Manager, Strategy

**The Opportunity**

We are seeking a strategic, customer-centric and results-driven leader to join our team as **Manager, Strategy & Planning**. In this role, you will act as the “glue” of our organization, facilitating executive-level decision-making, guiding strategic thinking, and overseeing corporate planning processes.

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Strategy, Planning & Insights, you will play a pivotal role in shaping WCLC’s future by championing a strategic mindset and enabling leaders to effectively align business strategy with operational and Initiative/Project planning. This position is ideal for a highly skilled facilitator and problem solver with a passion for innovation, collaboration, business planning, and performance management.

**Key Responsibilities**

Strategy Management
- Lead WCLC’s enterprise strategic planning lifecycle, including strategy development, mid-plan reviews, and Board updates.
- Advance the enterprise strategic planning framework and provide expert guidance to divisional and departmental teams when developing sub-strategies.
- Foster a strategic mindset across the organization, ensuring alignment between enterprise strategy and annual operational planning.

Initiative Lifecycle & Corporate Portfolio Management
- Oversee Initiative Governance, working closely with our Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) to ensure a streamlined process from ideation to execution.
- Provide coaching and support to leaders for initiative planning, including training and guidance.
- Facilitate Initiative prioritization sessions with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and ensure corporate portfolio data is current.

Annual Business Planning
- Drive the annual business planning process, ensuring strong engagement and alignment with ELT and organizational leaders.
- Lead the development of the annual corporate business plan and divisional/departmental plans.
- Continuously improve business planning through retrospectives and enhancements.

Resource Capacity Analysis
- Guide and mentor the Resource Capacity Analyst to ensure accurate capture, analysis, and presentation of resourcing data for decision-makers.
- Maintain and continuously improve tools, processes, and methodologies for data-driven problem solving and decision-making.
- Facilitate ELT and Resource Sub-Committee discussions, ensuring integration with divisional and departmental resource planning.

Facilitation & Internal Communication
- Lead monthly Integrated Business Planning Committee (IBPC) meetings and drive ongoing improvements.
- Deliver high-impact, facilitated sessions that enable data-driven problem-solving and decision-making across all organizational levels.

Leadership & Mentorship
- Manage and develop the Resource Capacity Analyst, ensuring workload balance and professional growth.
- Provide mentorship to co-op students, fostering diverse learning experiences.
- Contribute to departmental objectives and budget oversight.

**Qualifications & Competencies**
- Degree in Management or Business, or other related field; MBA preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in a related strategy and planning role, with proven experience facilitating executive-level decision-making, guiding strategic thinking, and overseeing corporate planning processes.
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, engaging presentation delivery, and superior organizational skills.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Expertise in portfolio management, performance reporting, and resource capacity analysis.
- Customer service and results-oriented with a demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a collaborative team.

**Who we are**

You may not have heard of us before, but you’ve almost certainly heard of the products we help bring to players throughout the Prairie Provinces and the North every day; lottery games like LOTTO 6/49, SPORT SELECT, and dozens of instant scratch tickets.

WCLC is the non-profit organization authorized to manage, conduct, and operate lotteries - at retail and online - and other gaming-related activities for the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well as the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We work closely with our provincial partners to bring a first-rate lottery experience to our players and meet their changing needs with new technology and tools.

We know it’s our people that make this possible, which is why we invest in building talented, adaptable, and accountable teams. We’d love to talk to you about how you fit into that.