Senior Project Manager

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Role Overview

As a Senior Project Manager within our Transformation Management Office, reporting to the Director of Technology Transformation Management, you will operate with Project Director–level accountability. This includes leading large, complex initiatives with enterprise impact, providing executive decision support, and managing escalations beyond project execution. The role offers high visibility and requires strong influence with senior stakeholders, financial stewardship at scale, and a sharp focus on accountability and ROI across the portfolio.

What

You’ll Focus OnProject Support Model and Governance

• Develop governance frameworks and support models that ensure agility, adaptability, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Lead initiation, planning, monitoring, execution, and closing of multiple complex projects simultaneously, with accountability for integrated outcomes across initiatives.
• Manage dependencies, sequencing, and cumulative risk across programs.
• Collaborate with Business Leads to create project charters, ensuring alignment with business objectives and scope.
• Define Critical Success Factors with stakeholders to ensure delivery on time, on budget, and within scope.
• Build detailed work packages by sequencing activities, estimating durations, and defining roles and responsibilities.
• Establish realistic deadlines, develop change management and communication plans, and manage project financials with a focus on forecast accuracy, cost control, and variance management.
• Drive milestone deliverables by maintaining clear plans, controlling timelines, and empowering teams to deliver.

Elevate Strategic Business Partnership

• Position the TMO as a strategic business partner fully integrated into decision-making processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, embedded in planning and decision forums, supporting trade‑off decisions and enterprise priorities.
• Provide tailored project management solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Enforce Stakeholder Accountability and ROI Focus

• Build a culture of accountability by rigorously evaluating business cases and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
• Implement tracking mechanisms to monitor performance against defined metrics.
• Provide portfolio‑level visibility into delivery health, risk, and value realization to support executive decision‑making.

What You Have To Offer

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10+ years of project management experience, including at least 8 years leading complex, cross‑functional programs.
• Proven ability to manage multi‑million‑dollar budgets with strong financial acumen, including forecasting, cost control, and variance management.
• Experience managing challenging stakeholders and influencing senior executives.
• Strong problem‑solving agility using both traditional and innovative project management methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop team members while uplifting delivery capability across the enterprise.
• Executive presence and enterprise perspective, with the ability to operate confidently in high‑visibility forums.
• Exposure to Digital Experience Platforms and Cybersecurity is an asset.
• PMP certification or MBA preferred.
• Bilingualism in English and French is considered an asset, as this role supports collaboration and implementation across multiple provinces and provides support to Sobeys employees nationwide.

Who We Are

We started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, Fresh Co, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family. Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering…