Project Manager

With a number of projects and partnerships on our roadmap and an eye on the future, we are looking for a Project Manager to join us. Reporting to the Manager, Strategy and Innovation, you will play a critical role as we scale, taking ownership for the seamless execution of client-facing and partner-facing projects. You will act as the champion of both the client and your teams.

Toronto, ON

Valeyo

<h4>Valeyo is a leading Canadian-based solutions provider to the financial services industry.&nbsp;In addition to being a leader in loan origination technology, we are a trusted distributor for industry-leading carriers and service providers across Canada, whose products strengthen our proprietary technologies and expand our suite of lending and insurance solutions. With more than 40 years of business excellence behind us, Valeyo unites a diverse group of insurance, technology, business, and marketing professionals with a common purpose: to help our clients thrive through strong partnerships. Through the combination of our services-driven vision and distribution expertise, we can push further and faster to provide our clients with a broader range of financial solutions for their customers.&nbsp;</h4> <h4>As an organization, we subscribe to the concept of winning as a team, working together, and implementing the best ideas put forward.&nbsp;</h4> https://valeyo.com

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Experienced

Overview: <p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p>Valeyo is a leading Canadian-based solutions provider to the financial services industry. In addition to being a leader in loan origination technology, we are a trusted distributor for industry-leading carriers and service providers across Canada. Our partners' products strengthen our proprietary technologies and expand our suite of lending and insurance solutions. With more than 40 years of business excellence behind us, Valeyo unites a diverse group of insurance, technology, business, and marketing professionals with a common purpose: to help our clients thrive through strong partnerships. Through the combination of our services-driven vision and distribution expertise, we can push further and faster to provide our clients with a broader range of financial solutions for their customers.&nbsp;</p> <p>As an organization, we subscribe to the concept of winning as a team, working together, and implementing the best ideas put forward. Guided by our core values of accountability, partner-centricity, teamwork &amp; collaboration, results-orientation, integrity, and passion, we take a unified approach to achieving our shared purpose: accelerating our success and that of our clients by building better businesses.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who we need</strong></p> <p>With a number of projects and partnerships on our roadmap and an eye on the future, we are looking for a Project Manager to join us. Reporting to the Manager, Strategy and Innovation, you will play a critical role as we scale, taking ownership for the seamless execution of client-facing and partner-facing projects. You will act as the champion of both the client and your teams.</p> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <p>You are a Project Manager, perhaps at a big four consulting firm, in FinTech, or Financial Services with deep client-facing experience. You are looking for your next set of challenges at a scaling tech solution and services company where you can apply your expertise managing a team and seeing complex deliverables to completion.</p> <p><strong>What&rsquo;s in it for you&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Impact, success, and growth</em>.</strong> This is a chance to be part of our exciting path forward as we change financial and insurance services across the country introducing innovative proprietary technology solutions to our clients. As part of a team of three project managers, you will rapidly gain exposure and take on responsibilities for highly visible client-facing projects. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact as you autonomously manage your projects successfully, with the support of your manager for escalation. You will have immediate learning opportunities with an extensive onboarding program, access to formal training, the mentorship of your manager and support from Valeyo&rsquo;s PMO Centre of Excellence. You will expand your people-leadership skills as you guide resources on their day-to-day and overall project deliverables, coaching and empowering them to do their best work.&nbsp;</p>
Responsibilities: <p><strong>What you will do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Deliver projects successfully. </strong>You will oversee projects from end-to-end, aligning results to Valeyo&rsquo;s service model and provide value to our partners. You will manage the scope, risks, issues, deliverables, and schedule of individual project tasks and deliverables, assigning project tasks, and ensuring adherence to quality standards. You will anticipate contingencies as a means of preventing, detecting, and correcting obstacles while understanding and managing impact on project plan proactively, escalating as necessary.</li> <li><strong>Build relationships.</strong> You will foster trusting relationships across all levels from executives to end-users and external partners. You will grow an understanding of business needs, and influence with organizational initiatives.</li> <li><strong>Report.</strong> You will produce accurate and timely reports on project status throughout its lifecycle and communicate with stakeholders via regularly scheduled meetings. You will measure success against critical success factors defined at the initiation of the project.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Lead the team. </strong>You will coordinate project resources, assigning tasks, reviewing individual issues and concerns, removing roadblocks, resolving conflicts, and providing support anywhere needed.</li> <li><strong>Continuous improvement. </strong>You will ensure continuous improvement of the PMO framework to meet quality standards while applying lessons learned and industry best practices within projects. You will engage in professional development activities to remain current on project management trends and innovations for our industry.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p><strong>What you bring</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>The education and experience. </strong>You may have a degree or diploma in a technical or business discipline and 3+ years of client-facing project management experience in technology solutions. Ideally, you have exposure to FinTech, Financial services or the Insurance industry. PMP or PMI-ACP Certification is an asset.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>The accountability and collaboration.</strong> You take ownership of your team, your projects, and their combined impact on the company's ability to be successful. You have a collaborative spirit and can build productive relationships across the organization, influencing without authority. You have a genuine interest in understanding others, hearing their perspectives, and addressing their concerns. You think creatively and have an analytical approach to problem solving, and task and time management.</li> <li><strong>The adaptability. </strong>You thrive in an evolving environment and stepping up to different challenges every day. You can seamlessly adapt to changes in priorities, the business, or the industry. You have the confidence to take new ideas forward and productively challenge the status quo.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>The communication skills. </strong>You have outstanding professional written, verbal, and presentation skills. You have a proven ability to guide the work of a team, resolve conflict, remove roadblocks, and encourage high quality results. You ask intelligent questions to obtain information, identify root causes, and determine a solution.</li> <li><strong>The technical toolkit.</strong> You have advanced knowledge of productivity tools including MS Office including MS Project, SharePoint, defect/bug tracking system, and Zoom. Exposure to lending or loan origination systems and the application service provider model is an asset.</li> <li><strong>The project management expertise. </strong>You are an experienced Project Manager with insights into consumer and commercial lending best practices. You work with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm, fostering a strong team environment of collaboration and continuous learning. You thrive in the role of a bridge between teams, driving results that exceed expectations.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The Valeyo Way:</strong></p> <p>Through collaboration and innovation, everything we do at Valeyo is focused on people - those we help and those we hire.&nbsp;</p> <p>It's #thevaleyoway to empower our people with autonomy to make decisions that align with our values, to treat each other with compassion focusing on what we can accomplish as a team; and to recognize our individual and collective efforts.&nbsp;</p> <p>We share a passion and drive for success and are a proudly diverse team. Embracing our differences enhances everything we are involved in, from our social awareness as an organization, to our creative problem solving, to the communities we support.&nbsp;</p> <p>We offer our team the best of both worlds: a fast-paced, innovative FinTech environment and an established organization. This includes:</p> <ul> <li>A healthy, fulfilling work-life balance through a flexible hybrid work model, a Health and Personal Spending Account. Plus the comprehensive benefits and perks of a financially stable organization including Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with a company match for Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) and a generous paid-time-off policy including vacation, personal/sick time, wellness day and statutory holidays.</li> <li>A continuously evolving people-first environment that takes time to have some fun (virtual team building events including scavenger hunts, charity drives, FitBit challenges, photo challenges, and virtual social events, including team lunches, and once we're able to safely do so, awesome potlucks, costume competitions, and karaoke battles) while providing access to professional development opportunities through training and educational assistance programs.</li> <li>A bigger than us outlook. Every year we offer $1000 grants to students who are credit union members. It's just one of the ways we support financial opportunity and growth beyond our virtual walls and in the community.</li> </ul> <p>If you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for and want to be part of success, we encourage you to express your interest. We can't promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience. Apply now.</p> <p>Valeyo is committed to providing a barrier-free work environment in concert with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. As such, Valeyo will provide reasonable accommodations available to applicants with disabilities upon request during the recruitment process. Please contact careers@valeyo.com for accommodation requests.</p>