Senior Project Manager

Adecco is currently hiring a Senior Project Manager to join a high-performing product team within a leading financial services environment. This role is central to driving complex initiatives forward, ensuring alignment across multiple workstreams, and supporting successful product launches from planning through execution.

• Salary: $48.66/hour
• Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 3–4 days in office; 5 days onsite for the first 1–2 months)
• Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Job Type: Full-time | Temporary

Responsibilities

• Act as the main coordination point for initiatives involving multiple business sectors and partners
• Build and maintain strong relationships with project managers across partner teams
• Align on timelines, priorities, and shared dependencies across all stakeholders
• Facilitate discussions to resolve conflicts, manage competing priorities, and maintain progress
• Identify and track downstream dependencies resulting from cross-sector initiatives

• Coordinate internal initiatives from initiation to completion, ensuring timelines are met
• Maintain visibility across all active workstreams, ensuring alignment on priorities and sequencing
• Plan and facilitate key delivery sessions including discovery workshops and stakeholder meetings
• Manage intake and prioritization of internal initiatives, including those driven by external dependencies

• Develop and maintain high-level project plans for product launches
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build realistic, dependency-aware launch plans
• Lead recurring governance meetings, ensuring clear ownership of decisions and action items
• Assess readiness across teams and coordinate communication strategies for successful launches
• Monitor active launches for risks, conflicts, and resource constraints, taking proactive action

• Identify, track, and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across all initiatives
• Investigate issues, develop mitigation strategies, and present recommendations to leadership
• Support leadership decision-making with clear analysis and actionable insights
• Escalate risks and decisions appropriately, ensuring timely resolution

• Must be eligible to work and reside within Canada
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce, Project Management, or a related field
• PMP certification (or equivalent) required
• 7–10+ years of project management experience within financial services, fintech, or regulated environments
• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives across cross-functional teams
• Strong experience with project documentation including project plans, risk logs, and status reports
• Proficiency with tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, or Microsoft Project
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leadership
• Experience supporting product launches, change management, and organizational readiness
• Bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset
• Highly self-driven with strong ownership mindset
• Ability to connect teams and drive collaboration across organizational boundaries
• Thrives in dynamic environments with multiple priorities
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills
• Calm and effective under pressure
• Clear and proactive communicator with attention to detail

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