Director, It Project Management

About Us

Backed by a 50-year legacy of engineering excellence, reliability and industry-leading customer service, Telesat has grown to be one of the largest and most successful global satellite operators. Telesat works collaboratively with its customers to deliver critical connectivity solutions that tackle the world’s most complex communications challenges, providing powerful advantages that improve their operations and drive growth.

In addition to our state-of-the-art global, geostationary satellite fleet, Telesat Lightspeed, our Low Earth Orbit network scheduled to begin service in 2022, will revolutionize global broadband connectivity by delivering a combination of high capacity, security, resiliency and affordability with ultra-low latency and fiber-like speeds.

Telesat also provides industry-leading technical consultation and support services to satellite operators, insurers and other industry stakeholders around the globe.

Privately held and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices and facilities around the world, Telesat’s principal shareholders are Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LORL). For more information, visit www.telesat.com.

About the Role

As Director, IT Project Management, you will be responsible for the delivery of all major IT projects at Telesat and you will play a key role in planning, organizing, and overseeing the delivery of several new major business and technical systems required for the Lightspeed constellation. This is an exciting opportunity to build the next generation of world class telecommunication systems from a clean slate.

This role is located in Ottawa, Ontario where the resource is required to be on site 3 days per week.

You will be responsible for all aspects of project delivery including methodology, tracking, reporting, and communication, and you will lead a team of project managers assigned to your multiple initiatives. This is a senior role for a dynamic, hands on, and results-oriented individual.

How you will contribute:

• Design and build the program and project functions within the IT group.
• Personally, lead particularly challenging projects
• Leverage internal and external resources to staff projects
• Ensure that adequate change management is included in all projects in order to ensure adoption and the realization of expected benefits
• Ensure effective communication mechanisms are in place and manage all communications to team and key stakeholders
• Evaluate and lead project managers and other team members in the delivery of projects. Provide formal and informal coaching to team members
• Implement program and project related standards, policies, and procedures. Initiate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects in a complex and highly technical business environment.
• Maintain relationships with key service providers and lead procurement processes to source delivery capacity either as staff augmentation or as outcome-based agreements
• Work with key stakeholders to scope out projects, understand business requirements and expected benefits, and develop project plans

Education & Experience Required:

• Minimum 10 years' experience leading large IT projects
• Knowledge of the telecommunication industry desirable
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with agile software project delivery; implementation projects of COTS software with associated configurations, customizations and integrations; mobile application development projects; delivery of on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure in support of project implementation
• Minimum 5 years' experience managing other project managers
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent organizational, planning, analytical and problem-solving skills

Additional Skills

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and to foster team work
• Ability to maintain strong relationships with all levels of management

The successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP)

At Telesat, we take pride in being an equal opportunity employer that values equality in the workplace. We are committed to providing the best candidate experience possible including any required accommodations at every stage of our interview process. All qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview that require accommodations, are advised to inform the Telesat Talent team accordingly. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential.