Regional Vice President, Prairies

**Job Description**:
Canada Life is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success. We are looking for a talented and experienced leader to join our executive team.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, the
**Regional Vice President, Prairies** will play an integral role within our growing Independent Distribution team at Canada Life. In this fast-paced, results-driven environment, you will work directly with sales leadership and teams within diverse independent distribution partners (MGAs and National Accounts). You will have a core accountability to identify strategies and create opportunities to accelerate sales growth and deepen strategic partnerships with aligned accounts. You will also work closely with other field leaders and wholesale counterparts to help deliver on the region’s insurance and wealth sales targets in creative ways.

**What you will do**
- Provide leadership and coaching to drive performance and achieve objectives
- Working with leadership inside independent distributors, be the face of the Canada Life brand in the region
- Leadership and direction of the Regional Director, business planning and execution, and relationship management
- Accountable for achieving sales objectives and financial targets, within the region
- Ensure overall national strategy and objectives are executed consistently across their regional scope
- Strengthen Canada Life’s brand affinity with independent distributors
- Contribute to the Independent Distribution strategy
- Work closely with other Independent Distribution field leaders to collaborate and understand top priorities for their regions and deliver on objectives and strategies

**What you will bring**
- 10+ years of financial services experience, including knowledge of life insurance and investments
- Creative thinker, focused on driving the business forward
- Strong field credibility and interpersonal skills to lead through influence, and inspire diverse audiences to accelerate growth
- Appetite and aptitude for continuous learning and development of your leadership skills
- Takes responsibility, accepts challenges and is motivated by results
- Strong public speaking ability and leadership communication level
- Well organized, capable of managing a region and many different situations with the end goal always focused on client and advisor growth
- Effective motivator and catalyst for action
- Bilingual (French or Mandarin) considered an asset

**Be your best at Canada Life

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

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Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.
- Canada Life serves the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations._
- We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee _
- has the opportunity to_
- reach their potential._
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Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted_**.

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