We are seeking a highly accomplished, delivery-focused Senior Program Manager (IT) to drive large-scale, complex, multi-year technology programs. In this role, you will provide strategic oversight, robust governance, and end-to-end delivery execution across multiple concurrent projects, business units, and vendor networks. You will be responsible for defining program visions, optimizing multi-million dollar budgets, and mitigating systemic delivery risks to ensure that solutions align seamlessly with enterprise architecture standards and deliver concrete business value.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 days remote; subject to change to full-time onsite)
Duration: 6-month contract
Advantages
High-Impact Enterprise Influence: Command total technical and operational governance over an influential, multi-year technological modernization portfolio.
Complex Stakeholder Scope: Broaden your professional profile by managing high-stakes interdependencies across executive groups, engineering teams, and prominent third-party vendors.
End-to-End Delivery Autonomy: Own the complete strategic playbook—from initial roadmapping, resource optimization, and financial controls up to live system deployment and change adoption.
Predictable Hybrid Framework: Benefit from a structured, collaborative weekly routine split between downtown team collaboration and remote work flexibility.
Responsibilities
Strategic Program Roadmapping: Define the overarching vision, scope, objectives, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for multi-year technology initiatives, balancing resource capacities, technology transformations, and financial caps.
Governance Framework Engineering: Establish and enforce comprehensive program governance structures, including executive decision-making forums, operational steering hierarchies, and transparent status reporting matrices.
End-to-End Delivery Leadership: Oversee the structural planning, daily execution, proactive milestone monitoring, and formal closure of all sub-projects and program work packages.
Financial & Procurement Management: Author and manage multi-year program budgets, forecasts, and capital investment proposals. Drive downstream procurement tracks, contract negotiations, and vendor statement of work (SOW) compliance.
Risk & Change Governance: Identify, log, and neutralize enterprise-level delivery risks, dependencies, and complex bottlenecks. Lead scope change-control workflows and clear technical escalation pathways.
Executive Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary delivery liaison to senior executives, business champions, and technical leadership groups to negotiate acceptable solutions across competing priorities.
Team Development & Culture: Provide coaching, mentorship, and clear technical direction to Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Engineering leads, fostering a culture of psychological safety, accountability, and delivery excellence.
Qualifications
Core Seniority: 8+ years of dedicated professional experience managing massive IT project/program portfolios, with a proven track record of:
Developing and executing complex, multi-year program roadmaps.
Directing the end-to-end lifecycle planning and closure of cross-functional program components.
Building robust corporate governance models, reporting frameworks, and performance structures.
Methodological Flexibility: Deep operational knowledge across Agile (Scrum/SAFe), traditional Waterfall, and hybrid software delivery models.
Technical Infrastructure Literacy: Sound conceptual understanding of enterprise-level computing setups, systems integration protocols, cloud technologies, and modern cybersecurity baselines.
Relationship & Negotiation Savvy: Elite interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to steer multi-stakeholder workshops and align vendor partners.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).
Desirable Certifications: Professional designations such as PgMP, PMP, PMI-ACP, PROSCI Change Management, ITIL, or SAFe certifications are highly advantageous.
Sector Context: Prior experience steering large-scale initiatives within the public sector or a municipal environment is a definite asset.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Program Manager 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, delivery-focused Senior Program Manager (IT) to drive large-scale, complex, multi-year technology programs. In this role, you will provide strategic oversight, robust governance, and end-to-end delivery execution across multiple concurrent projects, business units, and vendor networks. You will be responsible for defining program visions, optimizing multi-million dollar budgets, and mitigating systemic delivery risks to ensure that solutions align seamlessly with enterprise architecture standards and deliver concrete business value.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 days remote; subject to change to full-time onsite)
Duration: 6-month contract
Advantages
High-Impact Enterprise Influence: Command total technical and operational governance over an influential, multi-year technological modernization portfolio.
Complex Stakeholder Scope: Broaden your professional profile by managing high-stakes interdependencies across executive groups, engineering teams, and prominent third-party vendors.
End-to-End Delivery Autonomy: Own the complete strategic playbook—from initial roadmapping, resource optimization, and financial controls up to live system deployment and change adoption.
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Predictable Hybrid Framework: Benefit from a structured, collaborative weekly routine split between downtown team collaboration and remote work flexibility.
Responsibilities
Strategic Program Roadmapping: Define the overarching vision, scope, objectives, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for multi-year technology initiatives, balancing resource capacities, technology transformations, and financial caps.
Governance Framework Engineering: Establish and enforce comprehensive program governance structures, including executive decision-making forums, operational steering hierarchies, and transparent status reporting matrices.
End-to-End Delivery Leadership: Oversee the structural planning, daily execution, proactive milestone monitoring, and formal closure of all sub-projects and program work packages.
Financial & Procurement Management: Author and manage multi-year program budgets, forecasts, and capital investment proposals. Drive downstream procurement tracks, contract negotiations, and vendor statement of work (SOW) compliance.
Risk & Change Governance: Identify, log, and neutralize enterprise-level delivery risks, dependencies, and complex bottlenecks. Lead scope change-control workflows and clear technical escalation pathways.
Executive Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary delivery liaison to senior executives, business champions, and technical leadership groups to negotiate acceptable solutions across competing priorities.
Team Development & Culture: Provide coaching, mentorship, and clear technical direction to Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Engineering leads, fostering a culture of psychological safety, accountability, and delivery excellence.
Qualifications
Core Seniority: 8+ years of dedicated professional experience managing massive IT project/program portfolios, with a proven track record of:
Developing and executing complex, multi-year program roadmaps.
Directing the end-to-end lifecycle planning and closure of cross-functional program components.
Building robust corporate governance models, reporting frameworks, and performance structures.
Methodological Flexibility: Deep operational knowledge across Agile (Scrum/SAFe), traditional Waterfall, and hybrid software delivery models.
Technical Infrastructure Literacy: Sound conceptual understanding of enterprise-level computing setups, systems integration protocols, cloud technologies, and modern cybersecurity baselines.
Relationship & Negotiation Savvy: Elite interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to steer multi-stakeholder workshops and align vendor partners.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).
Desirable Certifications: Professional designations such as PgMP, PMP, PMI-ACP, PROSCI Change Management, ITIL, or SAFe certifications are highly advantageous.
Sector Context: Prior experience steering large-scale initiatives within the public sector or a municipal environment is a definite asset.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Program Manager 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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