Location: Toronto, ON
Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid
- Position Type: Contract
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Contract Duration: 13 months (with potential for extension)
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Pay Rate: C$90.00 C$100.00 / Hour (CAD)
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Shift / Schedule: 37.5 hours/week, 9:00 AM 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday
The Senior Program Manager will lead the planning, management, and execution of a strategic website migration program within a leading Canadian private wealth management organization. This individual will be responsible for driving the migration of approximately 1,000 advisor websites to a new CMS platform, coordinating multiple stakeholders, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring successful delivery within aggressive timelines.
The successful candidate will create and maintain detailed project plans, manage risks and dependencies, facilitate communications across business and technology teams, and ensure alignment between the client and vendor delivery schedules. They will act as the central point of coordination across various stakeholder groups including marketing, advisor enablement, training, change management, technology, and external vendors.
This role requires a highly experienced Program Manager who can operate both strategically and tactically while demonstrating strong stakeholder management, relationship-building, and digital project delivery expertise. Experience within financial services, wealth management, website migrations, or CMS implementations is highly preferred.
- Lead a large-scale migration project involving approximately 1,000 advisor websites from an existing CMS platform to a new Client Advisor Website CMS platform
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Drive project planning, timeline development, vendor management, stakeholder engagement, onboarding coordination, change management alignment, risk management, communications, and quality assurance
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Create and maintain detailed project plans and manage risks and dependencies
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Facilitate communications across business and technology teams
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Ensure alignment between the client and vendor delivery schedules
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Act as the central point of coordination across various stakeholder groups including marketing, advisor enablement, training, change management, technology, and external vendors
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Work closely with Executive Director and Digital team members, external vendor project teams, marketing stakeholders, change management teams, training and advisor enablement teams, technology and infrastructure partners, and compliance and governance partners as required
- 10 years of Program/Project Management experience
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Experience leading large-scale digital transformation, website migration, or CMS migration projects
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Advanced proficiency with MS Project and creation of highly detailed project plans
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Strong vendor management experience
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Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
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Experience coordinating multiple cross-functional teams and dependencies
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Ability to manage complex programs with aggressive timelines
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Experience within financial services, wealth management, banking, or related regulated industries
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Strong communication, governance, risk, and status reporting capabilities
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Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills
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Strong collaboration and teamwork
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Ability to navigate complex organizations and multiple stakeholders
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Proactive problem-solving mindset
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High accountability and ownership
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Strong verbal and written communication skills
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Adaptable and comfortable working through ambiguity
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Diplomatic and able to drive consensus across teams and vendors
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Results-oriented with strong attention to detail
- Private Wealth Management or Investment Advisory industry experience
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Marketing or digital platform implementation experience
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CMS platform migration experience (AEM, Sitecore, Contentful, etc.)
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Change Management and Training coordination exposure
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PMP certification
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Experience working with advisor-facing digital products or self-service website platforms
- Interview process: 1 interview to hire; virtual via MS Teams; approximately 1 1.5 hours in duration; conducted with Executive Director and other team members
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Candidates may begin while employment history is being verified; suppliers have 30 days from the start date to complete verification
This client is a leading Canadian financial services and private wealth management institution, operating extensively across Canada with a significant presence in major financial centres including Toronto. The organization employs thousands of professionals across banking, investment advisory, digital, marketing, and technology functions including program managers, business analysts, digital strategists, and vendor management specialists who collaborate across large-scale, cross-functional enterprise initiatives. With a team-oriented and relationship-driven culture, the organization is committed to advancing digital transformation and advisor enablement at scale.
GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Job Number: 26-09031
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