Program Director

Title: Program Lead, Real Estate Transformation

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Contract role 1 year

We are seeking a highly experienced and results-driven Program Lead, Real Estate Transformation to lead the delivery of a portfolio of strategic workplace, office modernization, and real estate initiatives across our organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in fast-paced, complex environments and enjoys bringing structure, accountability, and execution excellence to large-scale transformation programs. You will serve as the central point of coordination across multiple programs, project teams, business leaders, and external partners to ensure successful delivery of critical real estate initiatives.

The successful candidate will combine strong program management capabilities with executive stakeholder management, governance leadership, risk mitigation, and portfolio oversight experience.

Key Points

• Leadership & Coordination: The role provides day-to-day mentorship, point of escalation, coordination, prioritization, and workflow direction to assigned project managers; however, it has no people leadership, performance management, hiring, compensation, or talent management responsibilities
• Program Orchestration & Multi-Workstream Management: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple concurrent real estate transformation programs. Oversee a portfolio of high-profile workplace modernization, office consolidation, renovation, relocation, and strategic infrastructure initiatives across varying phases of execution – approximately

Across roughly:

1. 40 active projects in 2027
2. $45M annual budget
3. 25 projects in 2028
4. $33M annual budget

• Project Planning and Execution : Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, deliverables, and success criteria aligned with business goals. Take an active, hands-on role in execution - directly contributing to problem-solving, solution development, and driving progress, not just overseeing it. Support executive governance forums, steering committees, and decision-making processes through the preparation of executive-ready reporting, recommendations, and briefing materials.
• Analytical Decision-Making: Leverage data, dashboards, and KPIs to inform decision-making, track program performance, and demonstrate measurable impact. Build and maintain reporting frameworks that translate operational data into clear, executive-ready insights. Identify trends, anomalies, and risks before they surface in outcomes. Partner closely with Strategy, Planning & Execution as a consumer of their analytic & reporting services.
• Prioritization Under Pressure : Rapidly re-prioritize workloads as business needs shift. Make transparent trade-off decisions, communicate changes proactively to stakeholders, and ensure the team stays focused on the highest-impact work at all times.
• Initiation and Ownership : Proactively identify gaps, risks, and opportunities. Take personal accountability for following through on action items and driving resolution - even in the face of ambiguity. Champion a culture of high-quality outcomes across yourself and the team.
• Risk & Issue Management : Identify, assess, and anticipate risks as projects evolve in a dynamic environment. Develop robust mitigation and contingency plans. Take ownership of driving resolution, not just escalation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Build strong partnerships across functions. Navigate complex organizational structures, foster open communication, and align diverse stakeholders to deliver cohesive outcomes.
• Quality & Change Management : Ensure all deliverables meet quality standards through hands-on involvement and thorough review. Proactively manage changes to scope, schedule, and resources through structured change control processes. Lead Project Managers to execute against the Delivery Framework; as a consumer of the framework, collaborate with Practise Management on opportunities to refine and improve processes.
• Process Improvement & Lessons Learned : Lead post-project reviews to capture insights and best practices. Continuously seek and implement improvements to how the team operates.

Note: AI-enabled tools may be used to sort applications based on job-related criteria. All AI generated results are vetted by our team and the decision of which candidates move forward is always made by a human.