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Our client is seeking a highly experienced Program Manager to lead large-scale, high-impact IT initiatives across complex stakeholder environments. This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite in Toronto/ Oshawa and 2 days remote for a contract period of 8 months, offering a balance between in-person leadership and flexible delivery. You’ll be accountable for the full program lifecycle, cross-functional alignment, vendor oversight, executive communication, and ensuring project success from inception through transition to operations.
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Advantages
🚀 Drive critical digital transformation programs with real user impact
📊 Present directly to senior leadership and influence decision-making
🤝 Collaborate with technical, vendor, and business stakeholders
🏢 Hybrid setup – 3 days in a downtown Toronto office, 2 days remote
📈 Work on high-visibility projects involving modernization, cybersecurity, and enterprise integration
Responsibilities
•Provide leadership across all phases of large, complex, multi-vendor IT programs
•Define, manage, and communicate program scope, goals, risks, and deliverables
•Present executive-level updates, risk mitigation strategies, and decision briefings
•Align program execution with stakeholder expectations, funding, and operational readiness
•Coordinate and lead teams including project managers, business analysts, and technical experts
•Manage multiple concurrent initiatives such as system upgrades, migrations, and legacy modernization
•Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on TRA, PIA, PEN, VA, and BIA assessments
•Lead procurement processes: draft SoWs, manage contracts, negotiate deliverables and changes
•Direct the creation of dashboards, technical documentation, and strategic recommendations
•Facilitate vendor evaluations, compliance reviews, and SLA-based performance management
Qualifications
✅ Must Have
•10+ years of program/project management experience in large-scale IT environments
•Proven leadership in technical implementations involving legacy systems, upgrades, and cloud
•Experience managing vendor relationships, SOWs, KPIs, and contract negotiations
•Strong background in stakeholder engagement at senior and executive levels
•Demonstrated ability to prepare briefings, executive reports, and presentation decks
•Knowledge of infrastructure and platforms such as Windows Server, DB2, Infosphere, SPSS, Cognos
•Familiarity with cybersecurity protocols: TRA, PIA, PEN, VA, RMR
•Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, and public sector project methodologies
🌟 Nice to Have
•Experience working within a public sector environment
•Understanding of OPS procurement, gating, and digital delivery frameworks
•Background in multi-stakeholder governance and steering committee facilitation
Summary
This is a strategic leadership role for a proven Program Manager who can lead large-scale digital modernization and IT delivery initiatives from the front. You'll manage technical teams, stakeholders, and vendors while ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-quality digital services.
If you are interested in this role, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Our client is seeking a highly experienced Program Manager to lead large-scale, high-impact IT initiatives across complex stakeholder environments. This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite in Toronto/ Oshawa and 2 days remote for a contract period of 8 months, offering a balance between in-person leadership and flexible delivery. You’ll be accountable for the full program lifecycle, cross-functional alignment, vendor oversight, executive communication, and ensuring project success from inception through transition to operations.
Advantages
🚀 Drive critical digital transformation programs with real user impact
📊 Present directly to senior leadership and influence decision-making
🤝 Collaborate with technical, vendor, and business stakeholders
🏢 Hybrid setup – 3 days in a downtown Toronto office, 2 days remote
📈 Work on high-visibility projects involving modernization, cybersecurity, and enterprise integration
Responsibilities
•Provide leadership across all phases of large, complex, multi-vendor IT programs
•Define, manage, and communicate program scope, goals, risks, and deliverables
•Present executive-level updates, risk mitigation strategies, and decision briefings
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•Align program execution with stakeholder expectations, funding, and operational readiness
•Coordinate and lead teams including project managers, business analysts, and technical experts
•Manage multiple concurrent initiatives such as system upgrades, migrations, and legacy modernization
•Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on TRA, PIA, PEN, VA, and BIA assessments
•Lead procurement processes: draft SoWs, manage contracts, negotiate deliverables and changes
•Direct the creation of dashboards, technical documentation, and strategic recommendations
•Facilitate vendor evaluations, compliance reviews, and SLA-based performance management
Qualifications
✅ Must Have
•10+ years of program/project management experience in large-scale IT environments
•Proven leadership in technical implementations involving legacy systems, upgrades, and cloud
•Experience managing vendor relationships, SOWs, KPIs, and contract negotiations
•Strong background in stakeholder engagement at senior and executive levels
•Demonstrated ability to prepare briefings, executive reports, and presentation decks
•Knowledge of infrastructure and platforms such as Windows Server, DB2, Infosphere, SPSS, Cognos
•Familiarity with cybersecurity protocols: TRA, PIA, PEN, VA, RMR
•Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, and public sector project methodologies
🌟 Nice to Have
•Experience working within a public sector environment
•Understanding of OPS procurement, gating, and digital delivery frameworks
•Background in multi-stakeholder governance and steering committee facilitation
Summary
This is a strategic leadership role for a proven Program Manager who can lead large-scale digital modernization and IT delivery initiatives from the front. You'll manage technical teams, stakeholders, and vendors while ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-quality digital services.
If you are interested in this role, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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