Hybrid Senior Integration Program Manager - Data & Ops

SOCAN; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 122,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35-hour workweek

SOCAN fitness facility

Inclusive and collaborative workplace

Job summary

SOCAN seeks a Senior Integration Program Manager in Toronto to lead a multi-year post‑acquisition integration program, reporting to the COO and Executive Steering Committee. You will drive governance, roadmaps, and cross‑functional execution across Technology, Operations, Finance, and HR.

You will ensure business continuity, manage dependencies, and prepare Phase 2 planning with a focus on change management, risk control, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• University degree in business, operations, IT, finance, HR, or related field.
• PMP designation strongly preferred.
• Prosci, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent certification is an asset.
• Experience in media, technology, financial services, membership, royalty administration, or complex service organizations would be an asset.
• 10+ years of progressive experience leading complex programs, transformations, integrations, or enterprise-wide initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure integration activities do not negatively impact royalty processing, distributions, licensing operations, financial reporting, payroll, or other critical business functions.
• Own the overall integration roadmap, governance framework, master plan, critical path, risk register, dependency map, and executive reporting.
• Serve as the primary bridge between workstream teams and the Executive Steering Committee.
• Lead the Operations workstream directly while coordinating execution across Technology, Finance, HR, and other workstreams.
• Manage and coordinate workstream project managers/coordinators and leads, ensuring alignment of priorities, resources, timelines, and deliverables.
• Actively manage cross-workstream dependencies and sequencing to minimize operational risk and implementation conflicts.
• Oversee planning and execution of system implementations, data migrations, testing, cutover planning, stabilization activities, and operational readiness assessments.
• Maintain rigorous scope management and change control disciplines.
• Monitor integration synergies, benefits realization, efficiency gains, and cost reduction opportunities.
• Act as a neutral facilitator and problem solver when competing priorities or legacy practices create barriers to progress.
• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate integration risks and advance significant issues.
• Partner with HR, Communications & Marketing, and other business leaders to support communications, stakeholder engagement, readiness, training, and adoption activities.
• Build trust across both organizations while constructively challenging assumptions and maintaining focus on outcomes.
• Lead Phase 2 planning activities, integration sequencing, readiness assessments, and implementation preparation, including facilitation of the development of future-state operating model, organizational, governance, process, and technology recommendations by workstream leaders; challenge assumptions, provide integration insight, surface interdependencies, and ensure recommendations are coordinated across functions.

Skills

Research & problem-solving

Time management

MS Office proficiency

Budgeting basics

Change management

Education

University degree in Business/Operations/IT/Finance/HR

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Excel

Word

ERP experience

Job description

SOCAN seeks a Senior Integration Program Manager in Toronto to lead a multi-year post‑acquisition integration program, reporting to the COO and Executive Steering Committee. You will drive governance, roadmaps, and cross‑functional execution across Technology, Operations, Finance, and HR.

You will ensure business continuity, manage dependencies, and prepare Phase 2 planning with a focus on change management, risk control, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid work model.