Strategic Project Manager, Data Strategy-EN

CAE; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Insurance

Telemedicine Employee and Family Help

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Group RRSP

CAE Pension Plan/Defined Benefit Plan

Sabbatical Leave

Flex Time

Enhanced Parental Leave

Job summary

CAE is seeking a Strategic Program Manager to own the creation, planning, orchestration, and execution of the Data Strategy roadmap. You will translate enterprise strategy into a data roadmap and connect strategy teams with execution units to drive measurable business outcomes.

You will lead enterprise planning, prioritization, and governance activities, coordinating across governance, analytics, platform adoption, and data literacy to ensure value realization and KPI alignment.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, analytics, project management, business or a related field.
• A minimum of 8-12 years of relevant experience managing increasingly complex projects, including at least 3 years in a project management role.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem‑solving skills.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira)
• Highly collaborative, credible, and comfortable navigating competing priorities
• A results‑driven mindset with a strong focus on achieving project objectives
• Bilingualism (French and English)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the multi-year Data Strategy roadmap aligned to corporate strategy and value drivers.
• Translate strategic objectives into data dependencies and decision points.
• Coordinate sequencing across governance, data quality, analytics enablement and platform adoption.
• Establish integrated plans, progress tracking, risk and dependency management.
• Ensure delivery commitments are visible and actively managed across stakeholders.
• Run intake and prioritization for enterprise data initiatives aligned to strategy.
• Support investment cases and sequencing decisions with data-driven analysis.
• Align data needs across transformation streams to a single source of truth for KPIs and insights.
• Coordinate across Strategy, Transformation, Corporate functions, BI, and Data Governance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Collaboration

Results-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, analytics, project management, business or related field

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Job description

CAE has embarked on a transformation that will shape the long‑term future of the business. To successfully execute this ambition, we are seeking a Strategic Program Manager to own the creation, planning, orchestration, and execution of CAE’s Data Strategy roadmap.

This role is responsible for translating enterprise strategy & transformation, into an aligned data strategy roadmap. Acting as the connective tissue between strategy, business leaders, and execution teams, the role ensures that data work delivers measurable business outcomes, not just technical outputs.

Description

Enterprise Program Planning & Road mapping

• Build and maintain the multi‑year Data Strategy roadmap, aligning initiatives to corporate strategy, transformation priorities, and business value drivers
• Translate strategic objectives into clear data dependencies, and decision points
• Coordinate sequencing across domains such as governance, data quality, analytics enablement, platform adoption, and data literacy

Execution Management & Progress Tracking

• Establish program management disciplines including:
• Integrated plans and schedules
• Progress tracking and status reporting
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Ensure delivery commitments are visible, realistic, and actively managed across business and technology stakeholders

Strategic Alignment & Prioritization

• Run the intake and prioritization process for enterprise data initiatives, ensuring alignment to CAE’s strategy and value creation objectives
• Support investment cases, trade‑off discussions, and sequencing decisions with fact‑based analysis
• Ensure data needs are aligned between all the various transformation streams and strategic objectives, to guarantee a single source of truth for any KPI, dataset, and insight.

Stakeholder Coordination & Governance

• Act as primary coordination points across the following teams from a data requirements perspective: Strategy, Transformation office, Corporate functions, Division Business Intelligence, Data Governance
• Support the cadence, materials, and follow‑ups for Data Councils, steering forums, and governance bodies

Value Realization & Outcomes Tracking

• Define and track outcome‑based success measures tied to data initiatives (e.g., adoption, data quality improvements, decision enablement)
• Ensure initiatives are anchored to business outcomes rather than technology outputs alone
• Prepare executive updates linking progress to tangible business impact
• As required, develop and build investment books in support of the Data Strategy roadmap objectives.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, analytics, project management, business or a related field
• A minimum of 8-12 years of relevant experience managing increasingly complex projects, including at least 3 years in a project management role
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem‑solving skills
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira)
• Highly collaborative, credible, and comfortable navigating competing priorities
• A results‑driven mindset with a strong focus on achieving project objectives
• Bilingualism (French and English)

Preferred Qualifications

• PMI certification (e.g., PMP)
• Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability
• Experience in data and analytics functions
• Flexibility and agility in managing priorities, adapting to evolving needs and project urgency

Benefits

• Group Insurance
• Telemedicine Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Group RRSP
• CAE Pension Plan/Defined Benefit Plan
• Sabbatical Leave
• Flex Time
• Enhanced Parental Leave

About CAE

At CAE, our mission is clear: to help make the world a safer place. For nearly 80 years, we’ve driven innovation in simulation, training, and mission readiness to support critical operations worldwide. By leveraging advanced technologies, we empower our customers to operate smarter, faster, and more sustainably. Join a purpose‑driven organization where bold ideas are encouraged, collaboration drives progress, and your growth fuels our shared success.

Position Type

Regular

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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