RQ08535 Sr Program Manager

Job title:

RQ08535 Sr Program Manager

Company

Randstad

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Program Manager (3 days onsite, 2 days remote) to oversee and advance critical value asset assessments, a cyber maturity framework, and a cyber control tower project. This role also leads the Project Review Committee practices across a cyber division, focusing on strategic priorities, budget accountability, and agile project delivery.Advantages

• High-Impact Leadership: Shape strategic initiatives in cybersecurity, guiding program oversight and governance.
• Diverse Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with senior executives, steering committees, and cross-functional teams to align efforts on mission-critical projects.
• Budget & Resource Control: Manage complex multi-channel funding, ensuring fiscal accountability and transparent reporting.
• Agile & Strategic Methodology: Employ agile methods-scrum, sprints, backlog-in combination with proven strategic planning skills.
• Professional Growth: Enhance expertise in cybersecurity project management, advanced risk mitigation, and executive-level communications.

Responsibilities

• Direct strategic planning for key cyber initiatives: critical asset assessments, maturity frameworks, and a control tower project.
• Establish clear project scopes, schedules, and budgets while ensuring alignment with broader security priorities.
• Lead committee practices, enforcing best practices in project tracking, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Maintain consistent metrics for evaluating project performance and strategic alignment.
• Identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks, escalating issues to senior management with actionable solutions.
• Monitor costs, schedules, and deliverables, ensuring transparency and adherence to standards.
• Collaborate with procurement, legal, and vendor teams for timely resource acquisition and compliance.
• Champion ongoing improvements, including agile processes, change management, and user story refinement.
• Provide regular status updates at steering committees and stakeholder forums, articulating scope, timeline changes, and mitigation strategies.
• Enforce best practices in project management, maintaining alignment with recognized methodologies.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large cross-functional security or IT programs, including strategy planning and budget management.
• Expert knowledge of PMI standards, agile methods (scrum, sprints, backlog), and ability to adapt them to project needs.
• History of risk mitigation, complex vendor coordination, and thorough project documentation.
• Familiarity with data analytics or advanced BI tools (e.g., dashboards).
• Strong proficiency in public safety or enterprise-level security environments.

Summary
Join us as a Senior Program Manager to spearhead crucial cyber initiatives, from value asset assessments to control tower governance. By leveraging advanced project management, risk control, and agile methods, you’ll align strategic priorities with tangible, high-impact security outcomes in a dynamic environment.Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada’s workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

Expected salary

Location

North York, ON

Job date

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:16:48 GMT

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