Vice President, Strategic Initiatives – PMO

Role Overview

• Act a key member of Leadership team in the Toronto office providing leadership, mentoring, guidance and alignment across teams.
• Supporting thought leadership and aligning strategic direction across departments
• Driving roadmap development, evolution from a central and disciplined point of view
• Guiding and anchoring initiatives on core business priorities
• Be a transformation agent and enable evolution; help Leadership visualize opportunities that relate to their day-to-day business
• Be a key driver of cultural change in the organization, as an advocate and driver of continuous improvement and integrating technology, automation and AI into the business. Be a key driver in addressing Metergy’s technology debt. Addressing our technology debt is pivotal in allowing us to achieve our growth potential, by allowing us to drive business efficiencies, reduce complexity and ‘key person risk’, and allowing future acquisitions by enabling integration.
• Provide oversight and execution leadership to the Project Management Office (PMO) including:
• Tracking key performance indicators (KPI) to ensure the team has the proper prioritization and resource allocation for business needs
• Overseeing and guiding Team Members responsible for the organization’s projects.
• Supervise project managers, analysts, specialists and external resources to ensure all projects within the scope of the PMO are delivered within defined scope, quality, time, and cost requirements.
• Ensure Investment Committee process governance of Strategic Initiatives and Roadmap projects continues to evolve to best serve the organization’s strategic objectives
• Lead PMO team in effectively planning, coordinating, monitoring and implementing technical and/or non-technical business programs to meet organizational goals. The programs of the PMO include:
• Coordinating initiatives related to office moves
• Defining and developing project / program management best practices, processes and policy to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and goals that are fit for purpose
• Supporting leadership team in addressing our “documentation debt” by leading the initiative to develop standardized Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) across the organization.
• Maintaining the efficiency of important aspects of the project management process such as planning, scheduling and budget and risk assessment.
• Developing risk management project approach and risk management adherence to minimize project risks
• Tracking project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Setting and continually manage project expectations with team members, PMO and other stakeholders.
• Developing and delivering progress reports, presentations, and business cases, to various stakeholders (C-Suite and BOD level)

Requirements

• University degree, likely a relevant business, finance ,or engineering degree
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills, with knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines
• Demonstrated skill in managing project budgets and timelines
• Excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management and time management skills
• Ability to set clear expectations, manage team performance and build high morale among team members
• Excellent written, communication and interpersonal skills
• Team player with positive attitude and focus on results and business growth
• Strong leadership skills to elevate and develop team members

Benefits

• Fully company covered heath and dental benefits from day 1
• Company funded Health Spending Account
• Plan for retirement with Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) and RRSP Matching
• Grow with us! We provide support for continuous learning.
• Paid personal and sick days on top of your vacation
• Summer hours to enjoy the weather
• Company sponsored social events & more!