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Mitacs

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1999

💰 $1.4M Grant on 2023-04

At Mitacs, we are bringing innovation to more people in more places across Canada and around the world. We make investing in new knowledge easier through access to top researchers, flexible project plans, and co-investments in talent. Our teams work closely with businesses, researchers, and governments to create new pathways to safer cities, better healthcare, improved products, a cleaner environment, and a more diverse and inclusive economy.-----À Mitacs, nous amenons l’innovation à plus de personnes dans plus d’endroits au Canada et dans le monde. Nous simplifions les choses pour les personnes souhaitant investir dans de nouvelles connaissances en leur donnant accès à l’élite de la recherche, à des plans de projet flexibles et à des investissements conjoints dans le talent. Les équipes de Mitacs collaborent étroitement avec le monde des entreprises, la communauté de la recherche et des instances gouvernementales pour explorer de nouvelles voies menant à des villes plus sûres, à de meilleurs soins de santé, à des produits plus efficaces, à un environnement plus propre ainsi qu’à une économie plus diverse et plus inclusive.

📋 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. • 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. • Ensure that project and program-level risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities are identified, assessed, and mitigated throughout the program lifecycle. • Provide regular updates in both written reports and verbally to senior leadership, workstream leads, and stakeholders on program progress, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and risks. • Track and report on KPIs to ensure that program goals are met. • Facilitate cross-functional meetings to maintain alignment on project deliverables and ensure stakeholder alignment on critical priorities throughout the program lifecycle. • Lead, coach, and develop a small project management & delivery team. Set clear objectives, performance expectations, and development plans for direct reports.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in program management within complex, multi-stakeholder environments. • 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. • Proven ability to lead and coordinate small, cross-functional teams and collaborate across multiple business units and workstreams to achieve transformation goals. • 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) with a mindset of continuous improvement and innovation.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity, diversity, and inclusion commitments • Opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation