Senior Manager – Strategic Planning, Initiatives

Role Overview

• Provide strategic leadership in all aspects of the operations for the City’s Transfer Station network and logistics operations.
• Lead the Section’s Transfer Stations and Logistics Managers.
• Develop and implement long-term strategies, initiatives and operational programs.
• Manage budgets, ensuring expenditures remain within approved limits.
• Develop strategic materials such as presentations, briefing notes, business cases, and Council reports.
• Lead procurements and negotiation activities in compliance with City policies.
• Represent the Division in engagements with Council, Committees, external agencies, municipalities, utilities, unions, and community groups.
• Drive initiatives to enhance operational efficiency while supporting organizational change management.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education in a professional discipline pertinent to the job function or an equivalent combination of relevant training and/or experience.
• Extensive experience leading, managing, and implementing multi-disciplinary operational programs and contracts of varying scope.
• Extensive experience leading, supervising, motivating, and coaching teams of operations professionals in a unionized environment.
• Extensive experience making critical, strategic decisions that demonstrate innovation, results-oriented leadership.
• Extensive experience in managing complex issues and influencing diverse stakeholders.
• Extensive experience preparing written reports, correspondence, briefing notes, presentations, and strategic documents for senior management and stakeholders.