Senior Manager, Program Management Office

Responsibilities

• Program Integration and Enterprise Planning
• Lead the development and maintenance of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all program segments.

Manage program-wide integrated budgets and long-term financial plans

• Establish and manage cross-functional program dependencies, interfaces, and integration milestones.
• Identify and escalate critical path risks, schedule variances, and program execution concerns.
• Ensure consistent planning methodologies are applied across all participating organizations.
• Coordinate enterprise-level planning activities to support strategic objectives and delivery commitments.
• Facilitate integrated program reviews and milestone readiness assessments.

PMO Governance and Program Controls

• Develop and maintain PMO governance frameworks, procedures, standards, and operating models.
• Establish stage-gate and phase review processes throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive compliance with program management policies, reporting requirements, and governance expectations.
• Lead portfolio-level schedule, budget/cost, risk, and performance monitoring activities.
• Establish and maintain accurate program health and performance metrics.
• Ensure consistency of reporting, forecasting, and program status assessments across all segments.

Executive Reporting and Decision Support

• Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and integrated program performance metrics.
• Provide objective analysis of program execution, emerging risks, opportunities, and trends.
• Support executive leadership reviews, and governance forums.
• Prepare briefing materials, recovery plans, business cases, and strategic recommendations.
• Present portfolio status, major issues, and critical decisions to senior leadership.
• Portfolio Performance Management
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for program execution.

Consolidate schedule, budget/cost, risk, and resource information

• Analyze performance trends and identify corrective actions when required.
• Ensure consistent measurement and reporting of program objectives and outcomes.
• Lead program health assessments and maturity reviews.

Risk, Dependency, and Change Integration

• Oversee segment-level risk and dependency management processes.
• Ensure critical cross-segment risks are identified, monitored, and escalated appropriately.
• Support the program change management activities and impact assessments.
• Facilitate issue resolution among stakeholders with competing priorities and objectives.
• Support integrated decision-making across multiple organizations.

Program Management Excellence

• Establish and evolve the PMO as an enterprise center of excellence for program and project management, continuously developing frameworks, standards, methodologies, and capabilities aligned with organizational growth and program complexity.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve PMO processes, templates, methodologies, governance artifacts, and toolsets, recognizing that many components of the future-state PMO operating model are still under development.
• Lead the development and adoption of standardized planning, reporting, governance, and portfolio management practices across diverse stakeholder organizations with varying levels of project management maturity.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and functional leadership to Program Managers across the enterprise.
• Promote best practices in planning, scheduling, governance, risk management, and reporting.
• Lead PMO process improvement and capability development initiatives.
• Build a high-performing PMO capability by establishing team structure, role definitions, responsibilities, competencies, and development plans aligned to future organizational needs.
• Lead and develop PMO personnel, including program analysts, schedulers, program controllers, governance specialists, and reporting analysts.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and execution excellence.
• Support workforce planning and capability development within the PMO organization.
• Ensure PMO resources effectively support enterprise priorities and delivery objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

Education and Experience required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Telecommunications, Aerospace Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related discipline
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification
• PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) certification
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification

SAFe or equivalent Agile certification

• 12+ years of progressive experience in project, program, portfolio, or PMO leadership roles.
• 5+ years leading PMO, program controls, governance, program integration, or portfolio management functions.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, transforming, or significantly maturing PMO organizations, governance frameworks, operating models, methodologies, and enterprise planning capabilities.
• Experience supporting large-scale, complex engineering, aerospace, telecommunications, defense, or technology programs.
• Experience working with executive leadership and governance boards.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience with integrated master planning, earned value management, portfolio reporting, and enterprise governance frameworks.
• Experience implementing PMO transformations and organizational maturity initiatives
• Knowledge and Skills
• PMO Transformation and Organizational Design
• Process Development and Institutionalization
• Organizational Influence without Authority
• Building Structure in Ambiguous Environments
• Enterprise Program Management
• Integrated Master Scheduling
• Oracle Primavera Cloud
• Executive Reporting and Analytics
• Risk and Opportunity Management
• Governance Framework Development
• Organizational Change Management
• Resource and Capacity Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Systems Thinking
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Financial Acumen
• Negotiation and Influence
• Conflict Resolution
• Continuous Improvement
• Security & Compliance Requirements

Canadian Reliability Status (Minimum) is required

• Eligibility for Controlled Goods Program (CGP) Registration is required
• Ability to handle controlled, sensitive, and export-regulated technical data in compliance with Canadian and international regulations

Decision Making & Supervision

• This role has direct reports and will work and interact with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Working conditions are typical of a downtown Ottawa office environment.

Must be in-office 5x times a week (Monday-Friday)

• The successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain Reliability Status.
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