: Enjoy a predictable hybrid working schedule combining collaborative onsite coordination in Toronto with remote flexibility.

Responsibilities
Lead and manage all stages of the project lifecycle, defining scope, work breakdown structures, resource allocations, and detailed schedules.

Manage assigned project budgets, track financial progress, review vendor expenditures, and oversee financial management for procurements, contracts, and business cases.

Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive project plans, RAID logs (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), change requests, and critical path timelines.

Direct large-scale enterprise infrastructure migrations, including on-premises upgrades, proof-of-concept trials, cloud telephony cutovers, and hypercare support.

Oversee the drafting, evaluation, and execution of contractual procurement documents, including Statements of Work (SOW), RFPs, RFIs, MOUs, and Service Level Agreements (SLA).

Manage vendor performance, contractor deliverables, and quality control procedures in alignment with corporate standards and contract terms.

Lead cross-functional project teams, guiding technical specialists across application development, networking, and infrastructure implementation.

Apply Project Management Institute (PMI) principles, standardized methodologies, and governance frameworks to ensure project targets and milestones are met.

Establish cutover strategies, site-by-site deployment sequences, testing protocols, and operational handover packages for steady-state support teams.

Prepare clear status reports, executive briefing decks, cost-benefit analyses, and risk mitigation strategies for senior management.

Qualifications
Core Requirements & Project Management Credentials
Education & Certification: Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, alongside an active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in good standing.

Enterprise PM Experience: Proven experience managing all aspects of enterprise-wide IT projects in complex, multi-departmental environments (including budget, schedule, risk, scope, and organizational change management).

Telephony & Collaboration Domain Mastery: Demonstrated experience leading large-scale telephony and collaboration infrastructure projects involving VoIP networks, SIP-based calling, Cisco Unified Communications, and Microsoft Teams telephony solutions across multi-site enterprise environments.

Procurement & Vendor Management: Demonstrated experience overseeing vendor deliverables, negotiating contracts, managing SLAs, and drafting procurement documentation (SOW, RFP, RFI).

PM Tooling Proficiency: High proficiency in project management software (such as Microsoft Project) to manage complex schedules, critical paths, and dependencies.

Technical & Infrastructure Knowledge
Unified Communications & Voice: Deep understanding of on-premises and cloud-based Unified Communications, Microsoft Teams Voice, Direct Routing as a Service, Operator Connect, and enterprise telephony architectures.

Networking & Security Concepts: Strong working knowledge of architecture topology, high availability, Session Border Controllers, SIP trunking, VPNs, zero-trust segmentation, and enterprise networking hardware (Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet).

Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Executive Communication: Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills with proven ability to communicate project status, risks, and recommendations effectively to executive stakeholders.

People & Team Leadership: Superior people management skills to lead, mentor, and coordinate multidisciplinary technical project teams under tight timelines.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Project Manager" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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