Senior Program Manager

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Program Manager to provide structured program and portfolio management leadership for critical digital, analytics, and data infrastructure initiatives. In this role, you will act on behalf of senior digital governance leadership to establish and maintain integrated delivery plans, governance frameworks, decision pathways, and executive status reporting. You will oversee multi-disciplinary workstreams spanning data engineering, analytics enablement, architecture, privacy, security, and vendor management to ensure deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Location: Remote

Duration: 5-month contract.

Advantages
High-Visibility Executive Role: Provide program oversight on behalf of senior leadership while managing high-profile digital and data initiatives.

Strategic Enterprise Scope: Drive end-to-end delivery across multi-vendor teams, data engineering, analytics, privacy, and security workstreams.

100% Remote Flexibility: Enjoy fully remote work while leading complex, cross-functional delivery teams and governance forums.

Presentable & Concise Leadership Impact: Direct executive reporting, change management, and risk mitigation strategies across high-priority data product roadmaps.

Responsibilities
Executive Oversight & Governance: Provide executive program oversight, establish governance forums, define decision and escalation pathways, and align multi-vendor activities with broader organizational strategies.

Relationship & Vendor Management: Manage strategic relationships across internal business units, cross-functional partners, and external vendor delivery teams to ensure alignment with delivery milestones.

Integrated Delivery Coordination: Lead day-to-day program delivery coordination across data engineering, analytics, architecture, privacy, security, and operations teams to drive platform rollout and data product readiness.

Strategic Roadmap & Milestone Tracking: Maintain comprehensive strategic roadmaps, project timelines, and performance KPIs to track delivery progress, benefits realization, and continuous improvement opportunities.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Document, monitor, and manage integrated program risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies, preparing executive-ready status reports and mitigation strategies.

Change Management & Communication: Direct stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and change management strategies to support adoption, developing briefing notes, governance materials, and executive presentations.

Budgeting & Financial Accountability: Develop and manage integrated program budgets, monitor cost-effectiveness, track funding alignment, and ensure compliance with governance frameworks and standards.

Qualifications
Program Management Seniority: 10+ years of dedicated experience leading complex program or project management portfolios (Strictly Required).

Executive & Vendor Oversight: Demonstrated experience providing project oversight for senior leadership while managing relationships across internal, external, and vendor delivery teams (Strictly Required).

Roadmap & Delivery Planning: Proven track record maintaining strategic roadmaps, tracking milestone dependencies, and coordinating cross-functional teams spanning data engineering, analytics, architecture, privacy, and security (Strictly Required).

Risk & Governance Management: Extensive experience documenting and managing integrated program risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies for enterprise-scale digital initiatives (Strictly Required).

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Leadership: Exceptional communication and change management skills, with proven ability to lead governance forums and present status reports to executive leadership (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior program management experience within a public sector or enterprise healthcare data environment.

Professional program management certification (PMP or PgMP).

Strong familiarity with data infrastructure, analytics products, and health data standards.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Program Manager" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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