Senior Technical Program Manager

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Senior Technical Program Manager Brampton, ON

Loblaw Technology & Analytics is actively seeking a highly skilled Senior Technical Program Manager to spearhead the delivery of critical technical solutions for Healthcare. This pivotal role involves supporting Healthcare Data Products through effective project management, governance, budget management, and Agile optimization. Reporting to the Director of Customer Data & Analytics Program Office, you will be instrumental in driving accountability, providing clear direction, and ensuring the successful delivery of each project. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you are essential to ensuring that Healthcare Data initiatives are delivered on schedule but also with fostering collaboration and empowerment among our cross-functional teams.

What You’ll Do:

• Independently lead the end-to-end planning and delivery management of technical solutions for data initiatives, demonstrating initiative and self-direction in identifying and implementing process improvements.
• Enable and cultivate strong relationships through effective partner communication and management of cross-team dependencies. This includes scoping, planning, prioritization, escalation, capacity planning, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.
• Partner with product, technology, business, and cross-functional teams to support business objectives. Manage plans, oversee delivery, proactively resolve project risks/issues, and enhance roadmap efficiencies across functions.
• Drive technical delivery by uniting teams to plan strategically for both interim solutions and long-term investments. Develop and implement templates for project artifacts such as Project Plans, Stakeholder Registers, RAID logs, Weekly Updates, SteerCo updates, and Project Budgets to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Manage program-level financials including Capital Expenses (CapEx), Operating Expenses (OpEx).
  
  

What you Bring:

• Demonstrates strong leadership and initiative, effectively guiding cross-functional project teams to success, leveraging extensive experience in autonomous project management. Experience articulating technical constructs and concepts to non-technical partners.
• 5 years of experience leading and launching large-scale Healthcare projects. Ensures precision and thoroughness in all project documentation, utilizing a meticulous approach honed through years of developing processes and templates for improved project delivery.
• Proficient in optimizing Agile practices with expertise in creating custom dashboards for diverse stakeholder needs and measuring key project metrics.
• Possesses a deep understanding of budgeting, financial reporting, business case processes, and implementing robust tracking mechanisms. Proven ability to introduce KPIs that effectively link project benefits to financial outcomes.
• Adept at steering teams through uncertain scenarios with self-initiative, skillfully guiding them toward actionable solutions by leveraging a proven track record of overcoming challenges and delivering impactful results.
  
  

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:

Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

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