Director, Project Delivery

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What You’ll Be Doing

As a Director Project Delivery you will be joining the CIBC Technology Innovation & Infrastructure team supporting Client Account Management (CAM). The Director Project Delivery will be responsible to lead large, transformational work package within CAM’s strategic initiatives. This role will have accountability to ensure successful delivery of assigned project and will be accountable to lead and facilitate benefit modeling for assigned projects.
- At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role._ _You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote._

How You’ll Succeed
- Strong Leadership: Be a bold and authentic leader who is passionate about developing and coaching to bring out the best in people. Direct, motivate, develop and manage performance of a diverse group of people.
- Strategic Development & Execution: Perform tactical and strategic business planning and return on investment analysis. Lead team in initiating, planning, executing, control and close out of projects. Ensure adherence to department and CIBC standards, policies and procedures. Must ensure that all necessary risk assessments and risk assessment processes are carried out at the appropriate time. Oversee the management of statements of work, contracts, project financials and administration.
- Relationship Management: Build ongoing partnerships with key clients and business partners. Collaborate and develop informed decisions and plans with program/project partners as you work toward a common goal and negotiate deliverables and milestones whenever necessary.
- Project Leadership: Proactively identify risks that will take projects off schedule and find solutions to correct the problem. Monitor milestones, and ensure they’re completed according to timelines and budgets. Develop, execute and track a project plan that is personalized for your team’s preferred mix of quality, time, and cost.
- Communication: Develop compelling presentation materials to report project status and support executive discussion and decision making. Calibrate work progress, status and participate in the negotiation and influence business partners to ensure alignment of initiatives and individual deliverables across dependent initiatives.

Who You Are
- You can demonstrate experience leading large, complex and transformational change. You have experience managing demanding clients, multiple priorities, getting results in a matrixed environment where you may not have direct influence on all project resources. Must have previous experience establishing and maintaining stakeholder and sponsor relationships. You should have experience in the financial services industry, and in particular Capital Markets and/or Wealth Management Operations would be a significant differentiator.
- You act like an owner. You thrive when you're empowered to take the lead, go above and beyond, and deliver results. You know how to foster this across a team.
- Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.
- You know that details matter: You notice things that others don't. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making.
- Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.
- You're motivated by collective success: You know that teamwork can transform a good idea into a great one. You know that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential.- We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive compensation, a banking benefit*, wellbeing support and additional offers such as employee and family assistance programs and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.- Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.
- Subject to program terms and conditions

What you need to know- You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit Expected End Date

2026-10-31

Job Location

Toronto-CC East 12th Fl