Executive IT Strategy & Operations Partner (Hybrid)

Apex Systems; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking an IT Strategy & Operations Partner to act as a trusted advisor to a senior technology executive. This senior management role blends strategy, governance, and organizational effectiveness to drive leadership alignment.

In this hybrid Toronto-area position, you will design leadership cadences, translate priorities into action, and prepare executive communications while guiding governance across transformation programs and operating model initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategy, transformation, PMO, or executive support functions.
• Ability to partner with senior leaders, including Directors, VPs, and Executives.
• Strong executive communication and presentation development skills.
• Demonstrated experience creating dashboards, governance routines, operating cadences, action trackers, and decision frameworks.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify priorities, and drive outcomes with limited direction.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities in matrixed environments.
• Excellent judgment and experience handling confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage leadership operating cadences, governance forums, executive reviews, and quarterly planning sessions.
• Develop agendas, executive briefings, decision logs, action trackers, and follow-up mechanisms.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable execution plans and track initiatives across multiple workstreams.
• Support governance activities across transformation programs, operational excellence initiatives, compliance, architecture, vendor management, and change initiatives.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, leadership updates, briefing notes, talking points, and strategic communications.
• Identify operational inefficiencies, ownership gaps, and cross-functional challenges, and facilitate alignment.

Skills

Strategy

PMO leadership

Executive communication

Governance

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking an IT Strategy & Operations Partner to act as a trusted advisor to a senior technology executive. This senior management role blends strategy, governance, and organizational effectiveness to drive leadership alignment.

In this hybrid Toronto-area position, you will design leadership cadences, translate priorities into action, and prepare executive communications while guiding governance across transformation programs and operating model initiatives.