Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private clients, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled Program Manager to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 5 months
Pay Rate: Starting form $90 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, Core business hours
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide project oversight on behalf of the Director, Architecture, Digital Governance, Digital Public Health
- Manage relationships with internal and external partners and vendor teams with respect to the Public Health Data Utility and the Immunization Information System initiatives
- Ensure that project deliverables are satisfactorily completed
- Ability to communicate complex technical and contractual information to diverse stakeholders
- Align vendor and partner activities with broader organizational strategies, risk frameworks, and priorities
- Define program scope, objectives, and success metrics
- Develop and maintain program plans, timelines, and budgets
- Coordinate interdependent projects and manage cross-functional teams
- Monitor progress and ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget
- Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and communicate program status regularly
- Ensure alignment of projects with organizational strategy and goals
- Oversee program documentation and reporting for leadership
- Collaborate with program managers (or equivalent roles) from vendors and partner organizations to ensure alignment and overall progress of the program
- Coordinate and develop materials to present to internal partners, integrated project/program teams, steering committees, etc.
- Produce routine and ad-hoc updates on program progress and risks for different audiences as required
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Support execution of PHDU roll-out and IIS delivery processes, identify barriers to progress and ensure activities remain aligned to approved business objectives and analytics outcomes
- Ensure accountability across related PHDU roll-out and IIS workstreams through full lifecycle planning, delivery tracking and closure activities
- Ensure delivery is cost-effective, efficient and compliant with PHO, OPS, Ministry, Cluster and project/program management methodologies, standards and frameworks
- Direct, manage and coordinate multidisciplinary teams and matrixed resources across platform roll-out, data pipeline delivery, analytics enablement, and operational readiness including governance
- Provide an organizational view of internal and external dependencies, exposure levels, decisions and escalations affecting PHDU delivery
- Provide leadership, coaching and knowledge transfer to strengthen internal program delivery capability
- Direct stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building; provide program, and project reporting to multiple stakeholders
- Lead strategies and actions to manage change impacts and support roll-out of PHDU-enabled delivery practices
- Supervise the development and communication of program-related updates, governance materials, briefing notes and executive presentations
- Manage day-to-day program delivery coordination across business, data engineering, analytics, architecture, privacy, security, vendor and operational teams to support PHDU and IIS outcomes
- Responsible for maintaining the PHDU roadmap and working with partners to project and track work associated with the milestones
- Establish stakeholder engagement, communication and governance plans for PHDU roll-out, IIS delivery
- Document, manage and maintain integrated program risks, issues, assumptions, decisions and dependencies for PHDU and IIS
- Work with stakeholders and project teams to conduct regular risk and dependency reviews, identify mitigations and prepare executive-ready status and escalation reports
- Develop and maintain delivery performance measures and KPIs to track PHDU roll-out progress, and IIS readiness and continuous improvement opportunities
- Lead and oversee program strategy from inception through delivery, operational transition, benefits identification, funding alignment and knowledge transfer
- Provide PHO Digital & Data (D&D) leadership with regular program, portfolio and executive status updates
Experience & Qualification Requirements:- Bachelor’s degree in business, Management required
- 10+ years of experience in program or project management
- PMP or PgMP certification is an asset
- Strong understanding of public health programs health data standards
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Proficiency in project/program management tools and methodologies (e.g., Agile, PMI standards)
- Risk management and budgeting expertise
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing vendor-related deliverables across departments
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and change management skills
- Ability to navigate complex governance structures and policy environments
How to Apply: If you are a motivated professional looking to contribute to a leading team, please submit your resume outlining your qualifications and experience relevant to this role. Robertson & the clients we represent, value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
