JOB SUMMARY The Director, Strategy & PMO is a critical strategic advisor and proxy to the SVP of Adecco Canada. This role drives enterprise alignment, accelerates execution on national priorities, and ensures clarity, focus, and forward momentum across the Canadian organization.
The Director leads Adecco Canada’s National Project Management Strategy, establishing project governance, building enterprise wide visibility, and embedding disciplined execution during a period of significant transformation. This role develops the structures, systems, and operating rhythms that ensure milestones, risks, and outcomes are consistently understood, managed, and delivered.
Key Responsibilities 1) Strategic Planning & Enterprise Execution
Co lead annual and multi year strategic planning cycles with the SVP.
Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps, workstreams, and milestones.
Ensure alignment with global, regional, and Canadian priorities.
Develop integrated transformation portfolios, ensuring initiatives are sequenced, prioritized, and resourced appropriately.
Prepare high quality strategic briefs, analyses, and recommendations to support executive decision making.
2) National Project Management Strategy & Governance
Design and implement Adecco Canada’s National Project Management Strategy, including standards, templates, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms.
Establish and operate a national PMO style framework with full visibility into timelines, dependencies, risks, and cross functional impacts.
Serve as the central owner of enterprise timelines, ensuring precision in tracking across strategic, operational, and transformation initiatives.
Deliver concise, executive ready program updates to the SVP, CLT, and SCP.




Proactively identify execution risks and drive rapid mitigation in partnership with business leaders.
Maintain momentum and accountability through disciplined follow up, escalation pathways, and risk governance.
3) Analysis, Insights & Change Leadership
Lead cross functional strategic projects and enterprise wide change initiatives end to end.
Conduct business analyses, identify performance gaps, and recommend solutions.
Synthesize insights into explicit, actionable recommendations for the SVP.
Drive alignment, clarity, and structure across project stakeholders.
4) Governance, Reporting & Operating Rhythms
Own the executive operating rhythm, including MBRs, QBRs, KPI reviews, dashboards, and CLT governance.
Ensure reporting is accurate, consistent, and actionable.
Track leadership commitments and ensure timely follow through.
Integrate project portfolio updates into the executive cadence, enabling forward looking, data driven oversight.
5) Communications & Leadership Alignment
Serve as the central hub for information flow, decision tracking, and organizational alignment.
Manage communication channels to and from the SVP, ensuring clarity and prioritization.
Develop strategic presentations and executive storytelling materials in PowerPoint.
Draft leadership communications and ensure consistency across the Canadian organization.




Lead end to end design and execution of the Monthly Town Hall.
Own planning and content development for the Annual Kickoff Meeting, ensuring alignment, cohesive messaging, and a high impact leader experience.
6) Executive & Stakeholder Relationship Management
Coordinate with Global, Regional, and Canadian leadership teams to ensure alignment and visibility across priorities.
Represent the SVP in meetings with executive presence, judgment, and reliability.
Build strong relationships across all levels;

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Identify stakeholder needs, risks, and opportunities proactively.
Qualifications & Experience
7–10+ years in strategy, consulting, transformation, PMO, or corporate planning roles.
PMP or equivalent certification required.
Demonstrated experience working directly with senior executives in high visibility, high trust environments.
Strong program and project management background, including governance design and cross functional coordination.
Proven ability to build and operate PMO style structures in complex, matrixed organizations.
Exceptional written, verbal, and executive level communication skills.
Advanced PowerPoint storytelling capability, including narrative development.
Strong analytic skills with the ability to translate complexity into clarity and action.
Experience in global/matrix environments preferred.
Staffing or HR solutions industry knowledge is an asset, not a requirement.
Success Profile
Critical & Strategic Thinker — Connects dots, sees around corners, anticipates dependencies.
Truth Teller — Provides candid, objective, data driven insights.
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📌 Director, Strategy (Toronto)
🏢 Adecco Canada
📍 Toronto