Employee Job Post End Date: 02/16/2026
About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Director, Business Services, the Senior Manager provides strategic leadership for IT–business partnership, prioritization, and delivery across Corporate functions. The role focuses on elevating business engagement, guiding portfolio planning, and aligning technology direction with enterprise priorities.
As the primary strategic relationship leader for Corporate IT, the Senior Manager builds trusted partnerships with executives and stakeholders, ensuring technology investments, performance, and outcomes directly support Cenovus’ business objectives. This is a highly visible role that plays a critical part in shaping how Corporate functions leverage technology to drive meaningful business results
What you’ll do:
Lead IT business engagement for Corporate functions to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
Set and govern performance metrics and drive continuous improvement across service delivery.
Manage Corporate IT investment planning and ensure transparent decision‑making with executives.
Lead option analysis and economic evaluations, shaping business cases that guide multi‑year technology investments.
Partner with the Strategy & Performance team to shape IT strategy and ensure domain-level architecture aligns with enterprise architecture guidelines throughout its lifecycle.
Drive prioritization for Corporate IT initiatives, ensuring decisions align with enterprise strategy and capacity.
Administer the IT Business Unit Operating Budget, including budgeting, forecasting, licensing, maintenance renewals, workforce planning, and software asset management.
Provide strategic oversight of application portfolios to ensure performance, lifecycle alignment, and value realization.
Experience navigating complex, multi‑stakeholder environments and shaping technology roadmaps across competing priorities
Who you are:
Minimum Qualifications for the Ideal Candidate:
Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.
16+ years related experience, with a minimum of 10 years progressive IT leadership experience, including leading leaders and influencing enterprise-level outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and guide technology strategy.
Deep expertise in IT business partnership and/or enterprise portfolio planning, with a proven ability to translate business strategy into technology direction.
Proven track record of leading leaders and building high-performing, collaborative teams.
Ability to drive alignment and coordination across diverse IT functions.
Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills and executive-level communication capabilities.
A degree in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Data Science is considered an asset.
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
Note:
The Final date to receive applications for this position is 11:59 PM MT February 15, 2026.
Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities.
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Who we are:
Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia.
Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
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