IT Senior Project and Portfolio Manager

What are your contributions to the team?

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex IT projects, programs, and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, organizational priorities, and expected business outcomes.
• Establish and maintain portfolio governance, executive reporting, decision-making frameworks, and escalation processes.
• Drive program planning and execution by managing interdependencies, critical milestones, resource requirements, budgets, and delivery risks across multiple projects.
• Provide portfolio oversight by monitoring financial performance, capacity, funding, risks, dependencies, and expected business outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with PMO standards, methodologies, controls, reporting, and documentation requirements.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to define roadmaps, priorities, investment strategies, and delivery approaches.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritization, and investment decisions through data-driven analysis, forecasting, and performance insights.
• Lead cross-functional teams, vendors, and strategic partners to ensure successful delivery of business and technology objectives.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards, KPIs, financial reports, RAID logs, and governance materials that enable informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to resolve competing priorities, drive alignment, and accelerate critical decisions.
• Represent program and portfolio interests in senior leadership, steering committee, and governance forums, providing recommendations on initiative launch, continuation, reprioritization, or closure.

How to thrive in this role?

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Bring 10+ years of experience leading complex IT projects, programs, or portfolios, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale initiatives successfully.
• Demonstrate strong program and portfolio management capabilities, including coordinating multiple projects, managing dependencies, and driving strategic outcomes.
• Experience managing transformation initiatives, enterprise applications, or technology modernization programs.
• Excel at planning and execution, consistently delivering initiatives on time, within budget, and in alignment with business and quality objectives.
• Apply expertise in financial, resource, risk, vendor, and change management across complex technology environments.
• Build trusted relationships with executives, business partners, vendors, and delivery teams through strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Leverage strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to assess impacts, prioritize competing demands, and make informed recommendations across portfolios.
• Operate effectively in large global organizations, leading cross-functional teams and collaborating across nearshore and offshore delivery models.
• Enhance your impact through relevant certifications (PMP, PgMP, SAFe, MoP)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both English and French, enabling effective collaboration across diverse teams and global stakeholders.
• Experience with enterprise technologies such as SAP, Cloud, BI/Data Warehousing, DevOps, Microsoft Project Online, and portfolio management tools.

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