Director, Corporate Strategy - Toronto, Canada - Sun Life

    Sun Life
    Sun Life Toronto, Canada

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    de poste:

    The Corporate Strategy & Enablement Team supports Sun Life in achieving and maintaining a position of sustainable strategic advantage and growth in the long term. It has a broad focus of strategy topics that span all businesses, functions, and geographic markets where Sun Life operates. The team provides support on high priority strategic issues and projects for Sun Life's Executive team, Corporate Functions, and Business Groups (BG), and is responsible for actively monitoring and analyzing external trends shaping the markets in which Sun Life operates.

    What will you do:

    The Corporate Strategy & Enablement team works in a dynamic, collaborative, and collegial team-based environment. Team members are provided with stretch opportunities to work on many of Sun Life's most interesting and challenging problems, exposure to senior executives, and the opportunity to diversify knowledge of Sun Life's businesses and markets. Specifically, the team has four main responsibilities:

  • Run the annual strategic planning process
  • Shape and support strategy design and advancement of strategy execution
  • Support facilitation and planning of Board and Executive Team strategy discussions
  • Monitor external trends and draw linkages to Sun Life's businesses

    • Reporting to the Assistant Vice-President Corporate Strategy & Enablement, the successful candidate will be responsible for strengthening our professional practice standards, enabling best practice sharing, and developing Sun Life specific strategy skills and capabilities through curriculums created for new and experienced strategy practitioners.

    The Director, Corporate Strategy & Enablement - Practice Management is expected to apply problem-solving and analytical capabilities, strategic thinking and insight generation, and effective communications and relationship management. They should be highly independent in their ability to execute strategy projects and manage senior stakeholder relationships.

    Responsibilities:

    Practice Development

  • Support the development of the Practice Management strategy, plan and delivery
  • Partner with HR and BGs to design a framework to strengthen our professional strategy and enablement practice standards globally for training and development
  • Help the structuring, development and documentation of our strategy engagement and delivery methodology and framework and promote knowledge sharing across the practice by coordinating strategy asset collection and structuring, assisting in creation of tools and templates for reusability, etc.
  • Be a key player in creating and launching a program for new and experienced strategy practitioners focused on strengthening Sun Life-specific strategy and enablement skills and capabilities
  • Once the practice is developed, this role will help promote processes to be leveraged, ensure communication and engagement are ingrained in the way we do business and continue to look for ways to improve the process and continuously evolve with the future needs of the organization

    • Communication and relationship management

  • Effectively communicate insights, ideas, and strategies to an executive level audience in a clear, compelling, and concise manner
  • Tailor written and verbal communication based on audience and situation to facilitate productive discussions, foster buy-in, and establish productive working relationships
  • Proactively maintain relationships with stakeholders in BGs and Corporate Functions, to maintain an understanding of new developments in their areas and identify needs for strategy support

    • What do you need to succeed:

  • Deep understanding of at least one of Sun Life's business areas (i.e., asset management, individual life insurance, group benefits, group retirement solutions, wealth management, asset management) and geographic markets (i.e., Canada, US, Asia)
  • Resourceful and rapid learner, able to work across many topics and domains
  • Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders across multiple teams
  • Strong creative and analytical problem solver, with a solid background working with data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, interpreting results, and writing reports/presentations
  • Results-oriented project management skills; well organized, with a high attention to details
  • Able to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment
  • Able to manage junior team members on projects, providing guidance on analysis and coaching on deliverables
  • Minimum of 5 years relevant business experience, ideally within insurance or financial services; experience in or knowledge of Sun Life's businesses would be an asset
  • University degree in business or related discipline; MBA or other relevant advanced degree is an asset
  • Experience analyzing and solving complex business problems
  • Experience at top-tier management consulting firm or equivalent experience in a Corporate setting focused on developing a practice or program/curriculum design is preferred
  • Experience in conducting in-depth secondary research, including collection and synthesis
  • Experience in financial analytics, including using modelling tools and techniques, is an asset

    • What's in it for you:

  • Flexible hybrid work model
  • Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
  • Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
  • A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
  • Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience
  • Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
  • A common sense dress code, where you decide how you dress based on your day
  • The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

    • L'échelle du salaire de base est pour l'emplacement principal du poste affiché. Elle peut varier selon l'emplacement du candidat sélectionné et d'autres facteurs. En plus du salaire de base, les employés admissibles de la Financière Sun Life participent à différents programmes de rémunération incitative, dont le montant octroyé est discrétionnaire et dépend du rendement de l'employé et de la compagnie. Certains postes de vente participent à des programmes de rémunération incitative basés sur les résultats de vente individuels ou de groupe.

    Depuis toujours, la diversité et l'intégration sont au cœur des valeurs de la Financière Sun Life. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifié ayant des points de vue variés et des idées créatives est avantageux pour nos clients, pour les collectivités où nous exerçons nos activités, ainsi que pour nous tous, en tant que collègues. Nous accueillons avec enthousiasme les candidatures de personnes compétentes provenant de tous les horizons.

    Les personnes handicapées ayant besoin de mesures d'adaptation pour présenter leur candidature et celles qui doivent consulter les offres d'emploi sur un support de substitution peuvent envoyer leur demande par courriel à l'adresse ''.

    À la Sun Life, nous voulons créer un environnement de travail flexible où nos employés sont outillés pour donner le meilleur d'eux-mêmes. Nous offrons plusieurs options de travail flexibles selon les exigences du poste et les besoins individuels. N'hésitez pas à en discuter pendant le processus de sélection.

    Nous remercions tous les candidats de l'intérêt manifesté pour ce poste. Nous ne communiquerons qu'avec les personnes qui auront été retenues pour passer une entrevue.

    Échelle salariale:

    110,000/ ,000/180 000

    Catégorie d'emploi :

    Corporate Development & Strategy

    Fin de l'affichage :

    05/05/2024