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The Pensions Project Delivery team is looking for a 14-month contract Project Delivery Lead who is passionate about enabling change that matters for our members. Reporting to the Manager of Pension Project Delivery, you will be a key contributor to major pension transformation initiatives, supporting alignment, readiness and successful delivery across business and technology partners.
This role requires a proactive connector, someone who sees the big picture, navigates complexity, builds trusted relationships, and confidently facilitates cross-functional work. You will play an important role in driving execution, uncovering risks early, and ensuring our teams stay coordinated and accountable.
What will you do:
- Drive delivery results: support the creation and execution of kickoff materials, schedules, resource coordination, and delivery milestones.
- Facilitate effectively: lead cross-functional discussions, plan and run meetings, ensure clarity of decisions, next steps and owners.
- Bridge the big picture with the details: connect the dots across workstreams, dependencies, timelines, risks and decision points.
- Champion risk and issue management: proactively identify risks and barriers, develop mitigation options, and escalate effectively when needed.
- Communicate with purpose: translate complex information into clear, concise updates for delivery teams, sponsors, and executives.
- Model strong stakeholder engagement: build relationships based on trust, credibility and responsiveness.
- Own governance quality and improvements: support project delivery structure and consistency, recommend improvements that enhance coordination, efficiency and cross-team alignment.
- Ensure accountability: surface gaps, follow up on pending tasks and ensure deliverables stay on track.
Who you are:
- Delivery-focused problem solver who is curious and asks the right questions to uncover needs and challenge assumptions.
- Listens actively and plays back what is heard to align teams and clarify understanding.
- Can influence without authority, leading cross-functional stakeholders toward shared solutions.
- Thrives in ambiguous environments and knows how to create structure from complexity.
- Communicates with confidence: written, verbal and in facilitation settings.
- Is detail-oriented and able to zoom out to keep the strategic view clear.
To succeed in this role, you have:
- A university/college degree with a focus in management, operations, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of project delivery experience with an ability to support multiple projects and changing priorities under tight deadlines with multiple stakeholders
- Willingness to learn and take on new opportunities
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Hands on experience with JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and other project management tools
- Ability to easily build rapport with others, including team members, peers, and executives
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively
- Knowledge of pension plans, systems and processes is an asset
- Project Management Professional (PMP)/Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is an asset
As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.
From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.