Senior IT Program Manager

Senior IT Program Manager
Job Location-Remote (Canada)
Term: Long Term Contract

Summary General Summary

· Performs highly advanced project management activities with minimal guidance from leadership, in partnership with key stakeholders, applying considerable independent judgement and innovative completion strategies.

· The scope of activities in this role will include very large, very complex programs and/or a set of multiple projects and/or multiple workstreams in a global program.

· The IT Program Manager anticipates complex challenges and applies experience and creativity to derive technology and business solutions that support strategic initiatives across a diverse set of departments, divisions or geographies.

Principle Duties

· Applies expert knowledge of best practices, extensive project management experience, advanced domain knowledge and proven ability to solve complex problems and improve products, processes and services.

· Establishes expectations and communicates standards for effective project management across the project portfolio, including developing charters, plans, schedules, and budgets; allocating resources; monitoring performance against schedule, budget, and quality targets; managing changes, issues and risks; and providing regular communication to program teams, stakeholders, and other areas within the organization.

· Creates and manages program plans and all other well-known program controls and directs the work of other project managers.

· Anticipate risks and issues and provides complex mitigation strategies to successfully deliver complex solutions that extend beyond the department, division or region.

· Provides leadership and direction to other project management professionals and project team members to create and manage project plans and all other well-known project controls.

· Cultivates broad partnerships and applies advanced leadership strategies to develop sophisticated solutions and innovative strategies that improve products and services and deliver business value.

· Proactively monitors industry trends, client-facing new business, strategic business and technology initiatives across the organization.

· Develops insights, advocates for solutions and communicates ideas across the organization.

· Develops strategic plans to meet long term project commitments. Identifies assumptions, dependencies and constraints that may impact successful project execution and delivery of business objectives.

· Initiates cross-functional discussions and provides creative solutions to business partners based on business knowledge, domain expertise and project management experience.

· Ensures organizational change management principles and proven practices are implemented across the program to assess change readiness and greatly influence a comprehensive change management strategy that will ensure adoption of delivered solutions and realization of expected benefits.

· May supervise or manage four or fewer employees, and responsible for team's performance; coaches and mentors team members Education Required Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Preferred Master's Degree Professional designation; Project Management Professional, ITIL, or other applicable industry certification Life Insurance or financial services industry training, or applicable industry certification Experience