Senior Program Manager - Clinical Data Platform

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Pay Rate: C$100.00–C$105.00 / Hour (CAD)

The client is seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager / PM Consultant to support a large-scale clinical data platform initiative within the life sciences industry. The successful candidate will lead day-to-day execution across business, data, technology, and vendor teams, with responsibility for program planning, governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and overall delivery. This role requires someone who can operate comfortably between senior business stakeholders and technical delivery teams while maintaining strong ownership of timelines, dependencies, issues, and program outcomes.

• Lead day-to-day execution of a complex clinical data platform program.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Coordinate delivery across business, data, technology, consulting, and external vendor teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, governance forums, and executive status reviews.
• Maintain and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decision logs.
• Proactively identify delivery risks and drive appropriate mitigation, escalation, and resolution.
• Track program progress against committed timelines and deliverables.
• Ensure clear ownership and accountability across cross-functional workstreams.
• Prepare concise status reporting and executive-level communications.
• Maintain alignment between business objectives, technical delivery, and overall program priorities.

• 5–10 years of experience in program management, project management, or consulting delivery.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale data, analytics, digital, or technology programs.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, technology partners, and external vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, delivery risks, issues, and escalations.

• Experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, clinical research, or healthcare environments.
• Experience supporting clinical data platforms, clinical technology, data modernization, or analytics transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with clinical data environments and associated business and technology stakeholders.
• Previous experience working in client-facing consulting or professional services environments.

• Strong program planning, governance, risk management, dependency management, and execution capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced consulting environment.

• PMP, Agile, or related project/program management certification.

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-18057 Industry: Information Technology