We are seeking a highly accomplished Program Manager - IT V for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier program management, executive stakeholder engagement, and enterprise data governance leadership capacity, specializing in driving large-scale data transformation initiatives, risk reduction strategies, and organizational change across complex matrixed environments.
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As a Program Manager - IT V, you will bridge the gap between executive leadership, business unit heads, data stewards, and risk compliance partners. Operating within a hybrid work model in Toronto, you will lead the execution of executive delegate engagement frameworks, facilitate high-level data landscape assessments, establish local data governance forums, and operationalize enterprise decision rights. This position demands a strategic leader with deep expertise in enterprise data governance principles, data ownership models, program management, and change leadership who can translate policy into practical, business-aligned accountabilities.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday anchor days)
Contract Duration: 1 year 3 months contract
Advantages
Executive Leadership Exposure: Direct high-visibility engagement with senior leadership teams and business executives.
Enterprise Governance Influence: Shape enterprise-wide data governance operating models, data stewardship, and risk reduction frameworks.
High-Impact Strategic Scope: Lead multi-workstream transformation initiatives connecting governance activities directly to measurable enterprise value.
Predictable Hybrid Schedule: Balanced working arrangement combining collaborative onsite days in Toronto with remote flexibility.
Responsibilities
Lead the day-to-day execution and program management of executive delegate engagement initiatives across business segments and enterprise functions.
Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, executive delegates, and cross-functional teams to drive program adoption and accountability.
Facilitate data landscape exercises, data ownership assessments, and working sessions to identify critical data, dependencies, and governance gaps.
Establish, facilitate, and support local data governance forums, decision rights frameworks, and escalation paths.
Manage activation plans, milestones, critical path dependencies, risk logs, decisions, and program outcomes.
Prepare executive briefings, status dashboards, metric reports, and leadership presentations to communicate progress and drive decision-making.
Drive organizational change management strategies to embed data governance practices into daily business operating rhythms.
Resolve and escalate data risk issues, data quality concerns, stewardship challenges, and ownership gaps.
Continuously refine and improve program activation processes, tools, frameworks, and standardized templates.
Connect program deliverables and governance activities to tangible business outcomes, risk mitigation, and corporate value.
Qualifications
Core Technical & Program Management Requirements
Data Governance & Transformation Tenure: Minimum 5+ years of direct experience leading enterprise data governance, data management, or related transformation programs within complex, regulated organizations (7–10+ years overall experience).
Data Governance Principles: Deep knowledge of core data governance principles, including data ownership, stewardship, critical data identification, data quality, metadata, lineage, and data risk management.
Operating Model Expertise: Proven experience designing, implementing, or operationalizing enterprise data governance operating models, decision rights, and standards.
Program Execution: Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream programs from concept through execution in a matrixed enterprise environment.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Management, Data Management, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
Preferred Assets & Certifications
Advanced Degree: Master's degree in a business or technical discipline is considered an asset.
Industry Certifications: Relevant designations such as PMP, CDMP, DAMA, or CBIP are considered assets.
Change Management: Experience leading organizational change management and cultural transformation initiatives.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Executive Presence & Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills with a proven track record of influencing senior leadership.
Relationship Building: Superior interpersonal skills to build trust, navigate organizational ambiguity, resolve conflict, and align competing priorities.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Program Manager - IT V" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
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.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a highly accomplished Program Manager - IT V for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier program management, executive stakeholder engagement, and enterprise data governance leadership capacity, specializing in driving large-scale data transformation initiatives, risk reduction strategies, and organizational change across complex matrixed environments.
As a Program Manager - IT V, you will bridge the gap between executive leadership, business unit heads, data stewards, and risk compliance partners. Operating within a hybrid work model in Toronto, you will lead the execution of executive delegate engagement frameworks, facilitate high-level data landscape assessments, establish local data governance forums, and operationalize enterprise decision rights. This position demands a strategic leader with deep expertise in enterprise data governance principles, data ownership models, program management, and change leadership who can translate policy into practical, business-aligned accountabilities.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday anchor days)
...
Contract Duration: 1 year 3 months contract
Advantages
Executive Leadership Exposure: Direct high-visibility engagement with senior leadership teams and business executives.
Enterprise Governance Influence: Shape enterprise-wide data governance operating models, data stewardship, and risk reduction frameworks.
High-Impact Strategic Scope: Lead multi-workstream transformation initiatives connecting governance activities directly to measurable enterprise value.
Predictable Hybrid Schedule: Balanced working arrangement combining collaborative onsite days in Toronto with remote flexibility.
Responsibilities
Lead the day-to-day execution and program management of executive delegate engagement initiatives across business segments and enterprise functions.
Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, executive delegates, and cross-functional teams to drive program adoption and accountability.
Facilitate data landscape exercises, data ownership assessments, and working sessions to identify critical data, dependencies, and governance gaps.
Establish, facilitate, and support local data governance forums, decision rights frameworks, and escalation paths.
Manage activation plans, milestones, critical path dependencies, risk logs, decisions, and program outcomes.
Prepare executive briefings, status dashboards, metric reports, and leadership presentations to communicate progress and drive decision-making.
Drive organizational change management strategies to embed data governance practices into daily business operating rhythms.
Resolve and escalate data risk issues, data quality concerns, stewardship challenges, and ownership gaps.
Continuously refine and improve program activation processes, tools, frameworks, and standardized templates.
Connect program deliverables and governance activities to tangible business outcomes, risk mitigation, and corporate value.
Qualifications
Core Technical & Program Management Requirements
Data Governance & Transformation Tenure: Minimum 5+ years of direct experience leading enterprise data governance, data management, or related transformation programs within complex, regulated organizations (7–10+ years overall experience).
Data Governance Principles: Deep knowledge of core data governance principles, including data ownership, stewardship, critical data identification, data quality, metadata, lineage, and data risk management.
Operating Model Expertise: Proven experience designing, implementing, or operationalizing enterprise data governance operating models, decision rights, and standards.
Program Execution: Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream programs from concept through execution in a matrixed enterprise environment.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Management, Data Management, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
Preferred Assets & Certifications
Advanced Degree: Master's degree in a business or technical discipline is considered an asset.
Industry Certifications: Relevant designations such as PMP, CDMP, DAMA, or CBIP are considered assets.
Change Management: Experience leading organizational change management and cultural transformation initiatives.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Executive Presence & Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills with a proven track record of influencing senior leadership.
Relationship Building: Superior interpersonal skills to build trust, navigate organizational ambiguity, resolve conflict, and align competing priorities.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Program Manager - IT V" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
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.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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