Director, Corporate Strategy
3 weeks ago
Job Description
:The Corporate Strategy & Enablement Team supports Sun Life in achieving and maintaining a position of sustainable strategic advantage and growth in the long term. It has a broad focus of strategy topics that span all businesses, functions, and geographic markets where Sun Life operates. The team provides support on high priority strategic issues and projects for Sun Life’s Executive team, Corporate Functions, and Business Groups (BG), and is responsible for actively monitoring and analyzing external trends shaping the markets in which Sun Life operates.
What will you do:
The Corporate Strategy & Enablement team works in a dynamic, collaborative, and collegial team-based environment. Team members are provided with stretch opportunities to work on many of Sun Life’s most interesting and challenging problems, exposure to senior executives, and the opportunity to diversify knowledge of Sun Life’s businesses and markets. Specifically, the team has four main responsibilities:
Run the annual strategic planning process
Shape and support strategy design and advancement of strategy execution
Support facilitation and planning of Board and Executive Team strategy discussions
Monitor external trends and draw linkages to Sun Life’s businesses
Reporting to the Assistant Vice-President Corporate Strategy & Enablement, the successful candidate will be responsible for strengthening our professional practice standards, enabling best practice sharing, and developing Sun Life specific strategy skills and capabilities through curriculums created for new and experienced strategy practitioners.
The Director, Corporate Strategy & Enablement - Practice Management is expected to apply problem-solving and analytical capabilities, strategic thinking and insight generation, and effective communications and relationship management. They should be highly independent in their ability to execute strategy projects and manage senior stakeholder relationships.
Responsibilities:
Practice Development
Support the development of the Practice Management strategy, plan and delivery
Partner with HR and BGs to design a framework to strengthen our professional strategy and enablement practice standards globally for training and development
Help the structuring, development and documentation of our strategy engagement and delivery methodology and framework and promote knowledge sharing across the practice by coordinating strategy asset collection and structuring, assisting in creation of tools and templates for reusability, etc.
Be a key player in creating and launching a program for new and experienced strategy practitioners focused on strengthening Sun Life-specific strategy and enablement skills and capabilities
Once the practice is developed, this role will help promote processes to be leveraged, ensure communication and engagement are ingrained in the way we do business and continue to look for ways to improve the process and continuously evolve with the future needs of the organization
Communication and relationship management
Effectively communicate insights, ideas, and strategies to an executive level audience in a clear, compelling, and concise manner
Tailor written and verbal communication based on audience and situation to facilitate productive discussions, foster buy-in, and establish productive working relationships
Proactively maintain relationships with stakeholders in BGs and Corporate Functions, to maintain an understanding of new developments in their areas and identify needs for strategy support
What do you need to succeed:
Deep understanding of at least one of Sun Life’s business areas (i.e., asset management, individual life insurance, group benefits, group retirement solutions, wealth management, asset management) and geographic markets (i.e., Canada, US, Asia)
Resourceful and rapid learner, able to work across many topics and domains
Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
Strong interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders across multiple teams
Strong creative and analytical problem solver, with a solid background working with data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, interpreting results, and writing reports/presentations
Results-oriented project management skills; well organized, with a high attention to details
Able to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment
Able to manage junior team members on projects, providing guidance on analysis and coaching on deliverables
Minimum of 5 years relevant business experience, ideally within insurance or financial services; experience in or knowledge of Sun Life's businesses would be an asset
University degree in business or related discipline; MBA or other relevant advanced degree is an asset
Experience analyzing and solving complex business problems
Experience at top-tier management consulting firm or equivalent experience in a Corporate setting focused on developing a practice or program/curriculum design is preferred
Experience in conducting in-depth secondary research, including collection and synthesis
Experience in financial analytics, including using modelling tools and techniques, is an asset
What’s in it for you:
Flexible hybrid work model
Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience
Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
A common sense dress code, where you decide how you dress based on your day
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
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