Senior Manager, IT Portfolio and Performance Management

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more. 
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.

About the role

Join the Chief Information Officer team, in the Senior Manager, IT Portfolio and Performance Management position. In this role, you will provide strategic leadership and expert guidance in the planning, prioritization, governance, and optimization of the organization’s IT portfolio. You will enable and operationalize the frameworks, processes, and performance measures needed to ensure that programs, projects, resources, and investments are aligned with corporate strategies, operational capacity, and approved funding.

What you’ll do:

• Provide advice to senior management on IT portfolio prioritization, business case development, investment trade-offs, delivery risks, and performance trends to support decision-making led by IT senior leadership.

• Collect, consolidate, and analyze portfolio, program, financial, capacity, and performance data to support evidence-based decision-making.

• Manage the end-to-end IT portfolio lifecycle, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, monitoring, and reporting in alignment with governance direction and decisions set by IT Leadership.

• Support IT strategy development and multi-year planning activities through analysis, modelling, and recommendations.

• Determine appropriate IT staffing levels through internal capacity and demand planning to support leadership workforce decisions.

• Ensure processes are in place to capture, distribute, and effectively use IT knowledge across the enterprise.

• Align people, work and systems to achieve program and policy efficiencies and results.
• Develop objectives and take responsibility for engagement, enabling a culture of learning, performance management, as well as accountability within a divisional group, and create opportunities that encourage bilingualism and diversity while implementing practices to advance an inclusive, healthy organization, respectful of the diversity of people and their skills and free from harassment and discrimination.

What you should have:

• An undergraduate degree in information technology, business administration, finance, or a related field.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in IT portfolio, program, performance, workforce, or governance roles, including people leadership experience.
• Experience in portfolio, program, performance, financial, and governance management.
• A strong capability in business case development, investment analysis, and capacity/workforce planning, including partnering with HR on talent pipeline, engagement, and retention.
• A proven ability to translate IT strategy into execution, including operating model design, governance, standards, and performance measurement.
• Advanced analytical and decision‑making skills to balance strategy, cost, risk, and capacity and provide decision‑ready insights to senior leadership.
• Effective people and stakeholder leadership, with the ability to lead through influence, communicate clearly, and foster continuous learning and improvement.

Posting closing date: Note, the competition will remain active until filled. 

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion 

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion 

What happens after you apply 

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If you applied before and you were not successful don’t worry – we're always posting new positions, so don’t hesitate to give it another shot. We’re excited to see what you bring to the table this time around!