Project Manager II

St Anne's Rd Head Office
540 St Anne's Road
Winnipeg, MB R2M 5R7, CAN

Assiniboine Credit Union is hiring for the position of a permanent Full-Time Project Manager II to work at the PMO & Integration department.

• This role requires to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• This role will be an hybrid position: some days working from home, and other days at the Head Office (540 St Anne's Rd, Winnipeg MB, R2M 5R7).
• The position offers a competitive compensation plan, including health and dental benefits, matched pension, and 3 weeks of vacation.

Reporting to the Manager, Project Management, the Project Manager II is a senior project management professional responsible for end-to-end leadership and delivery of large-scale, complex, and high-impact projects or programs that advance ACU's strategic priorities. This role owns the delivery of multi-stream projects with significant organizational risk, complexity, and interdependencies, requiring advanced judgment, autonomy, and ability to influence stakeholders. The Project Manager II is accountable for ensuring requirements are defined and aligned to intended outcomes and leads the integration of change management activities to support successful adoption, business readiness, and sustained outcomes.

The Project Manager II acts as a strategic partner to leaders, senior leaders, and executive sponsors, influencing delivery approaches and supporting informed decision making. The role enforces and evolves PMO standards and provides mentorship and guidance to Project Manager I peers. The Project Manager II ensures disciplined delivery, strong governance, and sustained business outcomes aligned with organizational priorities. This role supports Assiniboine Credit Union/ Caisse Assiniboine (ACU)'s commitment to rural and agricultural communities, francophone services, values-based banking and ACU's triple bottom line accountability to people, planet, and prosperity.

• Support identification and drafting of opportunity assessments (initiatives) with business leaders and VP of PMO & BI to align with organizational goals.
• Assess opportunities for feasibility, risks, and dependencies, applying sound judgment to complex or evolving opportunities.
• Consider change impacts and organizational capacity when assessing initiatives to help prevent overlap, competing demands, or change fatigue.

• Lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional projects or programs, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and dependencies across multiple departments/divisions.
• Own and manage project planning, governance, and delivery execution, exercising independent judgment to resolve issues, remove roadblocks, implement mitigation strategies and contingency plans, escalating only material risks.
• Serve as the escalation point for project issues and support resolution through collaboration and structured decision-making.
• Provide executive-level project reporting and decision support, including status, risk, change impacts, and clear recommendations tailored to the audience and level of leadership.
• Lead cross-functional project teams, fostering accountability, collaboration, and high performance without direct authority.
• Ensure effective risk, issue, and quality management, including smooth transitions to operations, and measurement of post-implementation outcomes and benefits realization.
• Oversee third-party vendors and contractors including contract negotiations and ensure delivery and contractual compliance.
• Ensure all project documentation meets PMO standards and audit requirements; capture lessons learned to strengthen delivery practices.
• Develop detailed implementation plans to ensure solutions are ready for deployment and remain aligned to approved project scope, requirements, and governance artifacts.
• Lead the development of an Operationalization (transfer-to-business) document, ensuring clear hand-off of ownership, processes, controls, and support models to enable business readiness and reduce post-implementation issues.
• Manage post-implementation review activities to evaluate project outcomes, capture lessons learned, and ensure benefits are realized.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including executive sponsors, to ensure engagement, alignment, and buy-in.
• Act as a strategic advisor to business leaders, IT/Digital teams, and vendors by facilitating decision making, evaluating options, to support effective solution delivery.
• Support complex business process analysis and redesign to enable scalable, efficient, and future-ready operations.
• Oversee the translation of business needs into functional requirements and manage scope and changes throughout the solution lifecycle across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Support build-versus-buy assessments and oversee user acceptance testing (UAT) to confirm solutions meet approved business…