Strategy Consultant

2 weeks ago


Waterloo, 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.

Digital Business Automation Services (DBAS) is looking for a Strategy Consultant to help managing the strategic planning and ongoing reporting on progress.

DBAS is part of Core IT and reports into the Chief Technology Office. They own and manage a group of automation platforms supporting business areas across Sun Life. These automation technologies include Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Low Code Application Platforms (LCAP), Process Mining, Document and Form Generation, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and Content Management. To successfully align our efforts with business aspirations, we need to adopt a strategic approach to our planning and delivery.

The Strategy Consultant will report directly to the Assistant Vice President of the department and will help facilitating the annual strategic planning cycle. The strategic plan is a mechanism to govern the team’s overall performance, and it ensures alignment to the parent organization’s direction, priorities, and objectives. It also helps imbedding high performance culture and driving to achieving business outcomes.

**What will you do?**

**_ Strategic planning cycle _**

Coordinate strategic planning cycle for the DBAS team, which will involve:

- Work with the team leaders to identify the top priorities for the team
- Understand business goals and objectives and determine how DBAS’ objectives should align
- Collect technology renewal, growth and innovation initiatives and map these initiatives out to the appropriate objectives
- Assemble a three-year roadmap in collaboration with the architects and the platform owners
- Facilitate the process to develop the OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for the DBAS team, in collaboration with the leaders of the area and other partners within the cross functional teams
- Document the team’s annual objectives and disseminate this information to the team members

**_ Program updates and communication _**
- Develop executive ready reports, outcome based, and focused on achievements to communicate progress towards OKRs
- Contribute to the CIO and CTO regular reports with input from the DBAS team
- Communicate internally and externally using various forms of material
- Perform research on industry and competitive trends to support development of strategic roadmaps
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of running the business of IT departments and enterprise platforms
- Develop presentation material to aid in conducting regular touchpoints with internal and external stakeholders
- Participate in development rich media (animation videos, etc.) to explain and showcase some hyper-automation use cases and solutions

**What do you need to succeed?**
- 2+ years IT experience preferably with a degree in management information systems, business administration or related technology or business degree/diploma
- 2+ years relevant work experience with a strategy consulting firm, corporate strategy department, planning and allocation department, or similar background on a cross functional IT organization
- Ability to collect input and insights through conversations and interviews and turning these into executive-ready material
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with management and other stakeholders while also connecting with peers and influencing without authority
- Ample amount of creativity and ability to think outside of the box
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to handle several tasks efficiently
- Self-starter, comfortable working independently and within teams

**What will be nice to have?**
- Project management and business analysis skills
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Demonstrated leadership potential and the ability to work well in a team in pressured situations

**What’s in it for you?**
- A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture
- An environment of continuous learning and improvement
- 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
- We’re proud to be a **Best Workplace for Hybrid Work** by Great Place to Work® Canada

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