Manager, Strategic Climate Initiatives

3 weeks ago

Vancouver, 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.

**Location: REMOTE opportunity**

We are looking for someone to join our enterprise Climate Change and Environmental Impact team to support climate strategy implementation, working directly with the Director of Climate and Environment Strategy. At Sun Life, our Purpose is to help our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our focus on sustainability helps us bring this Purpose to life and is central to our business strategy.

Our climate and environment team acts as a central resource to the enterprise, managing climate strategy development and implementation in collaboration with all of Sun Life’s business groups and functions. This includes partnering with teams across the business to define climate-related goals and develop roadmaps to achieving those goals, bringing together key considerations such as climate-related risks and opportunities, data-based decisions, best practice and benchmarking, and more. The Climate Strategy team drives integration of these climate practices across core business processes, supporting implementation and achievement of the enterprise climate strategy. Championing the team’s efforts is a network of sustainability representatives from across the business units and regions in which we operate.

**What you will do**:

- Engage with key stakeholders across the enterprise to identify and embed decarbonization efforts into each business’ through the development of tailored decarbonization roadmaps
- Provide strategic support in the establishment of new processes to develop metrics and report on climate progress against plans
- Drive the coordination of climate-related strategies across the enterprise, ensuring comprehensiveness and cohesiveness of the overall climate strategy at Sun Life
- Collaborate with business group partners and sustainability and climate workstream leads to coordinate and lead responses to internal and external requests
- Create and support the review of enterprise-wide climate-related communication materials, including internal communications and external disclosures
- Support the team with evolving climate-related deliverables and projects as required

**What you will need to succeed**:

- Relevant degree in environmental science, sustainability, or related area of study
- Minimum five years' experience in a sustainability role; financial services experience is an asset
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in climate change and environmental sustainability including strategy development and reporting
- Excellent research, analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong ability to assimilate complex climate-related issues and distill into succinct points relevant to the organization.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated strength in project management and ability to coordinate and organize internal and external stakeholders
- Well-organized and self-motivated, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and tight deadlines, both independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships with colleagues and achieve outcomes through influence and collaboration

**What's in it for you?**
- Being a member of the Sun Life family, a group of people united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
- Pension Plan participation starts immediately, and you are automatically enrolled. We help you save more with Sun Life automatic and matching contributions and by including both your salary and bonus when making
contributions
- Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
- We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2023 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada
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At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Salary Range**:
76,000/76 000 - 125,000/125 000

**Job Category**:
Sustainability

**Posting End Date**:
05/04/2024

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