Title:  Program Delivery Lead

Requisition ID: 210373

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Program Delivery Lead oversees Commerce programs at a strategic level, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and managing the overall program portfolio. This role requires excellent ability to work closely with the program team, business line leaders, senior management, and diverse stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and effective governance. This position reports directly to the Senior Manager, Commerce & Operations.

In this role you will: 
 

• Program Governance: Oversee the governance of program initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Facilitate strategic discussions, kick-offs, and regular team meetings at a high level
• Budget Oversight: Track and manage program budgets, providing forecasts and actual budget reports to the program manager and/or project sponsors. Ensure financial accountability and transparency.
• Executive Reporting: Prepare and deliver comprehensive progress reports to senior management and stakeholders, highlighting key milestones, risks, and action items.
• PMO Management: Manage and own the Project Management Office (PMO), ensuring efficient and effective processes. Oversee the development and implementation of PMO standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Strategic Project Planning: Oversee the intake flow of new digital projects, ensuring efficient and high-quality planning. This includes prioritization, timeline management, estimation, funding, and resourcing.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners, ensuring stakeholder engagement to drive value into program delivery while leveraging broader bank relationships, systems, processes, and knowledge.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance PMO efficiency and effectiveness within Scotia Digital and Scotiabank

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? 
 

• Proven success in program management in a complex, matrix environment with multiple stakeholders
• Exceptional executive presentation and written communication skills
• Deep understanding of PMIS (Project management information systems) such as Workfront & JIRA
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment
• Results-focused, but understand that achieving results requires collaboration from business partners
• Self-motivated; works both independently and collaboratively with multi-functional teams, as both a leader and team member
• Superior critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Takes pride in being highly organized and staying ‘on top of it’
• Project Management certification (CAPM, PMP, CSM) and/or financial industry experience is an asset

What's in it for you? 
 

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans. 
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.   
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.   
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one. 
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more! 

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.