About the Role
Are you ready to lead the programs that power a global technology transformation?
At Thomson Reuters, we inform the way forward — delivering trusted content and technology that professionals and institutions rely on to make the right decisions. With over 27,000 employees across more than 70 countries, we're reshaping the future of professional work across law, tax, compliance, and journalism, backed by more than $200 million in annual AI investment and over 30 years of innovation in artificial intelligence.
We are looking for a Senior Manager, Program Management to join our CIO Strategy & Operations team. CIO Strategy & Operations brings together CIO Strategy, PMO, Business Operations, and Business Systems to align priorities, govern execution, and provide the platforms and insights that enable the CIO organisation to deliver outcomes at scale.
In this role, you will lead a team of project managers and personally own the delivery of high-impact programs that span multiple business domains and technologies bringing both people leadership and hands-on execution to the table. Operating at the intersection of technology strategy and operational delivery, you will work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, driving complex, cross-functional initiatives from conception through to completion. This is a high-visibility position for someone with strong leadership judgement, rigorous program discipline, and the ability to navigate ambiguity at pace.
In this opportunity as Senior Manager, Program Management, you will:
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of project managers, fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement. Including conducting regular performance reviews and creating tailored development plans that support each team member's career progression.
Translate business strategy into actionable program plans, managing scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and benefits realisation. Lead strategic programmes from initiation through execution, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and measurable outcomes.
Maintain governance structures, operating rhythms, PMO standards, tooling, and methodologies to ensure consistency and rigour across the portfolio.
Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies that could impact programme delivery, providing thought leadership to navigate complexity and ensure successful outcomes.
Drive cross-functional collaboration across a wide range of business functions, engaging stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment and successful program execution.
Serve as the primary point of accountability for senior stakeholders, providing clear, timely status reporting and maintaining strong communication throughout the program lifecycle.
Stay current with industry trends and develop strong knowledge of the functional areas intersecting the Program Management role, employing the appropriate tools and processes to drive continuous improvement.
About You
You’re a fit for this role if your background includes:
Proven experience leading and developing teams of project or program managers, with a track record of building high-performing, accountable teams and supporting individual career growth.
Extensive program management experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple business domains and technologies with strong command of scope, timeline, budget, and risk management disciplines.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to operate at senior leadership level, navigate ambiguity, and provide clear, transparent reporting to diverse audiences.
A strategic mindset paired with hands-on execution you're equally comfortable shaping governance frameworks and PMO standards as you are rolling up your sleeves to drive delivery at pace.
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
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Thomson Reuters (TSX/NDAQ: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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