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 work streams.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 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.

• Experience with in 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Program management certification.

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

• Experience in cyber risk reduction, audit, privacy, or control transformation.
• Exposure to OSFI-driven initiatives, including E-21 or E-23 programs.

• 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.
• Pragmatic judgment.
• Executive presence.
• Relationship-building.
• Accountability.