Program Manager

IFG International Financial Group Ltd; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Toronto seeks a Program Manager to support a virtual team executing a focused Country Plan. Responsibilities include orchestrating meetings, managing marketing budgets, and tracking project impact. This role requires excellent collaboration, task orchestration, and stakeholder management skills, with the potential for extension beyond June 2023.

Qualifications

• Experience managing marketing budgets is required.
• Proven program management and stakeholder management experience needed.
• Experience managing teams is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Support initiative leads in coordinating meetings and agendas.
• Maintain and track marketing budgets, ensuring compliance.
• Capture and drive closure of action items from meetings.

Skills

Task orchestration

Collaboration

Note-taking

Proactiveness

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in business or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Duration: Jan 2023 - June 30, 2023 - potential for extension

Location: Hybrid - Downtown Toronto

Program Management Support & Scope

The Program Manager is a resource to help the virtual team execute a focused Country Plan effectively. The Program Manager is meant to take on work related to orchestration for the Pillar & Functional leads to free up bandwidth that can be applied towards plan execution. This is a shared resource for the team.

Program Manager Responsibilities

• Support the initiative lead in running the Pillar and Functional lead meetings, including scheduling, agenda alignment, communication, and preparation support.
• Support Pillar leads in running their pillar v-team meetings, including scheduling, agenda alignment, and communication.
• Capture actions in all meetings, maintain a central log, and drive timely closure of all actions.
• Own the initiative's marketing budget, working with the v-team to ensure timely and compliant spend, and measure ROMI with appropriate metrics. Collaborate closely with the Investment Controller for budget alignment.
• Provide visibility on the marketing budget status, surface risks related to over/under spend, and work with the v-team to course correct.
• Participate in all pillar v-team working sessions to support the pillar lead, drive synergies, surface conflicts, and determine efficient solutions.
• Track impact within each pillar, ensure KPI goals are met, and support internal communications, including quarterly slides and newsletters.
• Maintain and own the AICP Teams site.

Program Manager Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in business or related field.
• Strong task and meeting orchestration skills.
• Ability to collaborate with VPs and senior Directors.
• Excellent note-taking and follow-up skills.
• Experience managing marketing budgets.
• Proactiveness is essential.
• Proven program management and stakeholder management experience.
• Experience managing teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Understanding of project management principles.

For consideration, please email your resume to [e-mail] with "Program Manager" in the subject line.

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