Product Manager

Role: Product Manager
📍Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid- 3 days in office)
💼Duration: 2 Months Contract
Note: Need only Canadian Authorized candidate.
Must haves: Must Haves:
•         Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and Core Team Members to Ensure Client Products are Progressing According to Schedule or Product Roadmap.
•         Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
•         Experience with identification of risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
Skills:
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
•         Project Manager / Leader (Product Manager) – Senior, Evaluation Criteria Breakdown
Relationship Management – 35%
•         Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
•         Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills
•         Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
Product Management – Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling & Reporting – 35%
•         Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
•         Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
•         Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
•         Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan
•         Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels;
•         Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
Technical Skills – 10%
•         Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform
•         Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams
•         Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker.