Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Manager Project & Program Delivery

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years as a Senior Project/Program Manager on complex technology projects driven by regulatory compliance (FED, OSFI)
  • Proficient in project scheduling, risk management, budgeting, and conflict resolution
  • Experience in creating and tracking KPIs and success metrics
  • Excellent communication and data visualization skills for engaging stakeholders
  • Strong executive presence for communicating project health to senior leaders
  • Familiar with Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • Strong attention to detail and business acumen in project governance

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end SDLC adherence to the Enterprise Project Management Framework
  • Ensure accurate and up-to-date project health routines and reports
  • Collaborate to evolve project management tools and templates
  • Work with stakeholders to understand needs and report project status
  • Coordinate processes for project teams within the program
  • Manage all aspects of an organizational program to ensure project success

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Support for personal development through coaching
  • Opportunity to make a lasting impact
  • Dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team environment
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Challenging work opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

What will you do?
  • Drive the project through the end-to-end SDLC in adherence to the Enterprise Project Management Framework, leveraging standard project management tools, processes and best practices
  • Drive rigor and simplicity in project health routines, ensuring project status reports are up to date and accurate including financials, issues, risks and key decisions etc.
  • Collaborate within the team to evolve standard project management tools, templates and practices / routines (i.e. project/portfolio reporting).
  • Closely work with business stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, report project status, solve problems and use critical thinking to navigate through ambiguity.
  • Organizing and coordinating processes and procedures for all project teams to follow within the program.
  • Managing all aspects of an organizational program to ensure all projects within the program are implemented, accepted and accomplished within a set deadline.


What do you need to succeed?

Must Have
  • Minimum of 10 years as a Senior Project / Program Manager, planning and executing on high complexity, large scale technology projects / programs driven by regulatory compliance requirements (FED, OSFI)
  • Highly proficient in project scheduling and risk-based planning, scope change management, budgeting and project costs management, relationship management, resource leveling, risk management, conflict resolution
  • Lead KPI / success metric creation, tracking / reporting, trend analysis, issues resolution and escalation
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively deliver an impactful story that resonates and engages key stakeholders at all levels; excellent data visualization skills
  • Excellent executive presence, with the ability to effectively communicate project / portfolio health and financial performance to senior leaders, surfacing risks/issues that require leadership attention / support to mitigate
  • Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • Strong attention to detail and business acumen / organizational awareness, project governance and contract negotiation
  • Advanced skills in standard project management tools: MIS, Planview SaaS, MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, Excel and PowerPoint


Nice to Have
  • Project Management/Scrum Master certificate/training
  • Previous experience in delivering large regulatory programs/initiatives


What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
  • 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
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


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Job Skills
Adaptability, Agile Project Delivery, Agile Scrum Project Management, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Budgeting, Business Oriented, Capital Markets, Decision Making, Deliverables Management, Long Term Planning, Project Planning, Regulatory Reporting, Resource Management, Results-Oriented, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Team Management, Time Management, Waterfall Model

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-03

Application Deadline:

2026-08-08
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.

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