Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Your mind is constantly analyzing. Strategizing. Improving. When given a target, you find a way to get there. We’re excited to see how your ingenuity will help us continue to drive growth through the expansion of our user base while increasing the frequency and retention of our current users.
Position Overview and Key Responsibilities:
A Director – Project Management will be responsible for leading the process definition and improvements that align projects to perform at maximum effectiveness. You will help structure and lead a team of highly specialized Project Managers. You will be counted upon to provide experience, expertise and thought leadership to this team. You will also drive commercial projects and enablement efforts through collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders such as Restaurants, Marketing, Customer Support, Legal, Tech and others who own deliverables.
You will be an essential leader in driving the planning, scheduling, and coordination of cross-functional projects. You’ll work closely with internal teams, providing leadership and execution capabilities to ensure business units are able to deliver and sustain the full benefits of project management standards, methodologies, and best practices. While engaging internal stakeholders, your role is to lead, oversee and ensure effective project delivery and sustainable project benefits.
In addition, this person will bring an analytical capability that enables Skip to continually improve performance and drive new revenue growth.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Provides strong leadership, technical guidance, coaching, support and project oversight to Project Managers and project delivery teams.
Develops working relationships with stakeholders in a proactive and professional manner.
Participates in project meetings to provide guidance and direction to Project Management delivery teams and ensure appropriate strategic direction is set for each project plan.
Engages and interacts with Project Management delivery teams to develop detailed project plans, schedules and budgets to ensure the highest quality of output in accordance to project requirements.
Monitor project reporting, both status and financial, to ensure all project activity is tracking to plan and all milestones are monitored within a risk management framework.
Resolve escalated issues in collaboration with stakeholders in a timely manner to ensure project milestones are maintained.
Responsible for identifying training needs, tracking performance, coaching, and motivating direct reports. Provides input into hiring, terminating, compensation, and performance evaluation.
People We’re Looking For:
Post Secondary degree or diploma, preferably in project management, engineering, or business administration and a minimum of 10 years of related experience and/or training.
Experience and ability to manage, train, cultivate and motivate PM talent within a fast-paced and growing environment.
Excellent communication, collaboration, listening, presentation and writing skills.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Experience working in an agile development environment.
What It’s Like to work At Skip:
Picture this: You, dressed in your fave casual attire, amongst a diverse team of friendly and passionate colleagues. Where we work to make sure all voices are heard, all differences valued, all people treated fairly. You take pride in knowing your input and uniqueness are not only embraced but make an impact on a national food delivery platform with deep Canadian roots and its satisfied customers.
As the company grows, so do you — not only do you meet and surpass new challenges every day, but you have the opportunity to get involved, making a real difference in your and Skip’s future. With committees like Skip’s BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) Network and Women In Tech alongside our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) work with organizations like Pride and United Way Winnipeg, you have the opportunity for not only your voice to be heard but for your actions to make an impact, joining a cause that you’re passionate about.
That’s just a small taste of what it’s like to work at one of Canada’s leading tech companies. If you’re hungry for opportunity, growth, and something meaningful in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Skip The Dishes is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment activities and will work with all applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.
Note: All employees will be asked to sign a Consent for Disclosure of Personal Information in order to complete a background check. Job offers will be conditional upon results that the Company determines to be satisfactory.
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