Senior Manager, Portfolio Governance & Delivery

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (AQN), parent company of Liberty, is a diversified international generation, transmission, and distribution utility. AQN is committed to providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective energy and water solutions through our portfolio of utility investments to over one million customer connections, largely in the United States and Canada.

At Algonquin, our vision is to be the most trusted utility service provider in North America – a premium regulated utility, known for our customer focus, commitment to sustainability, and strong community partnerships. Our employees are at the heart of that vision. We believe that when people are empowered to learn, grow, and contribute their ideas, we can achieve remarkable results together.

We are building a culture that values integrity, inclusivity, and innovation. By joining Algonquin, you’ll be part of a team that is shaping the future of energy and water, while creating long-term value for our customers, communities, employees, and shareholders.

Purpose

The Portfolio Governance & Delivery Partner is responsible for managing the IT portfolio of projects across the organization, ensuring initiatives are prioritized, resourced, and delivered to maximize business impact. This role oversees project governance, budgeting, and resource planning, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and alignment with enterprise priorities. By providing visibility, structure, and assurance across IT initiatives, the Portfolio Governance & Delivery Partner enables effective decision-making, tracks benefits realization, and ensures IT delivers measurable value to the business.

Accountabilities

• Lead the intake and prioritization of IT capital projects demands, ensuring alignment with business objectives and company goals. Maintain a formal backlog of program demand pending decision to proceed.           
• Oversee project resource planning, ensuring sufficient capacity for both internal staff and outsourced surge support.
• Manage program delivery lifecycle frameworks e.g. intake, stage gates and processes to track progress and monitor objectives.
• Business case management to ensure projects have a defined business case with measurable benefits for a ROI
• Monitor delivery health, resolving resourcing gaps or conflicts in collaboration with leadership.
• Align project staffing with strategic priorities and enterprise standards.
• Establish and enforce portfolio management processes, standards, and reporting discipline.
• Ensure IT programs comply with regulatory reporting and respond to audit or data requests.
• Provide executive stakeholders with transparent reporting on delivery status, risks, and dependencies..
• Oversee budget planning, cost control, and financial forecasting for IT programs and projects, ensuring fiscal responsibility and alignment with financial objectives
• Manage contingency fund within IT portfolio
• Deliver technology 3 year capital plan in partnership with business partner teams
• Establish project performance reporting standards, identify core metrics to elevate a focus on business outcomes aligned to capital management practices.
• Track measure and report key project performance indicators and other project health metrics such as time tracking, monthly dashboards and status reports.
• Ensure vendor is delivering Project management services to meet with SLA’s
• Capture lessons learned across IT programs and embed them into delivery standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in IT portfolio management practices.
• Coach and hold accountable project Managers to deliver capital technology projects, to achieve business outcomes, on time and in budget.
• Contribute to project manager learning, development and knowledge sharing initiatives.
• Utilize project management tools to manage projects effectively

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience, 2+ in management capacity
• Program and Project Management credentials preferred

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.

As the successful candidate

Our Mission

We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization - it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.

Our Vision

We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make an impact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.

Our Guiding Principles

• Customer Centric
• Integrity
• Entrepreneurial
• Teamwork
• Owner mindset
• Outcome focused
• Continuous learning

What we offer

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

401k Plan with matching

Share purchase/match plan

Leadership Development Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

Free parking

Variety of Health & Wellness programs

Discount and Perks program

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.