Senior Program Manager, Transformation

Socket.dev; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards program

Flexible benefits

Job summary

RBC Insurance in Mississauga seeks a Senior Agile Program Manager, Transformation, to lead a portfolio of strategic transformation programs aligned to RBC Insurance’s strategy. You will partner with senior leadership across lines on product development, client experience, distribution, and operational efficiencies.

You will drive execution, establish milestones, and promote agile methods to strengthen organizational transformation and delivery capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in large-scale transformation and complex program/portfolio management.
• Exceptional ability to build strategic narratives and communicate to executives.
• Strong project/program delivery expertise with agile and traditional methodologies.
• Excellent relationship management and stakeholder communication skills.
• Advanced financial management and budget oversight experience.
• High resourcefulness and leadership to exceed expectations.

Responsibilities

• Support strategy development and execution across multiple domains and programs.
• Prepare executive-level strategic narratives for senior leadership and the C-suite.
• Facilitate joint planning with clients and partners from formation to completion.
• Ensure delivery of prioritized portfolio scope while managing risk and governance.
• Establish milestones and enablement requirements; drive organizational readiness.
• Introduce agile and streamlined approaches to portfolio delivery across frameworks.
• Coach stakeholders to align requirements with transformation principles.

Skills

Strategic storytelling

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Budget oversight

Leadership

Portfolio delivery

Risk governance

Tools

Planview

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

The Insurance Strategy & Transformation team plays a crucial role in developing and monitoring strategies and driving RBC Insurance and Enterprise-wide transformation programs. As a Senior Agile Program Manager, Transformation, you will lead a portfolio of strategic and transformation programs, aligned to RBC Insurance’s strategy and business imperatives. You'll bridge strategy and execution by partnering with senior leadership across our business lines on topics ranging from product development, client experience, distribution, and operational efficiencies. This is an opportunity to shape how RBC Insurance executes its most critical initiatives while building organizational capability for sustained strategic delivery and transformation.

What will you do?

Strategic Development, Transformation Leadership & Execution

• Support strategy development and execution engagements across multiple business domains and enterprise-wide programs
• Build executive-level strategic narratives and communications for senior leadership and C-suite audiences
• Facilitate joint planning with clients and partners across portfolio initiatives from formation through completion
• Lead effective planning and oversight to ensure successful delivery of prioritized portfolio scope while managing risk and governance expectations
• Establish initiative kick-offs, develop high-level milestone planning, and manage delivery of business readiness and enablement requirements
• Introduce agility and streamlined approaches to portfolio execution, leveraging frameworks such as Agile, iWF, and AMF methodologies
• Coach and mentor business stakeholders to align requirements and delivery approaches with organizational transformation principles

Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Foster and maintain collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders across the enterprise
• Identify resource and capability requirements for portfolio execution; resolve resource constraints and manage vendor/supplier relationships
• Provide senior management with timely updates on portfolio performance, risks, and issues
• Calibrate with Transformation Leads, Journey Leads, and Digital Product Managers and Owners to ensure alignment across all portfolio work to strategic roadmaps and OKRs

Portfolio Governance & Financial Management

• Highlight, communicate, and manage delivery risk using enterprise risk processes, agile events, and portfolio management tools (RTA, Planview, etc.)
• Support scope management, backlog refinement, and portfolio change management activities
• Manage portfolio-level financials, ensuring accurate forecasting and reporting in Planview and other systems to inform enterprise financial planning
• Monitor overall portfolio health and quality through effective status reporting and metrics

Organizational Excellence & Innovation

• Elevate performance of portfolio teams by promoting innovative methods and implementing best practices
• Demonstrate leadership, foster team collaboration, and encourage continuous improvement and innovation
• Identify missing capabilities or techniques and develop solutions to improve portfolio delivery
• Seek out industry knowledge and best practices to identify alternative approaches and solutions

What will you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 5+ years of experience in large-scale transformation, and complex program/portfolio management
• Exceptional ability to build strategic narratives and communicate them effectively to executives
• Strong project/program delivery expertise with demonstrated success in agile and traditional methodologies
• Excellent relationship management and stakeholder communication skills
• Advanced financial management and budget oversight experience
• High resourcefulness and ingenuity in solving complex organizational barriers
• Demonstrated leadership ability with strong drive to exceed expectations

Nice to Have

• 2+ years of consulting experience at a top-tier consulting or management advisory firm
• Product management or business development experience
• Background in insurance, financial services, or complex enterprise environments
• Experience with portfolio management tools (Planview, Jira, Confluence)
• Expertise in agile methodologies and organizational transformation frameworks

What’s in it for you?

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Flexible work/life balance options
• RBCI software tools to boost your productivity
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business

Job Skills

Adaptability, Budgeting, Business Oriented, Decision Making, Long Term Planning, Resource Management, Results-Oriented, Team Management, Time Management, Waterfall Model

Additional Job Details

Address: MEADOWVALE BUSINESS PARK, 6880 FINANCIAL DR:MISSISSAUGA

City: Mississauga

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: INSURANCE

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2026-08-28

Application Deadline: 2026-09-11

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Compensation for this position (including salary and discretionary/variable payments) will be determined by factors, including but not limited to candidate's experience, skills, registration status, performance, individual goals, market conditions, and business needs.

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position is:

$90,000.00 - $140,000.00

The pay range provided is for the primary work location referenced in the Additional Job Details section of this job posting. Pay ranges may differ based on location. If the posting lists multiple job locations, a recruiter can confirm availability of the role and the relevant pay rage for the additional locations listed. RBC supports pay transparency and we strive to ensure all pay ranges are competitive, fair, and equitable.

You have the potential to earn RBC's discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided that business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.