Strategic Initiatives Program Manager
Role Overview
The Strategic Initiatives Program Manager works in the Transformation Office directly with the Executive Leadership Team.
The role owns initiative plans, follow-through, and reporting from intake and prioritization through delivery and close-out.
Initiatives include M&A activity, product and innovation launches, governance, risk, privacy, and operational transformation.
The position manages several initiatives concurrently and delivers on strategy rather than setting it.
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About the role
The Strategic Initiatives Program Manager works in the Transformation Office directly with the Executive Leadership Team.
The role owns initiative plans, follow-through, and reporting from intake and prioritization through delivery and close-out.
Initiatives include M&A activity, product and innovation launches, governance, risk, privacy, and operational transformation.
The position manages several initiatives concurrently and delivers on strategy rather than setting it.
Work arrangement
- This is a hybrid role based in the Surrey, BC office, with three days per week in the office.
Project delivery and governance
- Lead Transformation Office initiatives, including M&A due diligence coordination, joint venture standups, product and service launches, and other enterprise priorities.
- Translate executive priorities into project plans, workstreams, timelines, deliverables, and near-term actions.
- Manage execution, status updates, RAID tracking, decision logs, action follow-up, and escalations.
- Coordinate business functions, IT, vendors, subject matter experts, and project teams to resolve blockers.
- Prepare executive project updates, briefing materials, and governance reporting; facilitate sponsor check-ins, working sessions, and decision discussions.
- Partner with Change and Communications teams on business readiness and stakeholder impacts.
- In the first 30 days, inventory assigned initiatives and establish working relationships with executive leaders and sponsors.
- In the first 60 days, implement governance routines, validate project plans, and assess practices against the emerging enterprise project management framework.
- In the first 90 days, assess cross-project dependencies, sequencing risks, stakeholder impacts, and potential change saturation.
Role approach
The role requires creating clarity, accountability, timely follow-through, and alignment across executive-sponsored priorities, often without direct authority.
Requirements
- Able to turn executive and enterprise priorities into practical plans and delivered outcomes.
- Confidently work with executives and hold stakeholders accountable for commitments.
- Organized, with the ability to manage several initiatives at the same time.
- Build effective relationships with executive leaders, initiative sponsors, and stakeholders.
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