Senior Director, Global Data Retention Program - Enterprise Data Governance

Be part of a global transformation initiative in the insurance sector for our client. This opportunity offers exposure to senior leaders, enterprise-wide collaboration, and the chance to contribute to a strategic program with long-term impact across multiple regions and business areas.

• Salaried: $100-115 per hour.

• Incorporated Business Rate: $115-130 per hour.

• 13-month contract.

• Potential extension and/or conversion to full-time employment.

• Full-time position: 37.50 hours per week.

• Hours from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm or 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

• Hybrid work model based in Waterloo, ON, or Toronto, ON.

• On-site presence required 1 to 2 days per month.

• Occasional flexibility required for meetings with global stakeholders.

• Travel requirement of less than 25%.

• Lead integrated delivery across discovery, planning, execution, and transition to sustainable business-as-usual controls.

• Establish and operate the program management office, including the integrated roadmap and master schedule.

• Coordinate regional delivery teams on work breakdown structures, resource plans, financial controls, and delivery standards.

• Design and operate governance forums, including steering committees, governance committees, and working-team forums.

• Lead project managers, workstream leads, internal teams, and external delivery partners.

• Set expectations, remove barriers, and drive timely decisions.

• Develop executive communications and reporting models.

• Create and maintain stakeholder, governance, communication, change, and adoption plans.

• Partner with business groups to sequence work based on risk, readiness, dependencies, and capacity.

• Drive execution across data inventory, risk tiering, security controls, classification, retention, disposition, and sustainment workstreams.

• Ensure delivery evidence, controls, and reporting are suitable for senior management, audit, and regulatory review.

• Manage vendors and systems integrators, including scope, deliverables, commercial performance, quality, and knowledge transfer.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Enterprise Program Leadership

• 10+ years of progressive experience leading large, complex enterprise programs, including global or multi-business transformations.

• Demonstrated success building and operating large PMOs.

• Experience building PMOs and governance structures from the ground up.

Industry & Domain Expertise

• Experience within financial services, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience delivering programs in data governance, cybersecurity, privacy, technology risk, regulatory remediation, or related domains.

• Working knowledge of data lifecycle management, data classification, retention, and disposition concepts.

Program Delivery & Governance

• Strong command of program governance, integrated planning, dependency management, RAID management, financial oversight, resource planning, and executive reporting.

• Experience leading federated programs and managing external delivery partners.

• Ability to translate strategic and risk objectives into executable plans and measurable outcomes.

Executive Stakeholder Management

• Experience working with CIO, AVP, VP, and SVP stakeholders.

• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and drive accountability without direct authority.

• Ability to build alignment across Technology, Data, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, Records Management, Audit, and business teams.

Education & Certifications

• Program management certification.

Data Governance & Information Management

• Direct experience with enterprise data governance, information management, records management, data retention, or data remediation initiatives.

Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Transformation

• Experience in cyber risk reduction, audit, privacy, or control transformation.

• Exposure to OSFI-driven initiatives, including E-21 or E-23 programs.

Transformation & Organizational Change

• Experience in operating-model design, organizational change, and business adoption.

• Experience using Agile and traditional delivery methodologies with sound judgment regarding their application.

• Ownership and drive.

• Self-directed execution.

• Executive communication.

• Enterprise perspective.

• Pragmatic judgment.

• Executive presence.

• Relationship-building.

• Accountability.

• Collaboration.

• Constructive challenge.

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