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Senior Director, IT PMO

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Scarborough, ON M1P 2Z1, CAN

- Hybrid
- Information Technology
- Full-Time
- Requisition #: SENIO002848

Description

“Join us in building Careers and shaping Experiences Beyond the Box”

About Us

At Atlantic Packaging, every box tells a story and yours begins here. As a proudly Canadian-owned company with over 80 years of excellence in the corrugated packaging industry with operations within North America (Ontario, Quebec and United States), we’re committed to sustainability, customer excellence and community impact. Since 1945, we’ve supported local jobs and built a legacy of trust with our clients and team members. At Atlantic, your ideas matter, your growth is supported and your work makes a real impact.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Senior Director, IT PMO will lead an established PMO team, including managers responsible for project intake, assessment and resourcing, and project execution and delivery. The Sr. Director will strengthen portfolio and program management, improve project execution, and provide greater visibility into IT investments, priorities, resource capacity and delivery performance.

The role will establish practical, right-sized governance and strengthen portfolio, investment and resource visibility across the organization,



enabling better prioritization and decision-making while improving the predictability and successful delivery of technology initiatives.

Location: Scarborough, Ontario (Hybrid)

What You’ll Do

- Provide strategic leadership and accountability for IT portfolio, program and project management.
- Strengthen portfolio governance, prioritization and investment management practices.
- Establish clear visibility into active and planned initiatives by business unit, investment, strategic priority, status and risk.
- Lead portfolio planning and prioritization in partnership with IT and business leadership, ensuring investments and resources are aligned with organizational priorities.
- Provide the CIO and executive leadership with portfolio insights, risks and recommendations to support investment, prioritization and sequencing decisions.
- Work directly with business users, process owners, leadership, and IT to understand problems, build practical solutions, test and deploy changes, document work, and progressively take greater ownership of production solutions.

Project Intake, Resourcing & Capacity

- Provide leadership and direction to the PMO management team responsible for project intake, assessment, prioritization and resourcing.
- Establish a practical, right-sized intake and governance approach based on project value, complexity, investment and risk.




- Improve visibility into resource demand, allocation, capacity and utilization across the IT portfolio.
- Ensure portfolio commitments consider available capacity, existing priorities and delivery dependencies.
- Partner with IT leaders to address resource constraints, competing priorities and capability gaps.

Project Execution and Delivery

- Provide senior leadership for project and program execution, working closely with the PMO management team to strengthen delivery performance and outcomes.
- Establish fit-for-purpose delivery standards, governance and performance expectations across the portfolio.
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility into project health, financial performance, risks, dependencies and key milestones.
- Provide executive oversight and direction for strategic, complex or at-risk initiatives.
- Drive greater consistency and predictability in project execution and delivery.
- Ensure robust alignment between project intake, prioritization, resourcing and execution.
- Lead, coach and develop the PMO team, establishing clear accountability for performance and outcomes.
- Build a high-performing PMO culture focused on business value, transparency, collaboration, accountability and execution.
- Establish meaningful portfolio and delivery KPIs and executive-level reporting to support effective decision-making.
- Lead portfolio governance discussions involving priorities, investments, capacity, delivery risks and trade-offs.
- Partner with IT and business leaders to strengthen sponsorship, ownership and accountability for project outcomes.

What You Bring

📌 Senior Director, IT PMO (Toronto)
🏢 Atlantic Packaging Products
📍 Toronto