Permanent Full Time

What you will do

- Accountable for end-to-end delivery of complex digital initiatives, driving innovation and transformation while ensuring alignment with PDLC, governance standards, and organizational objectives.
- Accountable for delivering business outcomes and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Partner with senior and executive stakeholders to influence decisions and manage trade-offs.
- Lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity and drives organizational change.
- Develop comprehensive project plans for large, complex initiatives with multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and governance standards, in partnership with internal and external stakeholders and work with third-party vendors to integrate plans and align deliverables.
- Manage overall project governance including stakeholder communication, meeting facilitation, documentation, resources, financials, scheduling, and status reporting.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and manages complex budgets and forecasts.
- Develop detailed project plans, stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, cut-over plans, and financial summaries and executive steering presentations and dashboards, as required.
- Coordinates internal and external resources and monitors deliverables.
- Monitor and track projects in internal systems; monitors resource usage vs. budget and prepares and updates cost plans regularly.
- Work proactively to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
- Adjust plans and communication to achieve desired outcomes.
- Ensure project documentation is complete and current.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews and documents lessons learned.




- Build and foster productive relationships with stakeholders.
- Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams for required assessments and artefacts and manages all technical project risks, ensuring compliance with established cyber and risk controls.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives and participates in internal community of practice project management events and development opportunities.
- Mentor project managers and team members on processes and tools.

What you will bring

- Minimum 5 years of experience managing large complex projects with multiple workstreams, including digital transformation initiatives, software implementations, integrations, and data migration.
- PMP or equivalent certification required; Agile/SAFe certifications considered an asset.
- Proven ability to lead large, complex projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Proven ability to influence senior leadership and manage executive-level stakeholders, including communications and negotiations.
- Strong track record of stakeholder management and leading cross-functional teams to achieve project deliverables.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, drive organizational change and simplify complex situations to deliver results under tight deadlines.
- Deep understanding of Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC) and governance frameworks.




- Experience with digital platforms, AI, cloud technologies, and data-driven solutions considered an asset.
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts into business terms for executive audiences.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills, with confidence in formal speaking situations.
- Strategic thinking and decision-making.
- Ability to build and foster productive relationships across internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong client-centric focus while balancing technology and business expectations.
- Results-driven, team-oriented, and adaptable to change.
- Ability to accommodate flexible schedules when required.

Nice to have

- Experience mentoring project managers and fostering high-performing teams.
- Experience delivering projects with enterprise-level impact.
- Relevant credentials such as PMI-PBA, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or SAFe Agilist considered an asset.
- Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative) and tools (MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint).
- Bilingualism (English/French) is an asset.

What we offer

- Career Development : Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to$2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
- Health & Wellness: Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being.
- Time Off: In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.
- Financial Security: Compa

📌 Sr Project Manager (Toronto)
🏢 The Canada Life Assurance
📍 Toronto