Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in planning, leading and delivering complex, cross-functional projects that support the organization’s strategic priorities and business objectives. Reporting to the Senior Manager, PMO, the Senior Project Manager is accountable for project delivery from initiation through completion, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, stakeholder engagement and outcomes.

The Senior Project Manager provides leadership and structure across project teams, facilitates effective decision-making, and ensures projects are delivered with a clear focus on business value, quality and sustainable outcomes.

About Numeris

Numeris is Canada’s most trusted and authoritative source for broadcast measurement and consumer behaviour data. As well, the industry leading intelligence provider to broadcasters, advertisers, and agencies. We have been recognized for over 75 years as providing the gold standard in audience intelligence.

We have great people who do exceptional work. We take pride in building an environment of continuous learning and career advancement opportunities. Our teams are collaborative, curious, and dedicated to creating quality experiences. We love what we do, enjoy each other’s company, and support initiatives to give back to our communities. We are looking for people to help us shape the future of Numeris, and have a lot of fun along the way.

Stronger Together: We succeed through collaboration with each other and with the industry. Unity drives our impact.

Innovation with Intent: We embrace change and challenge convention. Our innovation is purposeful, driven by insights, guided by strategy, and focused on delivering meaningful future-proofed solutions.

We Before Me: We put shared goals at the centre of how we work. By supporting one another, sharing accountability, and valuing diverse perspectives, we create an environment where people contribute fully and teams achieve more together.

We pursue continuous improvement in everything we do, from our processes to our time to market. With a growth mindset and a commitment to excellence, we bring solutions to life with precision and purpose.

Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery

• Lead the development and execution of comprehensive project plans, including scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, resources and success measures.
• Lead projects from initiation through implementation and formal closure, ensuring deliverables and outcomes are achieved.
• Manage multiple projects and competing priorities while maintaining focus on key milestones and business objectives.

Strategic Alignment & Business Outcomes

• Ensure projects are aligned with organizational strategy, priorities and business objectives.
• Establish clear measures of project success and monitor progress toward intended business outcomes and benefits.
• Provide recommendations to support project prioritization, sequencing and resource decisions where appropriate.
• paths and reporting.
• Provide regular project status updates, including progress, risks, issues, dependencies, budget
• Establish and maintain appropriate project governance, decision-making processes, escalationand decisions required.
• Escalate significant issues and risks in a timely manner and provide recommendations for resolution.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, stakeholders and cross-functional project teams.
• Facilitate effective collaboration and decision-making across teams and stakeholders with differing priorities.
• Provide leadership, direction and support to teams, influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• Works closely with product leaders on delivery.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Identify, assess and proactively manage project risks and issues, developing appropriate mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Identify and manage dependencies across projects, teams and organizational initiatives.
• Monitor changes to project scope, timelines, resources and requirements and assess their impact on project outcomes.

Budget & Resource Management

• Develop and manage project budgets, monitor expenditures and ensure adherence to approved financial parameters.
• Identify resource and capacity requirements and proactively address constraints or competing demands.
• Monitor project performance against approved scope, schedule, budget and resources.
• Manage external vendors and partners where applicable, including deliverables, timelines, performance, contracts and issue resolution.
• Provide interim support for routine procurement activities, including gathering business requirements, obtaining and comparing vendor quotes, coordinating purchase requests and approvals, and tracking renewals to support business continuity.
• Collaborate with Finance and relevant stakeholders to ensure purchasing activities follow established policies, remain within approved budgets and maintain appropriate documentation, supporting a smooth handover to a dedicated procurement specialist.

Quality & Change Management

• Ensure project deliverables meet established quality standards, requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead project change management activities, supporting effective adoption and transition to new processes, systems or ways of working.
• Assess and communicate the organizational impact of significant project changes.

Project Documentation & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain accurate and timely project documentation, including project plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, meeting records, decisions and other project artifacts.
• Lead project close-out activities, including evaluation of outcomes, lessons learned and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Identify opportunities to improve project management practices, tools and processes and contribute to PMO standards and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• PMP or

Pay

The indicated pay range reflects the salary range established by Numeris for this role. Actual offers may vary based on relevant skills, qualifications, experience, and training. This range serves as a general guideline for compensation discussions.

Numeris is an equal opportunity employer

We are committed to creating an accessible environment for all our employees and foster a culture that focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We believe that a diverse workforce helps everyone contribute in meaningful ways towards our shared success.