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

• Lead and manage the BGT portfolio to ensure organizational transformation initiatives are aligned with the organization’s priorities. • Lead end-to-end implementation of organizational transformation programs: planning, execution, risk and issue management, dependency management, budget management, stakeholder engagement, and achievement of key program objectives. • Work closely with transformation sponsors, workstream leads, and cross-functional teams to integrate multiple workstreams and create a coordinated roadmap to meet program objectives and ensure successful adoption. • Manage vendor coordination and governance, including day-to-day relationship management with consulting partners. • Provide regular written and verbal updates to senior leadership, workstream leads, and stakeholders on program progress, key performance indicators, and risks.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of program management experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. • Proven experience coordinating multiple concurrent initiatives or portfolios. • At least five years of direct management experience supervising project managers or in a similar role. • Program management (PgM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or equivalent. • Scrum Master certification (Certified Scrum Master, CSM), SAFe certification, and Agile certifications (e.g., SAFe, PMI-ACP). • Expertise with project management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Planner, Jira, or other leading platforms. • Experience managing portfolio budgets in excess of $10 million. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build and manage relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. • Experience managing external consulting partners (e.g., Big 4). • Proficiency in written and spoken English is required for this role.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity, diversity, and inclusion • Recruitment focus on underrepresented groups • Continuous improvement and innovation