Senior Manager, Product Development and Delivery
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About the Role
CIBC seeks a Senior Manager, Product Development and Delivery to oversee complex projects and a portfolio of initiatives in a matrixed environment. You will provide leadership to project managers, manage governance, risk, and financial discipline, and build relationships with stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Provide leadership across multiple initiatives, ensuring project managers establish clear goals, scope, resource plans, budgets, milestones, and delivery plans
- Monitor progress across the portfolio and ensure alignment to business priorities and delivery standards
- Partner with business, technology, operations, risk, and client facing stakeholders to support informed decisions
- Proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery constraints, and drive mitigation or escalation
- Monitor project milestones, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and financials
- Lead, coach, and develop a high performing team of project managers and delivery professionals
- Build trusted relationships with clients, business partners, application owners, vendors, and senior leaders
- Prepare clear executive level updates, decision materials, and escalation summaries
Requirements
- 5–8 years of project delivery or project management experience, ideally in financial services or technology
- Experience leading cross portfolio initiatives in a matrixed environment
- Strong knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies, SDLC, project governance, risk management, financial tracking, and delivery reporting
- Experience with Planview, ServiceNow, and JIRA
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Business, Technology, or related field
- Project management certification or equivalent delivery leadership experience is an asset
- Bilingual (French or Spanish) is an asset
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What you'll be doing
- As a member of CIBC’s team, the Senior Manager, Product Development and Delivery is a seasoned technology delivery leader responsible for overseeing complex projects and a portfolio of initiatives in a matrixed environment.
- This role provides day to day leadership, guidance, and governance oversight to project managers, ensuring consistent execution and alignment with Technology’s delivery standards.
- The role builds strong relationships with business partners, senior leaders, delivery teams, vendors, and external stakeholders.
How you'll succeed
- Provide leadership across multiple initiatives, ensuring project managers establish clear goals, scope, terms of reference, resource plans, budgets, milestones, and delivery plans.
- Monitor progress across the portfolio and ensure projects remain aligned to business priorities, delivery standards, and stakeholder expectations.
- Partner with business, technology, operations, risk, and client facing stakeholders to support informed decisions and successful delivery outcomes.
- Proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery constraints, and drive timely mitigation or escalation.
- Monitor project milestones, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and financials to ensure initiatives are delivered within approved scope, timelines, and funding expectations.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high performing team of project managers and delivery professionals.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, business partners, application owners, vendors, and senior leaders.
- Prepare clear executive level updates, decision materials, and escalation summaries.
Who you are
- 5–8 years of project delivery or project management experience, ideally within the financial services or technology industry.
- Experience leading cross portfolio initiatives in a matrixed environment and overseeing project managers or delivery teams.
- Strong knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies, SDLC, project governance, risk management, financial tracking, and delivery reporting.
- Experience with Planview, ServiceNow, and JIRA.
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Business, Technology, or a related field.
- Project management certification or equivalent delivery leadership experience is an asset.
- Bilingual (French or Spanish) is an asset.
Work arrangement
- Hybrid work arrangement: 1 3 days per week on site, other days remote.
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