Project Director

Presence: Hybrid

Category: Senior Professional

Contract Type: Permanent A career as a Project Director in the IT, Cross-Solutions, Acceleration, and Data team at Banque Nationale is about acting as an orchestrator to deliver our technological projects and bring value.

This role allows you to have a positive impact on our organization, thanks to your leadership, exceptional organization, and project delivery experience.

Your Role

• Manage and implement large-scale technological projects using agile/hybrid principles, ensuring scope, cost, and timeline adherence
• Collaborate with delivery teams to deliver cloud solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and performance
• Diagnose problematic situations, intervene, and engage in resolving complex issues by implementing solutions
• Identify and manage project risks and challenges proactively
• Produce reports for project progress tracking and provide status updates, adapting communication to the audience
• Ensure alignment between IT and Business teams regarding project dependencies
• Be a transformation agent to promote our values and foster an agile, AI, and collaborative culture among teams
• Maintain constant communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Your Team

IT and Operations consist of over 5,500 experts working in an agile, proactive, and collaborative manner to seize opportunities, stay at the forefront of technologies, and continuously improve processes.

You report to the Senior Vice President, Delivery Performance. In this role, you contribute to a major transformation of the Finance Vice Presidency and will lead projects in this sector.

You have a direct impact on the performance and evolution of technological capabilities and thrive in a dynamic, innovative, and collaborative environment.

Our team stands out for its collaboration, agility, and commitment to continuous improvement. We aim to offer you maximum flexibility to enhance your quality of life. This is reflected in a hybrid work environment, located in one of the beautiful buildings in downtown Montreal.

Banque Nationale values continuous development and internal mobility. Our customized training programs, based on action-based learning, allow you to master your craft and develop new areas of expertise.

Tools such as UdeMy, the Data Academy, language training, the Harvard Learning Center, and coaching and mentoring support are available at all times.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 5 years of relevant experience
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a project manager on large-scale and enterprise projects
• Strong knowledge of project management best practices, including budget management, forecasting, and risk management
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Klaxoon
• Hands-on experience in cloud development projects (AWS or Azure) or SAAS solution integration, with a good understanding of modern cloud architectures
• Experience with SAP financial environments would be an asset
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to mobilize executives, technical teams, and business stakeholders
• Experience in facilitating workshops and coaching
• Passion for innovation, idea-sharing, and contributing to organizational transformation, including AI.
• Your Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a range of flexible benefits upon hiring to support your well-being and that of your family, including:

• Comprehensive health and well-being program with numerous options
• Flexible group insurance
• Generous retirement plan
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Employee assistance program
• Preferred banking services
• Community involvement
• Telemedicine service
• Virtual sleep improvement clinic

We offer an evolving offer that attends to trends, your needs, and those of your loved ones.

Our dynamic work environments and modern collaboration tools foster a pleasant employee experience. We value the ideas of our staff members. Whether through our surveys or programs, continuous dialogue and feedback are encouraged.

The Boldness to Act in a Human Environment

We are a human-sized bank that stands out for its boldness, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. We exist to have a positive impact on people's lives. Our core values of camaraderie, agility, and power to act are our sources of inspiration. Inclusion is at the heart of our commitments. We aim, as much as possible, to offer an obstacle-free and accessible work environment for all employees.

We aim to provide, to the extent of our means, accessibility measures during the recruitment process. If you need accommodations, please let us know during your initial interactions with us. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and would like to know what you can bring to our team.

Join us!

Other required languages: English, French

Skills: Meeting facilitation, Organizational learning, Coaching, Communication, Active listening, Project management, Risk management, Change management, Project governance, Influencing others, Agile methodology, Mobilization, Decision-making, Resilience