Senior Transformation Project Manager (Future Opportunity)/Gestionnaire de projet principal en transformation (opportunité future)

**Please note that this role is for future opportunities**

Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space (TSX:MDA) is a trusted mission partner to the global space industry. A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure. The MDA Space team of more than 3,400 space experts in Canada, the US and the UK has the knowledge and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an achievable mission – bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that’s been in our DNA since day one. For those who dream big and push boundaries on the ground and in the stars to change the world for the better, we’ll take you there.

Role Summary:

The Senior Transformation Project Manager is accountable for leading complex, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives across multiple business units. This role requires senior-level experience delivering large-scale implementations in highly complex environments, driving alignment across business, operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, and IT stakeholders. The role is responsible for translating strategic objectives into executable roadmaps, elevating processes and system capabilities to industry best practices, and ensuring disciplined execution, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead enterprise-wide end-to-end projects across functions, sites, and business units.
• Align business strategy with operational priorities and program objectives for scalable enterprise processes.
• Build and manage integrated roadmaps covering harmonization, solution design, deployment, change management, and capability enhancement.
• Own program governance: scope, milestones, risks, issues, budget, benefits, and executive reporting.
• Align complex, disparate requirements, decisions, and deployment priorities among business, manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, and IT stakeholders.
• Guide cross-functional teams, vendors, and experts in a matrix environment.
• Embed solutions into operations through adoption, governance, training, and continuous improvement.
• Translate business and regulatory needs into actionable implementation plans.
• Coordinate process design, configuration, data readiness, integration, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
• Ensure capabilities align with enterprise platforms and digital transformation.
• Drive standardization and best practices while balancing business realities.
• Define success metrics and readiness measures for transformation programs.
• Manage delivery risk, dependencies, escalation, and remediation.
• Present concise updates to Steering Committees and senior leadership.
• Focus on business outcomes, adoption, and sustained value post-deployment.

Stakeholder & Change Leadership

• Serve as a trusted transformation partner to senior leaders across business, operations, manufacturing, engineering, and technology functions
• Drive alignment across enterprise leaders with differing priorities, legacy processes, and business unit requirements to achieve common outcomes
• Lead business change activities to ensure stakeholder readiness, process adoption, and sustainable capability uplift across impacted teams
• Influence decision-making, resolve cross-functional conflicts, and drive timely executive escalation in a complex matrixed environment

Special Considerations:

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the Reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP), and be able to obtain higher clearances.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

MDA Space is an equal opportunity employer with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and candidates with respect and dignity. If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process, please let us know.