Director, Corporate Strategy

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Sun Life Full time

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

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

**Responsibilities**:
Annual strategic planning
- Manage the planning process and provide support/coordination to Business Groups and Corporate Functions (e.g. Finance, IT, HR) to develop and deliver their strategic plans
- Provide perspectives, strategic frameworks, and analysis support to help BGs and functions advance thinking on focus topics
- Contribute to development of the Enterprise Strategic Plan by owning analyses, communications, and content development of specific components
- Ensure enterprise alignment of strategic plans across BGs by drawing linkages across common themes

Strategy design and development
- Translate ambiguous strategic issues into clearly defined problem statements
- Decompose problem statements into a set of hypotheses and validating these by performing both quantitative (e.g., financial analysis, market sizing, analytics) and qualitative analyses (e.g., competitor benchmarking and case studies, sourcing and synthesizing expert perspectives)
- Bring new perspectives, creative ideas, and practical approaches to problems and issues
- Develop and execute analysis plan, including identifying and gathering relevant data and information from both internal (e.g. Finance, Business Units) and external sources (e.g. industry research reports, news articles, competitor data) for analyses
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative analytical results to guide recommendations and inform strategic decision making
- Communicate findings and recommendations succinctly in a logical and coherent storyline that facilitates productive discussion and decision making among senior executives

Strategy project delivery
- Define scope, design approach, and develop plan for strategy projects
- Execute project plan and lead work streams, adapting and reprioritizing as necessary to meet project objectives while ensuring timely delivery and achievable scope
- Manage coordination of project delivery across team members (from Corporate Strategy team and from BGs/Functions)
- Prepare and present both formal and informal updates on analysis/recommendations for senior management
- Present results and facilitate discussions on findings and next steps, including implementing recommendations as appropriate

Competitive and market awareness and intelligence
- Actively build and maintain awareness of market trends and developments through various sources (e.g., secondary research, competitor actions, industry developments)
- Curate external market information, translate into relevant insights and surface patterns/themes that are relevant for Sun Life
- Identify implications for Sun Life and proactively communicate/share with appropriate stakeholders

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

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