Senior Manager, Corporate IT Business Unit

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Director, Business Services, the Senior Manager, Corporate IT Business Unit manages business facing IT functions to enable the corporate business units, this includes business engagement, planning, demand management, portfolio architecture, application support and operations.

The Senior Manager will act as a strategic business relationship leader, fostering trusted partnerships with key stakeholders and executives to drive ongoing service enhancements. This role ensures IT remains aligned with and supports corporate business units by managing IT investments, performance, and costs to deliver on Cenovus’ strategic objectives

What you’ll do:

• Lead the team in defining, documenting, and promoting IT procedures, sharing expertise, and establishing protocols and best practices.

• Collaborate with IT senior leadership, managers, and institutional partners to set performance metrics, analyze data, and recommend improvement strategies aligned with business objectives.

• Oversee the IT budget and guide the business in making strategic investments in technology to achieve organizational goals.

• Evaluate options, costs, and economic implications, and develop business cases to address internal client challenges, including preparing documentation for the Investment Committee.

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

• Support prioritization and investment decisions for IT-related business opportunities, working closely with Strategy & Performance on budget input and project initiation.

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

• Ensure effective application management to support IT operations, including adherence to SLAs and vendor performance oversight.

Who you are:

Minimum Qualifications for the Ideal Candidate:

• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

• At least 16 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a management role.

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

• Proven experience in developing investment cases and strategic plans and collaborating with senior leadership.

• Strong background in IT budget management with solid financial acumen.

• Hands-on experience across all phases of IT outsourcing, including RFP, transition, and continual service improvement.

• Experience delivering large-scale projects (e.g., SAP implementations or new service rollouts) is 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 November 4, 2025.

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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