Program Manager, OLMP (Ontario Laboratory Medicine Program Integration)

Ontario Health; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A provincial health agency in Toronto seeks a Program Manager for the Ontario Laboratory Medicine Program Integration. This role involves leading complex healthcare projects, building relationships with stakeholders, and improving health outcomes across Ontario. Candidates must have a Master’s degree and significant experience in project management within the healthcare sector. The position offers a hybrid work model and various benefits including paid medical and wellness accounts.

Benefits

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage

Health care spending or wellness account

Defined benefit pension plan

Career development opportunities

Collaborative team culture

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of project management experience in healthcare sector.
• Proven ability to deliver on complex initiatives.
• Experience in leading large meetings and groups.

Responsibilities

• Guide and manage complex governance planning activities.
• Lead design, launch, and evaluation of laboratory initiatives.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Change management

Education

Master’s degree in public health or related field

Tools

SQL

MS Excel

Job description

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Program Manager, OLMP (Ontario Laboratory Medicine Program Integration)

Apply locations Toronto, ON time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: August 20, 2025 (19 days left to apply) job requisition id R109239

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At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.

What Ontario Health offers:

Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day

• a health care spending or wellness spending account

• a p remium defined benefit pension plan

• three personal days and two float days annually

• three weeks’ vacation to start (for individual contributors), increasing to four weeks after two years

• c areer development opportunities

• a collaborative values-based team culture

• a wellness program

• a hybrid working model

• p articipation in Communities of Inclusion

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

This is a unique and rewarding opportunity for an accomplished professional to take a leadership role in provincial healthcare project and program management. As the Program Manager, OLMP Integration, you will provide expert guidance and oversight for the successful delivery of large-scale, complex, and cross-programmatic laboratory and IT-focused projects that are transforming Ontario’s healthcare landscape.

You will play a central role in coordinating integrated governance planning for critical laboratory programs—such as FIT and HPV testing—as well as in designing and implementing new province-wide testing initiatives. Your efforts will support the seamless delivery of these vital programs across diverse regions and service partners, requiring advanced change management and stakeholder engagement abilities.

You are a relationship builder with a reputation for trust and collaboration, able to unify teams and stakeholders toward common goals. Your experience spans healthcare system knowledge—particularly in laboratory medicine—along with proven skills in clinical, technical, digital, and service delivery implementation at both regional and provincial levels. You excel at managing multiple, concurrent projects, from established cancer screening programs to innovative new initiatives. Your analytical acumen ensures data-driven decision making and impactful recommendations that continually enhance project and program outcomes.

What you can expect:

• An influential role at the heart of healthcare transformation in Ontario.

• Opportunities to shape the future of laboratory and digital health programs with provincial reach.

• Collaboration with leading experts and decision-makers across the healthcare sector.

• A platform to demonstrate leadership, drive change, and contribute to improved health outcomes for Ontarians.

Join us as Program Manager, OLMP Integration, and help shape the next generation of laboratory medicine and digital health excellence in Ontario.

Here is what you will be doing:

• Program Leadership: Guide and manage complex governance planning activities for high-priority program and digital health initiatives, with a focus on laboratory medicine.

• Project Execution: Lead the design, launch, and evolution of prioritized laboratory initiatives, including HPV and FIT testing and digital integration projects.

• Strategic Problem Solving: Proactively identify challenges, build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups, and implement practical solutions and risk mitigation strategies.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Cultivate strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external leaders across Ontario Health (OH) teams, regional partners, and laboratory service providers.

• Governance Facilitation: Lead executive governance forums (such as those for CCC and OCSP), driving continuous improvement and implementing project enhancements as required.

• Program Monitoring and Evaluation: Oversee the planning, execution, and thorough evaluation of ongoing and new cancer screening initiatives, providing both quantitative and qualitative analytical support and recommendations for continuous advancement.

• Change Management: Apply advanced change management strategies to ensure successful adoption and integration of new and existing laboratory and digital health programs across Ontario.

Here is what you will need to be successful:

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in public health, business/health administration, public policy, operations management, health informatics, data analytics or a related field

• 8 - 10 years of project and/or program management experience in the healthcare sector (e.g. health system strategy, health policy/program development and implementation, digital health), managing medium to large projects/programs with progressively increasing scale and scope of execution authority

• Project Management Professional or related professional designation is an asset

• Experience in leading groups or large meetings and on a team in an ambiguous environment

• Proven ability to deliver on complex initiatives (e.g., implementation of a new program or initiative), working with multiple stakeholders, at a system-level

• Laboratory-related experience is an asset

Knowledge and Skills

• Strategic thinker with ability to connect multiple workstreams and stakeholders to accomplish goals and objectives of the program

• Demonstrated skill and ability to manage coordinated, efficient and collaborative cross functional teams

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including ability to clearly communicate complicated ideas to different audiences

• Exceptionally skilled at stakeholder engagement and management, including consensus building, change management, knowledge translation and leading collaborative working sessions

• Ability to translate broad concepts and system-level strategies into tangible action plans

• Knowledge of the health sector/government processes and structures

• Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work independently and highlight key risks to senior leadership team members as required

• Have practical experience in data preparation (data cleaning, quality control, and maintenance with attention to accuracy), data analysis, and statistical tool sets including but not limited to SQL (queries, views, stored procedures, functions), SAS, R, Python, with the ability to write queries to perform data analysis and understand data models

• Highly proficient in MS Excel (data manipulation, advanced formulas, and pivot tables). Including ability to manipulate data with spreadsheets, databases, and other analytics software

• Knowledge and adherence to privacy and confidentiality policies to protect data and information sources

• Experience working with population and health data (e.g., ON-Marg, PCCF, Postal Code Crosswalk, OLIS) is an asset

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Location

Toronto, Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)

Employment Type:

Permanent Full time

Contract Length:

N/A

Salary Band:

Band 7

External Application Deadline Date:

August 19, 2025

All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.

Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members ofBlack and racializedgroups; 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary individuals;and people living with disabilities.

Ontario Health is an accessible employer, and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please email [e-mail] and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.

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