Digital Transformation Project Manager

The Project Manager within CCS Business Operations drives the planning governance and execution of strategic projects and operating initiatives across CCS. The role provides structured project controls executive-level communication and disciplined follow-through to help executive leadership maintain visibility alignment and momentum across the position partners across Solutions Architects GCUs Engineering Sales Finance Supply Chain and other functions to establish clear objectives ownership milestones dependenciesrisks and measures of addition to core project-management responsibilities therole will accelerate practical AI adoption across the business and lead the evaluation implementation and adoption of project-management and collaboration tools that improve transparency efficiency decision-making and business outcomes.

Project Planning Governance and Delivery

Translate strategic priorities into structured project plans with clear scope milestones deliverables dependencies owners and success metrics.

Coordinate cross-functional execution across CCS Business Operations and partner teams.

Track progress against schedule resources risks dependencies and commitments.

Establish fit-for-purpose governance including operating cadence status reporting decision forums and change control.

Identify emerging risks/issues and drive mitigation escalation and resolution with key stakeholders.

Support project initiation (business case outcomes scope) and formal closeout (lessons learned handoffs documentation).

Project Management and Executive Operating Support

Support the Vice President in prioritizing managing and coordinating CCS Business Operations initiatives.

Maintain a consolidated view of portfolio health risks decisions required and resource considerations.

Prepare concise decision-oriented executive summaries leadership updates and coherent business reporting.

Highlight trade-offs gaps and required interventions to facilitate timely executive decisions.

Manage documentation version control and accessible centralized repositories.

AI Adoption and Business Enablement

Coordinate initiatives to introduce and scale practical AI use cases across CCS Business Operations.

Partner with stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities that boost productivity quality speed and insights.

Develop rollout plans for AI pilots covering use-case definition stakeholder alignment training and value tracking.

Establish adoption metrics and feedback loops to measure usage risks and business impact.

Promote responsible AI adoption in alignment with technology security privacy and legal standards.

Document reusable best practices to enable repeatable AI adoption across the organization.

Project-Management Tool Evaluation and Adoption

Lead structured evaluations of PM collaboration and workflow tools based on business requirements.

Assess usability integration governance security scalability and overall business value.

Coordinate tool pilots and proof-of-concept implementations including configuration training and feedback collection.

Develop implementation and change management plans to drive sustained tool adoption.

Automate manual status collection improve visibility strengthen accountability and speed up decision-making.

Meeting Management and Follow-Through

Schedule and facilitate project meetings with clear agendas pre-reads decision requests and target outcomes.

Capture and promptly distribute decisions action items owners and due dates.

Drive action-item closure escalating unresolved or aging blockers with recommended next steps.

Process Improvement and Project Controls

Establish repeatable PMP-aligned project management practices and controls across CCS Business Operations.

Streamline workflows and information flows using PM automation and AI-enabled tools.

Maintain auditable project records to support decision-making and organizational learning.

Translate lessons learned into continuous process improvements.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Lead through influence in a matrixed geographically distributed environment.

Drive clarity when objectives ownership priorities or timelines shift.

Build productive relationships across project teams functional leaders vendors and external partners.

Foster proactive communication constructive problem-solving accountability and execution excellence.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects initiatives or workstreams in a complex cross-functional environment.
Experience developing project plans schedules governance routines status reports risk and issue registers dependency tracking and executive updates.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate stakeholders manage commitments and drive follow-through without direct authority over all contributors.
Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear concise decision-oriented messages.
Demonstrated experience preparing executive presentations business-review materials meeting content and decision documents.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google Workspace including presentation and spreadsheet applications.
Experience using project-management collaboration workflow automation or AI-enabled platforms.
Ability to manage competing priorities operate effectively with ambiguity and meet time-sensitive deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

PMP CAPM PRINCE2 Agile Scrum or equivalent project-management certification.
Experience supporting senior leaders and managing strategic initiatives.
Experience leading technology implementations tool evaluations process digitization or organizational change and adoption.
Experience identifying piloting implementing or scaling business applications of AI.
Experience in technology electronics data-center infrastructure hardware software manufacturing business operations or solutions development.
Experience working with geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
Familiarity with Celesticas product development customer-engagement business-review or CCS operating processes.

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry using a computer mouse using a calculator etc)

The stated range includes Base Salary and target Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation only. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this range.

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company and may change based on several factors including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting or the credentials experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Salary Range: CAD 109000 - CAD 173000

• Six or more years of relevant experience.

• Bachelors degree in business engineering technology project management or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.