About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Senior Project Manager in the newly created Commercial Banking Project Management Office (PMO), you will play a critical role in shaping business solutions and driving project success. You will work as part of a collaborative team that is a catalyst for delivering transformation initiatives, accelerating value creation, and infusing Agile ways of working that drive continuous improvement.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will drive RBC’s most complex initiatives, aligning them with platform goals and strategic priorities. You will develop program roadmaps, coordinate cross-functional teams, and engage stakeholders to define scope, prioritize tasks, and ensure clear communication. Your role includes implementing risk management strategies, fostering proactive problem-solving, and advancing business agility through continuous improvement. You will also analyze performance metrics and apply lessons learned to optimize future planning and value delivery.
What will you do?
- Leadership: Define team roles and responsibilities, ensuring alignment on goals and expectations. Foster engagement by promoting team effectiveness, a safe-to-speak environment, and recognizing achievements. Lead change management activities with robust plans and clear communication.
- Business Agility: Utilize tools and routines to enhance transparency, collaboration, and roadblock removal. Encourage self-organization and cross-functionality within the team. Track performance and drive process improvements using data insights.
- Stakeholder Management: Identify and prioritize stakeholder needs, ensuring effective onboarding and communication of strategic goals. Build trust through transparency, manage conflicts, and maintain strong relationships with partners.
- Planning & Schedule Management: Develop fit-for-purpose project structures balancing value and delivery frameworks. Create and adapt plans as priorities shift, guiding the team through ambiguity and focusing on high-value work. Communicate schedule updates clearly to stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement: Promote feedback to simplify processes and champion innovative thinking. Implement frameworks to drive continuous improvement and optimize workflows.
- Communication & Facilitation: Deliver clear, tailored communications to stakeholders and teams. Facilitate inclusive and relevant meetings, leveraging tools to enhance engagement and clarity.
- Risk Management: Proactively assess risks and issues, engaging stakeholders and implementing mitigation strategies to minimize disruptions. Maintain transparent communication on risk status.
- Delivery Tools & Frameworks: Lead adoption of enterprise tools (Jira, Confluence, Mural) to support delivery. Apply and educate teams on RBC’s project management policies, standards, and frameworks.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- 5 years of relevant project management experience, including leading large-scale, complex cross-functional projects
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity while applying delivery frameworks to achieve successful outcomes
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills, with a focus on influencing outcomes and building partnerships with senior leaders and vendors
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including tailoring messages, delivering presentations, and leading discussions for senior audiences
- Demonstrated agile delivery experience, including setting up agile squads, influencing ways of working, and establishing effective routines
- Advanced planning expertise, with experience creating and maintaining integrated project schedules, roadmaps, and status reports
- Experience in measuring initiative value by setting and monitoring objectives and key results aligned with business goals
- Experience in project financial management, including budget planning, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis, and vendor invoicing
- Proficient in risk and issue management, including conducting assessments, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring transparent reporting
Nice to Have:
- Experience in commercial banking or financial services
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Designation and/or Project Management Professional/Program Management Professional (PMP/PgMP) Designation
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
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.
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Opportunities to do challenging work
Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Project Management, Stakeholder Management
Additional Job Details
Address:
RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-09-16
Application Deadline:
2025-09-27
Note**:** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
I****nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
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About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Senior Project Manager in the newly created Commercial Banking Project Management Office (PMO), you will play a critical role in shaping business solutions and driving project success. You will work as part of a collaborative team that is a catalyst for delivering transformation initiatives, accelerating value creation, and infusing Agile ways of working that drive continuous improvement.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will drive RBC’s most complex initiatives, aligning them with platform goals and strategic priorities. You will develop program roadmaps, coordinate cross-functional teams, and engage stakeholders to define scope, prioritize tasks, and ensure clear communication. Your role includes implementing risk management strategies, fostering proactive problem-solving, and advancing business agility through continuous improvement. You will also analyze performance metrics and apply lessons learned to optimize future planning and value delivery.
What will you do?
- Leadership: Define team roles and responsibilities, ensuring alignment on goals and expectations. Foster engagement by promoting team effectiveness, a safe-to-speak environment, and recognizing achievements. Lead change management activities with robust plans and clear communication.
- Business Agility: Utilize tools and routines to enhance transparency, collaboration, and roadblock removal. Encourage self-organization and cross-functionality within the team. Track performance and drive process improvements using data insights.
- Stakeholder Management: Identify and prioritize stakeholder needs, ensuring effective onboarding and communication of strategic goals. Build trust through transparency, manage conflicts, and maintain strong relationships with partners.
- Planning & Schedule Management: Develop fit-for-purpose project structures balancing value and delivery frameworks. Create and adapt plans as priorities shift, guiding the team through ambiguity and focusing on high-value work. Communicate schedule updates clearly to stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement: Promote feedback to simplify processes and champion innovative thinking. Implement frameworks to drive continuous improvement and optimize workflows.
- Communication & Facilitation: Deliver clear, tailored communications to stakeholders and teams. Facilitate inclusive and relevant meetings, leveraging tools to enhance engagement and clarity.
- Risk Management: Proactively assess risks and issues, engaging stakeholders and implementing mitigation strategies to minimize disruptions. Maintain transparent communication on risk status.
- Delivery Tools & Frameworks: Lead adoption of enterprise tools (Jira, Confluence, Mural) to support delivery. Apply and educate teams on RBC’s project management policies, standards, and frameworks.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- 5 years of relevant project management experience, including leading large-scale, complex cross-functional projects
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity while applying delivery frameworks to achieve successful outcomes
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills, with a focus on influencing outcomes and building partnerships with senior leaders and vendors
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including tailoring messages, delivering presentations, and leading discussions for senior audiences
- Demonstrated agile delivery experience, including setting up agile squads, influencing ways of working, and establishing effective routines
- Advanced planning expertise, with experience creating and maintaining integrated project schedules, roadmaps, and status reports
- Experience in measuring initiative value by setting and monitoring objectives and key results aligned with business goals
- Experience in project financial management, including budget planning, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis, and vendor invoicing
- Proficient in risk and issue management, including conducting assessments, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring transparent reporting
Nice to Have:
- Experience in commercial banking or financial services
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Designation and/or Project Management Professional/Program Management Professional (PMP/PgMP) Designation
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
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.
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Opportunities to do challenging work
Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Project Management, Stakeholder Management
Additional Job Details
Address:
RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-09-16
Application Deadline:
2025-09-27
Note**:** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
I****nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.