Program Manager

🕒 July 5

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Mitacs

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1999

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $1.4M Grant on 2023-04

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Mitacs is a research services organization committed to bringing innovation to more people in more places across Canada and globally. By facilitating access to top researchers and co-investment in talent, Mitacs makes it easier for businesses, researchers, and governments to collaborate on projects that lead to advancements in safer cities, healthcare, improved products, a cleaner environment, and a more diverse economy. They support startups and SMEs through internships, grants, and work-integrated learning, focusing on various areas such as quantum technology, AI, and cleantech.

📋 Description

• Provide leadership and governance across the TMO portfolio, ensuring enterprise transformation initiatives are aligned with organizational priorities. • Lead the end-to-end delivery of Enterprise Transformation programs, including planning, execution, risks and issues management, dependency management, budget management, stakeholder engagement, and delivery of key program outcomes. • Work closely with sponsors, workstream leads, and cross-functional teams to integrate multiple workstreams. • Manage vendor coordination and governance, including day-to-day management of consulting partner relationships. • Prepare materials for the Executive Steering Committee (ESC) on program delivery. • Track and report on KPIs to ensure that program goals are met.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in program management within complex, multi-stakeholder environments. • Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple concurrent initiatives or portfolios. • Minimum 5 years of experience directly managing Project Managers or similar roles. • Program Management (PgM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent. • Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP). • Expertise in project management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Planner, Jira, or other industry-leading platforms. • Experience managing portfolio budgets in excess of $10M. • Experience in managing strategic risks, program and project governance. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and manage relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. • Active user of AI tools for productivity (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar).

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion • Wellness Programs