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Senior Project Manager 
Job Location - Remote with with flexibility to travel as required
Employment Type - Full Time Permanent
Hours - 40 hours per week
Salary - $120,000-130,000 CAD annually

A LITTLE ABOUT US

Aurora is proud to be a global leader in the cannabis industry. With a smart strategy, unmatched talent and focus on our long-term success, we believe we have a bright future. 

At Aurora, we're passionate about helping patients improve their lives through high-quality premium medical cannabis under brands they can trust and rely on. Our products, available across Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, include leading brands like Pedanios, IndiMed, San Raf, Tasty's, Whistler, Greybeard and CraftPlant. 

Our diverse team works passionately across various roles, from manufacturing to corporate positions, and many more, united by our purpose: Opening the World to Cannabis. Enabled by science and empowered by people, for patients and consumers.  We collaborate globally, embrace change with courage, stay agile, and treat everyone with compassion. We live our values daily, making a meaningful impact on patients, communities, and our A-Team.

Job Summary:

The Senior Project Manager, PMO is responsible for leading and delivering complex cross-functional projects and strategic programs from initiation through to successful implementation and closure. This role partners closely with senior leadership and key stakeholders across the organization to drive strategic initiatives, operational improvements, organizational change, and business transformation efforts.

The Senior Project Manager will play a key role within the PMO by ensuring strong project governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and consistent execution practices across multiple concurrent initiatives. 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to develop, define, prioritize, and execute strategic initiatives and enterprise-wide programs
• Lead the full project lifecycle for complex operational and strategic initiatives, including scope development, planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, and project closure
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, resource plans, risk registers, communication plans, and governance structures
• Facilitate collaboration across multiple departments to ensure alignment on priorities, deliverables, timelines, and business objectives
• Proactively identify project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints, while developing mitigation and contingency plans
• Drive accountability across project teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of initiatives
• Ensure adherence to PMO standards, governance frameworks, documentation requirements, tools, and project management best practices
• Prepare and present executive-level project updates, metrics, and status reports to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Support organizational change management efforts by driving stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and adoption strategies
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and maturity of PMO processes, methodologies, templates, and reporting practices
• Support prioritization and portfolio planning activities across the PMO, as required

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills across all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale, cross-functional projects in fast-paced and evolving environments
• Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to balance high-level business objectives and tactical execution
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, ambiguity, and changing business needs
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, budgeting, resource planning, and project delivery methodologies
• Experience driving organizational change and influencing stakeholders through complex initiatives
• Exceptional verbal, written, presentation, and executive communication skills
• High degree of professionalism, accountability, and business acumen
• Demonstrated creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement mindset
• Knowledge of the cannabis industry or other highly regulated industries is considered an asset

Education and Experience: 

• 8-10+ years of progressive experience in project and/or program management roles
• Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-wide, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience managing and operating within a formal PMO framework and governance structure
• PMP certification or equivalent project management designation preferred
• Experience with organizational change management methodologies considered a strong asset
• Experience within manufacturing, operations, pharmaceutical, CPG, or regulated industries is considered an asset
• Expeirence with MS Project (and all other MS applications), Smartsheet, Lucidchart
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field preferred

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT AURORA

Our people are at the heart of everything we do here at Aurora, and we take pride in fostering an inclusive space that inspires our team to love where they work! From rewarding career opportunities to flexible work environments to team activities, we go above and beyond to prioritize your success and here's how we do it...

Flexibility: you will enjoy a flexible work environment that is the perfect blend of work and fun! With flexible working hours to compressed work weeks to paid sick and vacation time, you will be empowered to achieve work-life balance.

Total Rewards: we will motivate you to go above and beyond with a competitive hourly wage (with shift premiums), stock options, an RRSP program, annual bonuses, and a health and personal care spending account for you to use for gym memberships, ski-trips or staycations.

benefits: we will foster your health and wellness (and your dependents) with our employee benefits package including, employer-paid health and dentalcare premiums, life insurance and LTD policies and a medical cannabis coverage program, designed exclusively for our A-Team, that will provide you with $1,500 of coverage each year (because we truly believe cannabis is the best medicine). 

Life-Long Learning: we're lifelong learners here at Aurora and will invest in your professional development throughout all aspects of your career! You will have access to a tuition assistance program, virtual learning activities and annual performance reviews, to ensure you are provided with the toolkit and support you need to succeed.

Perks: we love to celebrate our people by providing corporate perks including employee discounts, perkopolis memberships, company SWAG, paid volunteer time, modern technology and free snacks and beverages at all our office locations.

Team: we are a diverse and global team of cannabis enthusiasts, energetic innovators, fitness gurus, caring parents, foodies and more, with a collective passion to nurture an inclusive environment that helps you grow and provide people better days with medical cannabis.

Next steps

Apply today by submitting your resume through our website. Apply today by submitting your resume through our website. You can expect your application to be reviewed by our Talent Acquisition Team and not an AI software/system.  The we will contact you if we see a fit via email.
Think you're the ideal candidate but you don't meet all the requirements? Apply anyways. We would love to review your application to see if you're the right fit or find you an alternative opportunity.  Not the role for you? Share this posting with your network while subscribing to our Talent Community to learn more about upcoming opportunities (hot tip: if you are an Aurora employee, take advantage of the employee referral program by sharing this posting with someone in your network! If they are the successful candidate, you may be eligible for a bonus!).  

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Accessibility

At Aurora, we are proud to foster and celebrate a diverse community of professionals! We take pride in nurturing an inclusive culture that empowers our people to be their authentic selves, celebrate their differences and love where they work.

Our diverse community combined with our inclusive culture, is what sets us apart in the industry and equips our A-Team with superpowers - and this is why, we encourage all candidates to apply for job opportunities regardless of race, national origin, colour, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital and family status, disability, or any other identifying characteristic.

We value the unique skills and experience each person brings to Aurora and are committed to creating and maintaining an accessible environment. We are committed to the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act so if you require accommodation during the hiring process, please let our Human Resources team know by contacting us at hr.services@auroramj.com