Senior Manager, Product Development and Delivery

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What you'll be doing

As a member of CIBC’s team, the Senior Manager, Product Development and Delivery is a seasoned technology delivery leader responsible for overseeing complex projects and a portfolio of initiatives in a matrixed environment. This role provides day-to-day leadership, guidance, and governance oversight to project managers, ensuring consistent execution, adherence to project control procedures, and alignment with Technology’s delivery standards. Working with minimal direction, the Senior Manager applies deep project delivery expertise to drive planning, reporting, risk management, financial discipline, stakeholder engagement, and successful implementation across initiatives. The role also builds strong relationships with business partners, senior leaders, delivery teams, vendors, and external stakeholders, providing clear status updates, executive-level reporting, and timely escalation of risks, issues, scope changes, and timeline constraints.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 day per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How you'll succeed

- Delivery Oversight – Provide leadership across multiple initiatives, ensuring project managers establish clear goals, scope, terms of reference, resource plans, budgets, milestones, and delivery plans. Monitor progress across the portfolio and ensure projects remain aligned to business priorities, delivery standards, and stakeholder expectations.

- Stakeholder Collaboration – Partner with business, technology, operations, risk, and client-facing stakeholders to support informed decisions and successful delivery outcomes. Facilitate alignment across teams, negotiate priorities, manage dependencies, and ensure stakeholders have a clear voice throughout the delivery lifecycle.

- Governance, Risk, and Financial Discipline – Proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery constraints, and drive timely mitigation or escalation. Monitor project milestones, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and financials to ensure initiatives are delivered within approved scope, timelines, and funding expectations.