Position Title: Project Manager

Location: Vancouver

The Company:

Burntsand is a North American leader in the delivery of technology consulting services for customers with complex information processing and information management requirements in three practice areas - Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration and Service Management - aligned around our strategic partners, EMC, Microsoft and BMC. The Company delivers strategic design, technology architecture and custom application development through our proven Time-to-Value methodology, which mitigates business risk and speeds process improvements and returns. Headquartered in Toronto, Burntsand operates from locations across North America. The Company's shares (TSX: BRT) are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Learn more about Burntsand at www.burntsand.com

Our Collaboration Practice:

Burntsand's Collaboration solutions focus on creating workflows to deliver automation. Many organizations still rely heavily on a variety of information sources. Our solutions allow distributed information access as well as extensibility, simple administration and interoperability. An early adopter of sophisticated Microsoft applications and an award winning Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, we have developed best-in-class solutions. These solutions increase organizational productivity through integrated applications, information sharing, and content management. Burntsand's deep expertise in Microsoft .NET, SharePoint, and Dynamics CRM technology enable us to optimize the value of technology for our clients. Due to our success in delivering high quality Microsoft technology solutions to our clients, Burntsand is expanding it's Microsoft Practice in Vancouver

Role Responsibilities:

As a Burntsand consultant, your duties will include interacting with user, business and executive groups to help define the client's needs and translating those needs into a solution of value. As a partner to our clients, we do what is necessary to help them be a success. The ability to empathize with and understand the business needs of the client is one of the single most important characteristics you bring to the job as well as a great attitude toward teamwork and superb technical ability. Burntsand's team of highly trained and specialized consultants differentiates us from other technology services firms. As a Project Manager, you will manage fixed price as well as T&M project engagements. These consulting engagements require heavy client interaction to manage expectations of project deliverables, scope, budget and deadlines. This role offers the tremendous satisfaction and responsibility of delivering high value solutions to our client's business problems. You will:

Manage Project Scope, Risk, Change, Project Protocol (QA, quality assurance, team reference guide, communication plan, and setting up the environment), Resources, Administration, Track and Control and Status Reporting.
Develop efficient project plans (and estimates) and effectively implement, drive and coordinate these plans.
Schedule and facilitate meetings to provide status, obtain sign off, resolve critical issues, and work through project scheduling conflicts. Anticipate and effectively deal with problems and roadblocks.
Perform Business Analyst functions such as: eliciting, documenting, and managing business requirements; documenting the gaps between current state and future state; writing use cases.
Implement and/or work within a budget.
Effectively communicate project status to the project team and to executives.
Create professional presentations to communicate project information effectively.

Role Requirements:

Prior project management experience (Minimum of 5+ years).
Strong Business Analyst skills (requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, use case development, gap analysis).
Experience managing custom software development projects (as opposed to simply packaged software implementations).
Solid understating of two or more waterfall or rapid application development software development lifecycle methodologies (RUP * Rational Unified Process, MSF * Microsoft Solutions Framework, Scrum, Agile, eXtreme, DSDM, etc.).
Experience developing proposals, and Statements of Work.
Excellent project management skills, excellent time management skills, effective planning, management and control of projects.
Proven ability to work with cross functional teams.
Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline intensive environment.
Strong Microsoft Project skills.
Solid oral and written communication skills.
Solid planning and organization skills.
Excellent people skills - demonstrated ability to work with both technical and non-technical individuals, both in gathering information and communicating direction and status.
Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) in Computer Science or related field.
Prior consulting experience (strong preference, though not an absolute requirement).
PMP or CMM certification.
Prior business analysis background or software development background.
Familiarity with UML business requirements and process modeling artifacts (Use Case Diagrams, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, etc.).
Experience assisting customer account team to identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities while continually driving add-on business within existing accounts.
Diplomatic (all great consultants display this trait).
Technically adept (you have current skills and are able to deploy them across a variety of projects and solutions).
Communication (you can converse with customer and team members of all levels).
Committed (to your customer, your team and your project).

If you are looking for an environment in which you can challenge yourself and develop new skills in a collaborative, team-based environment, we think you'll like it here. Our consultants - from creative designers to technical architects and project managers - are some of the best you will work with in your career. We encourage and expect Responsibility, Accountability, Trust, Respect, Recognition and Leadership from all our employees. We hope you will become part of the team.

Burntsand is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We thank all applicants for their interest in advance, and advise that only candidates being considered will be contacted.

No telephone calls or agencies please.

While Burntsand appreciates the interest of all applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview