Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Top Benefits
About the role
Description
Application Deadline:
08/30/2025
Address:
33 Dundas Street West
Job Family Group:
Technology
Accountable for leading a team to execute on Cloud Business Office roadmap to improve cloud business management across the enterprise to support the bank’s Digital Cloud First Strategy.
Establishes and maintains relationships with Cloud Service Providers, industry contacts and internal stakeholders to gather competitive insights and best practices to benchmark BMO’s Innovation and Digital Cloud First position to support cloud maturity and continually quantify growth and forward focus for the bank.
Works with stakeholders and the team to identify cloud business management gaps and anomalies. Prioritizes, executes, and adjusts (where needed) the team’s roadmap as well as drive the strategic planning process for Cloud Business Office, leveraging market trends, global competitors, and scenario planning as inputs to strategic planning to support Cloud Business Office governance, monitoring and performance as well as alignment to the Cloud Strategy.
- Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
- Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
- Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
- Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals
- Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
- Attracts, ... (full bullet list continues as in the posting)
Qualifications:
- Typically 10+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience, and industry knowledge.
- Cloud Knowledge is an asset
- Experience with people management
- Experience with project managing and leading a team
- Proficient with developing business strategy and assessments (i.e. feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments).
- Proficiency in business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle.
- Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various complexities.
- Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills - In-depth / Expert.
- Influence skills - In-depth / Expert.
- Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration/facilitation/providing direction - In-depth / Expert.
- Able to manage ambiguity.
- Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.
Salary :
$92, and $171,600.00
Pay Type:
Salaried
The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.
Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro‑rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.
BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance‑based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards
About Us
At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our ... (rest of the "About Us" section as in the posting)
To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.
About Desjardins
Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America and the fifth largest cooperative financial group in the world, with assets of $435.8 billion as at March 31, 2024. It was named one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine and by Mediacorp. To meet the diverse needs of its members and clients, Desjardins offers a full range of products and services to individuals and businesses through its extensive distribution network, online platforms and subsidiaries across Canada. Ranked among the world's strongest banks according to The Banker magazine, Desjardins has some of the highest capital ratios and credit ratings in the industry and the first according to Bloomberg News.
Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Top Benefits
About the role
Description
Application Deadline:
08/30/2025
Address:
33 Dundas Street West
Job Family Group:
Technology
Accountable for leading a team to execute on Cloud Business Office roadmap to improve cloud business management across the enterprise to support the bank’s Digital Cloud First Strategy.
Establishes and maintains relationships with Cloud Service Providers, industry contacts and internal stakeholders to gather competitive insights and best practices to benchmark BMO’s Innovation and Digital Cloud First position to support cloud maturity and continually quantify growth and forward focus for the bank.
Works with stakeholders and the team to identify cloud business management gaps and anomalies. Prioritizes, executes, and adjusts (where needed) the team’s roadmap as well as drive the strategic planning process for Cloud Business Office, leveraging market trends, global competitors, and scenario planning as inputs to strategic planning to support Cloud Business Office governance, monitoring and performance as well as alignment to the Cloud Strategy.
- Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
- Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
- Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
- Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals
- Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
- Attracts, ... (full bullet list continues as in the posting)
Qualifications:
- Typically 10+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience, and industry knowledge.
- Cloud Knowledge is an asset
- Experience with people management
- Experience with project managing and leading a team
- Proficient with developing business strategy and assessments (i.e. feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments).
- Proficiency in business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle.
- Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various complexities.
- Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills - In-depth / Expert.
- Influence skills - In-depth / Expert.
- Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration/facilitation/providing direction - In-depth / Expert.
- Able to manage ambiguity.
- Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.
Salary :
$92, and $171,600.00
Pay Type:
Salaried
The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.
Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro‑rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.
BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance‑based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards
About Us
At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our ... (rest of the "About Us" section as in the posting)
To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.
About Desjardins
Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America and the fifth largest cooperative financial group in the world, with assets of $435.8 billion as at March 31, 2024. It was named one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine and by Mediacorp. To meet the diverse needs of its members and clients, Desjardins offers a full range of products and services to individuals and businesses through its extensive distribution network, online platforms and subsidiaries across Canada. Ranked among the world's strongest banks according to The Banker magazine, Desjardins has some of the highest capital ratios and credit ratings in the industry and the first according to Bloomberg News.