senior program manager.

We are seeking a highly accomplished, delivery-focused Senior Program Manager to provide strategic oversight and comprehensive leadership for large-scale, complex, and high-profile I&IT initiatives. In this role, you will take full accountability for a centralized portfolio of concurrent projects, guiding them through their entire lifecycle from strategic inception to operational transition. You will act as a pivotal advisor to senior leadership, transforming executive expectations into actionable program deliverables, optimizing complex cross-organizational funding channels, and ensuring all technology solutions are delivered efficiently, cost-effectively, and in strict alignment with enterprise frameworks.

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid / Onsite Options Available)

Duration: 9-month contract

Advantages
High-Profile Scale: Lead enterprise-wide, multi-jurisdictional digital transformation initiatives that directly shape core technology roadmaps.

Executive Exposure: Partner directly with senior technical directors and executive steering committees, driving high-level consensus.

Strategic Autonomy: Own the full programmatic playbook—directing multi-layered budgets, project interdependencies, and strategic vendor allocations.

Talent Orchestration: Empower and develop a collaborative, high-performing matrix team of dedicated Project Managers and engineering leads.

Responsibilities
Strategic Program Governance: Lead and oversee the end-to-end development of program strategies, business planning frameworks, benefits identification models, and formal organizational funding requests.

Portfolio Interdependency Mapping: Provide a macro-level, consolidated view of project interdependencies and external system constraints, monitoring and reporting exposure levels to maintain timeline alignment.

Executive Liaison & Delivery: Manage and articulate I&IT executive expectations, translating high-level business goals into concrete program deliverables, status briefs, and technical milestones.

Matrix Team Leadership: Direct and mentor multidisciplinary project structures, providing clear oversight to multiple individual Project Managers while coaching and developing internal technical talent.

Financial & Budgetary Management: Develop and manage complex program budgets dependent on multiple funding channels, cross-organizational resources, and shared service allocations.

Proactive Risk Frameworks: Analyze organizational environments to isolate systemic issues, prioritize risks for senior executives, and author decisive mitigation strategies to keep delivery schedules on track.

Stakeholder Consultation & Consensus: Facilitate complex stakeholder consultations, running workshops and steering committee forums to establish consensus across competing business priorities.

Change Leadership & Innovation: Drive organizational change management strategies to mitigate resistance, while continuously evaluation unique business processes and emerging technologies to optimize project outcomes.

Procurement Support: Author comprehensive documentation to develop business and technical requirements, contributing directly to Request for Bids (RFB) processes and structural architecture gating evaluations.

Qualifications
Core Seniority: 10+ years of progressive professional experience leading large-scale, high-risk, and multi-jurisdictional IT program portfolios.

Executive Communication: Elite interpersonal and presentation skills, with a proven track record of distilling dense technical performance metrics into clear strategies for senior executive and technical leadership groups.

Strategic Planning Acumen: Expert capability guiding enterprise initiatives from conceptual design, business case formulation, and resource capacity planning through to active operations.

Methodological Expertise: In-depth, master-level knowledge of the Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) alongside industry-standard Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery frameworks.

Risk & Financial Management: Demonstrated experience handling multi-million dollar budgets with complex, multi-channel funding complexities, paired with advanced risk modeling capabilities.

Procurement & Requirements Literacy: Direct experience building structural technical requirements and assembling enterprise-level Request for Bids (RFB) packages.

Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience).

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Program Manager" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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