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Director, Program Management, Enterprise Delivery Office
Toronto, ONPosted 1 weeks ago
Job Description
- Project Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership to cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with ScotiaTech’s strategic goals and business objectives.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with senior leaders and our external consulting partner to define and drive the strategic roadmap of initiatives, identifying key opportunities and potential risks. Responsible for establishing and managing integrated plans in collaboration with the project delivery team. Identify key stakeholders and involve subject matter experts as required.
- Effective Communication: Consistently interact professionally with clients both in business and technology to manage project expectations and deliverables within allocated timelines and budget.
- Risk Management: Implement robust project management methodologies and processes to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, ensuring successful project delivery. Escalate critical issues and drive decision-making and accountability by supporting cross-functional executive and senior management forums to align on opportunities, challenges and required actions.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, technology teams, and external partners, to ensure alignment and transparency throughout project lifecycles.
- Agile Leadership: Work in an agile delivery environment, drive maturity in Agile practices and effectively collaborate with product, engineering, business and other partners.
- Resource Management: Manage project budgets, resource allocation, and vendor relationships to optimize project outcomes while controlling costs.
- Quality Assurance: Monitor and ensure the quality of project deliverables, adhering to industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Continuous Improvement: Champion a culture of continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance project management practices and streamline processes.
- Manage Priorities: Effectively manage changing priorities, project risks and issues along with impact and mitigation plans. Facilitate change requests for major impact on scope, schedule, resourcing, and budget.
- Reporting and Documentation: Prepare and present regular project status reports and documentation to senior management, providing insights and recommendations for decision-making.
- Talent Development: Mentor and develop project management professionals within the team, fostering a culture of growth and excellence. Build a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviours; communicate vison/values/business strategy; and manage succession and development planning for the team.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
- Create an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk requirements