# AVP, IT Delivery Lead

**Company**: Aviva Canada
**Location**: Markham
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated AVP, IT Delivery Lead to support our team and work towards achieving results within budget, schedule, and scope constraints. As a leader, influencer, and collaborator, you will play a crucial role in delivering large-scale IT programs.

**Responsibilities:**

- Program & Project Planning: Develop integrated project plans, including scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.

- Team Leadership: Lead project teams, including internal and external partners, to ensure alignment with project goals and objectives.

- Risk Management: Lead initiatives to strengthen risk identification, escalation, mitigation, and control adherence across IT and Operations.

- Partner Engagement: Foster strong relationships with clients, vendors, and team members to improve collaboration and project success.

- Communication: Maintain clear and open communication channels with project partners, providing regular updates and reports.

- Scope Management: Work closely with the business to baseline and monitor project scope and activate change requests as needed.

- Financial Management: Produce cost models, maintain budgets and expenditures, making vital adjustments to stay within budget.

- Quality Assurance: Ensure project results meet quality standards and best practices.

- Governance & Reporting: Maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and other artefacts.

- Multi-Program Delivery: Lead multiple large, complex IT programs concurrently, balancing priorities, scope, and resources to deliver on time and within budget.

- Cross-Program Dependency Management: Identify, track, and manage interdependencies, shared resources, and timelines across programs to reduce conflicts and delivery risk.

- Problem Solving: Identify and resolve project issues and obstacles to keep projects on track.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

- Project management certification (e.g., PMP) is an asset.

- At least 7 years of experience managing projects with large budgets, complex solutions, and multiple-year duration.

- Experience overseeing multiple projects within a program structure.

- Proven track record of leading multiple large-scale IT programs concurrently, delivering on time, within budget, and to agreed scope.

- Experience managing dependencies, shared resources, and competing priorities across a portfolio of enterprise IT initiatives.

- Ability to lead large, multi-disciplinary teams, including vendor and system integrator partners.

- Excellent leadership, communication, management, and interpersonal skills.

- Proficiency in MS Project, Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Teams, and SharePoint.

- Proficiency in JIRA and Confluence.

**Benefits:**

- Compelling rewards package, including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

- Outstanding career development opportunities.

- Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year.

- Employee-driven programs focused on diversity and inclusion.

- Corporate wellness programs to support employees' physical and mental health.

- Employee discount on home and auto insurance.

- Hybrid flexible work model.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Risk Management
- Financial Management
- Quality Assurance
- Governance
- Problem Solving
- MS Project
- Microsoft Suite
- JIRA
- Confluence

### Nice to have
- Insurance Background
- PMP Certification

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