Vice President, Technology Strategy & Performance in Winnipeg

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Responsibilities

• Ensuring Technology Delivers on its Mandate: Oversee end-to-end delivery of strategic technology programs and key business initiatives which rely on technology, ensuring they deliver the necessary business outcomes per stakeholder expectations.
• Creating a culture of Effective Digital Innovation: Model and coach critical behaviours for effective, controlled, agile and collaborative delivery as a department, ensuring optimum value from investment while promoting thoughtful experimentation and inherent compliance. Create a culture of ownership, transparent accountability and continuous improvement within the Technology Programs team.
• Designing and Implementing a Technology Delivery Model: Learning from existing processes in technology and the wider organization, develop a delivery framework that is fit for purpose, follows best practices, leverages accessible tools, is highly automated (or automatable) and can be universally adopted.
• Being the “face” of enabling Technology-powered opportunities: Act as a go-to for leaders across the organization when they have opportunities or use cases which would require the Technology team to consult, design, deliver or own a solution.
• Balancing agility and strategy: Act as the gatekeeper across all technology resources and investment, both internal and 3rd party, in a way that supports innovation, experimentation and quick wins, while ensuring the technology strategy and prioritized investments progress unhindered.
• Elevating the level of discussion on technology programs: Develop the appropriate stakeholder forums and mechanisms for work ingestion, prioritization (including trade-offs), decision-making; minimizing “update meetings” but encouraging passionate, unfiltered debate where it is needed on actionable items.
• Getting business value from all our work: Hold the organization accountable to follow the path to achieving business value without ignoring or introducing unexpected risks or costs.
• Bridging Silos and Translating Value: Act as a translator between departments, breaking down silos and building relationships to elevate understanding of initiatives and collaboration in their delivery.
• Bring transparent ways of working: Align the technology organization around its priorities in a way that is clear both within the team and to all stakeholders.
• Being an advocate for technology successes: Construct internal and external messaging about the achievements and deliveries of the technology organization.
• Successfully operating within constraints: Manage the Technology operating and initiative budgets, delivery timelines, resourcing and dependencies.
• Representing the organization: As a senior member of the leadership team, become comfortable discussing deliveries, strategy, industry trends and your own thought leadership.
• Leverage Powerful Partnerships: Learn the technology ecosystems of CIBC Mellon’s parent organizations, harnessing existing capabilities that catalyze our own technology deliveries.
• Deliver control and resilience above all else: Ensure the Technology team are sufficiently curious and knowledgeable to seek input from all relevant stakeholders.

Key Outcomes

• Successful delivery of business outcomes: Consistent achievement of business outcomes through implementation of technology programs.
• Matched stakeholder expectations: Clear, proactive engagement of a wide stakeholder community leading to technology deliveries that consistently meet anticipated needs.
• Enhanced and automated program governance: New ways of working requiring less manual overhead to execute and track programs.
• Improved delivery success: Critical and transparent assessment and prioritization of business opportunities.
• Active bi-lateral partnership: Consistent dialogue between Technology and business colleagues at every step of the program lifecycle.
• A spectrum of operating models: Providing technology engagement in a range of forms from casual experimentation to strategic enterprise implementations.

Qualifications

About You: You are a thoughtful, experienced collaborator with a track record of building, leading and influencing teams to achieve exceptional outcomes in complex environments. You thrive in hands-on roles, balancing strategic operation with the ability to execute and deliver solutions in an agile and tactical way. You bring an appreciation for the nuances of operating in a regulated industry, and experience in all elements of the program lifecycle.

You Excel At:

• Leading outcome-driven change and driving technology-based innovation in cross-functional, evolving organizations.
• Adept program planning and portfolio management, incorporating reactive and strategic needs.
• Building exceptional stakeholder relationships, ready for challenging and candid conversations.
• Bringing discipline to enterprise-wide transformation involving technology.
• Shaping and creating shared buy-in to strategic vision, priorities and compromises.
• Identifying and implementing improved ways of working.
• Financial, resource and vendor management, creating partnerships internally and externally to optimize yield.

Why Join Us?

This is your chance to make a lasting impact at the intersection of technology, data, and business transformation. You will help shape the future of a leading financial services firm, working alongside a newly appointed CIO and a refreshed technology leadership team.