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Avp Strategy and Enablement, Sun Life Canada

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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.

Sun Life Financial is a leading international financial services organization providing a diverse range of insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individual and corporate Clients. The Canadian Business is Sun Life's largest with over $1B in earnings (~1/3 of all Sun Life Financial globally). We’re a market leader across life, health and wealth in Canadian Individual and Group insurance and wealth.

The Canada Strategy and Enablement Team has a mandate to work with senior executives across the business to develop, and support the enablement of strategies to address opportunities and issues facing the Canadian business. The team leads a portfolio of strategy and transformation projects in partnership with stakeholders from the business, including enabling execution of Sun Life Canada’s top strategic priorities and cross-business initiatives.

**Please note this role requires regular presence at our Toronto One York office.**

**What will you do?**
- Strategic Project Execution - Managing and executing strategic projects, from start to finish, includes project design and scoping, aligning partner expectations, defining the project approach, project management, providing updates, and the timely delivery of project impact
- Problem Solving and Analytics - Conducting or supervising strategic and financial analysis, including employing strategic frameworks, interpreting analytical results, generating insights, overseeing research and synthesis, and writing decks or reports to provide findings and recommendations.
- Enablement of several of Sun Life Canada’s top strategic priorities, which may include facilitating execution of cross-business unit initiatives, executing on M&A and integration, or leading a central accelerator for high priority digital initiatives
- Key contributor to Canada, Business Unit, Enabling Function strategies, including actively raising issues / opportunities and helping to prioritize the key issues.
- Communication and Dissemination - Synthesizing findings, presenting results, and engaging partners in discussion on executing next steps and implementing the recommendations, as appropriate. Preparation and presentation of both formal presentations and informal updates on analysis/recommendations for senior management
- Recruitment, management, development and retention of a high-performing strategy team.

**What do you need to succeed?**
- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation skills, and strong interpersonal skills
- Strong, analytically-anchored problem solving and experience, with a solid background working with data, conducting analysis, interpreting results, and writing reports/presentations
- Strong influencing skills and stakeholder management, including ability to independently interact with / act as thought partner to senior executives, and find areas of mutual benefit
- Experience in financial analytics, including using modelling tools and techniques
- Team player with proven ability to partner across large corporate organizations to achieve outcomes
- Strong results-oriented project management skills; well organized, with a high attention to details
- Extensive background in strategy project delivery and/or delivery of strategic initiatives or M&A
- A love for problem solving
- Able to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgement, and demonstrate resourcefulness and perseverance in solving problems and removing roadblocks
- Minimum of 7-10 years relevant business experience, ideally with some experience in insurance or financial services; experience in/or knowledge of Sun Life’s business would be an asset but not required
- University degree in business or related discipline; an undergraduate in business and/or engineering and/or MBA would be an asset
- 3-5 years in top-tier management consulting (or equivalent experience in a Corporate setting) would be an asset
- Experience in conducting in-depth secondary research, including collection and synthesis; some experience with primary research would be an asset
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selectio