Programs Manager Jobs in Laval, QC (NOW HIRING)

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Reporting to the Director, Airport Strategy and Development, this role provides centralized program management for airport development matters, supporting a high volume, multi hub portfolio of airport authority engagements and initiatives. It establishes a single source of truth for commitments, risks, and activities, while enabling disciplined governance, tracking, and follow through. The role ensures timely, decision ready escalation and acts as a key integrator across airport authorities, internal stakeholders, and senior leadership to enhance alignment, execution reliability, and external credibility.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for all airport authority engagements, initiatives, risks, and commitments
• Coordinate and schedule recurring engagement meetings with airport authorities and internal stakeholders within a prescribed governance model. Active participant in such meetings.
• Maintain a consolidated view of hub level initiatives, ensuring alignment across major airports
• Track actions, decisions, commitments, and dependencies across multiple airports and workstreams
• Monitor progress and ensure disciplined follow through between meetings and governance forums
• Proactively identify and flag risks or issues requiring executive attention
• Support decision ready escalation, providing structured and concise inputs to leadership
• Develop and maintain integrated reporting tools and dashboards for portfolio visibility
• Ensure consistency in messaging and stakeholder alignment across engagements
• Act as a central coordination point within the branch, internal partners, and leadership
• Support preparation of briefing materials and executive updates
• Drive process discipline and standardization in how airport engagements are tracked and managed
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, transparency, and coordination across the function
• Support integration of external program management support (if applicable)
• Contribute to strengthening governance cadence and operating model maturity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, planning, or related field
• 5-8+ years of experience in program management, general management consulting, strategy, operations, or infrastructure-related roles
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder portfolios and governance forums, with strong capabilities in coordination, executive reporting, and disciplined execution.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (bilingual French and English required)
• High level communication skills and proficiency in PowerPoint
• Strong analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to drive structure, governance, and execution discipline
• Ability to operate effectively with senior leadership and external stakeholders
• Airline industry experience an asset
• Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

Conditions of Employment:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.

Linguistic Requirements

Bilingual (English and French)

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.