Strategic Initiatives Program Manager

About the role

Workplace

• Hybrid role based in the Surrey, BC office, with three days per week in the office.

Transformation delivery

• Lead assigned initiatives from initiation through close-out, including M&A due diligence coordination, joint venture standups, launches, and enterprise priorities.
• Turn priorities into plans, workstreams, timelines, deliverables, and near-term actions; manage execution, RAID, decisions, follow-up, and escalation.
• Coordinate business functions, IT, vendors, subject matter experts, and project teams to resolve blockers and maintain momentum.

Executive support and governance

• Work with executive leaders and sponsors to clarify priorities, decisions, risks, dependencies, and follow-up.
• Prepare executive updates, briefings, and governance reporting; facilitate sponsor check-ins, working sessions, meetings, and decision discussions.
• Influence without direct authority through clarity, accountability, follow-through, and alignment.

Change and project practices

• Partner with Change and Communications on readiness, stakeholder impacts, communications, training, and adoption.
• Identify readiness gaps, change risks, adoption barriers, and organizational capacity constraints; help sequence work to reduce change saturation.
• Follow the enterprise project management framework while applying it pragmatically to business-led work and providing feedback on its effectiveness.

Documentation and first 90 days

• Maintain accessible project documentation; support reusable templates and dashboards; capture lessons learned.
• First 30 days: inventory initiatives and build working relationships with executives and sponsors.
• First 60 days: establish governance routines, validate project plans and resources, and assess practices against the emerging enterprise framework.
• First 90 days: identify cross-project dependencies and change saturation, and demonstrate early value through clear structure and follow-up.

What the role requires

• University degree or college diploma in Business Administration, Project Management, Operations, Change Management, or comparable field.
• At least 5 years of direct project management experience; cross-functional business, operational, transformation, or enterprise work is preferred.
• Experience with multiple stakeholders, functions, vendors, technology dependencies, and executive sponsors; experience with C-suite or senior leaders or preparing their briefings.
• Ability to manage scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong business acumen, communication, facilitation, discretion, judgment, and executive-ready reporting.
• Predictive and agile delivery experience is an asset. Project management certification or equivalent experience is preferred; change certification or practical experience is an asset.
• Office, Teams, SharePoint, project tracking, and collaboration tools are assets. Technical background is not required, but effective partnership with IT is important.
• Organized senior executive assistants with strong operations and project management experience are encouraged to apply.

Compensation

• Estimated annual base salary is CAD 110,000–125,000; individual compensation depends on job-related skills, experience, and education or training.
• The stated range is base salary and excludes the total rewards package.

Benefits

• Paid time off, extended health and dental benefits, RRSP matching, flexible work options, wellness support, and mental health resources.

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