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Sagard

Equity capital provider for midsized firms

Security Project Manager

IT Project ManagementUpdated on Nov 15
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaCA$120k - CA$140kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • The candidate must have 5 to 8 years of experience in project management, program delivery, or PMO roles, with meaningful exposure to cybersecurity, risk, infrastructure, or enterprise technology environments.
  • The candidate must have demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives involving technical teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
  • The candidate must have strong project management fundamentals, including planning, risk and issue management, governance, stakeholder communication, and change control.
  • The candidate must be able to translate security and compliance concepts into clear business-friendly language and actionable project plans.
  • The candidate must have experience supporting security-related initiatives such as control implementation, tool deployment, remediation programs, policy rollouts, or audit-readiness activities.
  • The candidate must have strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a large portfolio of parallel workstreams with competing priorities and shared resources.
  • The candidate must have experience working with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced environment and navigating ambiguity with structure and sound judgment.
  • The candidate must be familiar with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, MS Project, or similar platforms.
  • For positions in Québec, the candidate must be proficient in spoken and written French and English; English is required for regular interaction with colleagues and external partners outside Québec.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of security program projects across governance, ROC, global alignment, and M&A-related workstreams, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and in-scope execution.
  • Develop detailed project plans that include timelines, milestones, dependencies, decision points, and resource allocation across concurrent initiatives.
  • Coordinate delivery of key initiatives, including GRC platform operationalization, DLP rollout, managed application management, secure browser deployment, endpoint policy alignment, vulnerability management program standup, and tooling consolidation.
  • Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, blockers, and interdependencies, driving timely resolution across Security, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders.
  • Ensure technical and process deliverables meet defined quality, compliance, and security expectations, including readiness for frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
  • Translate security requirements, audit findings, and remediation needs into clearly defined scopes, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
  • Apply consistent project management frameworks, tools, and documentation aligned with Digital Solutions and PMO standards.
  • Establish clear project governance, including status reporting, steering cadences, decision logs, escalation paths, and change control.
  • Maintain a unified portfolio view across security workstreams and surface sequencing conflicts, resource constraints, and delivery risks early.
  • Serve as the central point of coordination across Security, IT, external vendors, auditors, and cross-entity stakeholders.
  • Communicate complex security, risk, and compliance topics clearly and structurally for non-technical stakeholders and executive audiences.
  • Support rollout, adoption, and transition planning for security tooling and policy changes while minimizing disruption to users and operations.
  • Coordinate change management for user-facing and operational security changes, including communications, testing, readiness, and handoff to steady-state teams.
  • Provide project coordination support for urgent or elevated security remediation items, structuring and tracking response plans so critical issues continue to move forward.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery practices, playbooks, and operating rhythm across Security, IT, and Digital Solutions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience supporting M&A integration, vendor-led implementations, or initiatives in regulated environments is considered an asset.
  • A project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent is considered an asset.

About the Company

Sagard

Equity capital provider for midsized firms

Sagard is a French investment fund that provides equity capital to support the growth of midsized companies led by ambitious management teams. Based in Paris, Sagard manages about €2.5 billion and has completed 34 deals since 2004 in the industrial and service sectors across France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The firm partners with established industrial families (including the Desmarais family via Power Corporation of Canada) to invest in companies, typically taking equity stakes to back development efforts and strategic goals. Sagard differentiates itself with a long-standing, family-backed platform and a focused regional footprint, relying on a small team of about 10 professionals to source, execute, and support investments. The goal is to help mid-market companies grow and create value for both management teams and investors by providing patient capital and strategic backing.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$166M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2005

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