Program Director, Enterprise Programs

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What You’ll Be Doing

As a Program Director, Enterprise Programs, you will manage CIBC-wide strategic programs that will increase profitability, enhance client experience, and drive operational efficiency and productivity improvement. The enterprise-wide programs have high impact and high complexity over multiple years and span multiple lines of business representing a significant spend to the organization. With an entrepreneurial mindset, you’ll be focused on business outcomes, forging business partnerships, effectively managing risks & business value and leveraging relationships to promote connectivity throughout the Programs. The incumbent will contribute to monthly management and governance activities and uses significant latitude to control portfolio conduct status reviews, provide business guidance to partners across TI&I.
- At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview._

How You’ll Succeed

Program Management & Financial Expertise: Program manage and govern specific CIBC-wide strategic initiatives and projects to enable the enterprise to deliver on their mandate, goals and objectives.
- Leverage deep understanding of Program/Project management principles, approaches and change management in the delivery of projects.
- Work with Sponsors, Business & Technology leads to initiate program/project structure & workstreams by supporting the development of project plans, status reporting, interdependencies, governance, objectives, success criteria, benefits management approach, scope requirements, project financials, defining resource requirements, and other related program tasks.
- Specific focus on accountability for financial management, schedule management and management of change

Stakeholder Management: Previous experience establishing and maintaining stakeholder and sponsor relationships across Business and Technology.
- Contact with and demonstrated ability to influence executives and management within CIBC.
- Collaborate and develop informed decisions & plans with program/project partners to ensure alignment of workstream deliverables.
- Build ongoing partnerships with key stakeholders across the Enterprise including Business, Technology, Legal & Risk teams.
- Able to take initiative on the preparation of clear, concise and compelling executive presentations

Matrix Management: Must have strong impact through influence skills and experience working in a matrix environment in a large program. Should be able to form strong relationships at all levels, and partner with other teams to get deliverables done.
- Develop compelling presentation materials to report Program 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.

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking: Provide thought leadership, seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving trends. Broad analytic, problem solving and critical thinking capabilities.

Who You Are

You know how to manage schedule and budget in a matrixed environment. You can work with workstreams to strengthen and pressure-test their plans and budgets. You can take initiative on the preparation of integrated plans and other key program level deliverables.

You have an ability to orchestrate activities across multiple workstreams simultaneously, identify linkages and priorities and ensure resolution of risks and issues. Influence without authority and work within a complex matrix environment. Manage parallel activities, deadlines and priorities effectively.

You are purpose driven. You bring your real self to work and you do what you do to help make clients ambitions real. You are an authentic leader who is passionate about team building, developing and coaching to bring out the best in people.

You're driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to bring a shared vision to life.

Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

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