Senior Manager, Corporate IT Business Unit

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Director, Business Services, the Senior Manager provides strategic leadership for IT–business partnership, prioritization, and delivery across Corporate functions. The role focuses on elevating business engagement, guiding portfolio planning, and aligning technology direction with enterprise priorities.

As the primary strategic relationship leader for Corporate IT, the Senior Manager builds trusted partnerships with executives and stakeholders, ensuring technology investments, performance, and outcomes directly support Cenovus’ business objectives. This is a highly visible role that plays a critical part in shaping how Corporate functions leverage technology to drive meaningful business results

What you’ll do:

• Lead IT business engagement for Corporate functions to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.

• Set and govern performance metrics and drive continuous improvement across service delivery.

• Manage Corporate IT investment planning and ensure transparent decision‑making with executives.

• Lead option analysis and economic evaluations, shaping business cases that guide multi‑year technology investments.

• Partner with the Strategy & Performance team to shape IT strategy and ensure domain-level architecture aligns with enterprise architecture guidelines throughout its lifecycle.

• Drive prioritization for Corporate IT initiatives, ensuring decisions align with enterprise strategy and capacity.

• Administer the IT Business Unit Operating Budget, including budgeting, forecasting, licensing, maintenance renewals, workforce planning, and software asset management.

• Provide strategic oversight of application portfolios to ensure performance, lifecycle alignment, and value realization.

• Experience navigating complex, multi‑stakeholder environments and shaping technology roadmaps across competing priorities

Who you are:

Minimum Qualifications for the Ideal Candidate:

• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

• 16+ years related experience, with a minimum of 10 years progressive IT leadership experience, including leading leaders and influencing enterprise-level outcomes.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and guide technology strategy.

• Deep expertise in IT business partnership and/or enterprise portfolio planning, with a proven ability to translate business strategy into technology direction.

• Proven track record of leading leaders and building high-performing, collaborative teams.

• Ability to drive alignment and coordination across diverse IT functions.

• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills and executive-level communication capabilities.

• A degree in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Data Science is considered an asset.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT February 15, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.  

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)

• Health & dental benefits

• Substantial mental health coverage

• Life insurance

• Disability benefits

• Employee family assistance

• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings

• Education assistance for additional development

• Opportunities to work on special projects

• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.

• Our values:

  • Protect what matters

  • Do it right

  • Make it better

  • Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).

  • Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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