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.
At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.
When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.
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Job Description:
This is a high-visibility strategy role supporting the SVP, Chief Experience, Digital and AI Officer and Chief Information Officer and the broader leadership team on high-priority questions facing the organization. Reporting to the AVP, Business Insights & Strategic Execution, a strategic and execution partner to the SVP, the Director will work across AI, digital, client experience and technology to frame complex problems, generate insights, develop executive recommendations and help mobilize priority initiatives.
The role offers broad exposure across some of Sunlife Canada’s most important transformation priorities and the opportunity to work closely with senior leaders on issues ranging from emerging AI opportunities and digital and client priorities to strategic investments, organizational effectiveness and transformation. The successful candidate will bring rigorous, hypothesis-driven problem solving, strong business and financial judgment, and exceptional executive communication skills.
Deep technology expertise is not required. We are looking for an exceptional strategist and problem solver who is intellectually curious about AI, digital and technology and able to build fluency quickly.
What will you do?
Strategic problem solving : lead high-priority strategic assignments from problem definition through recommendation and mobilization, structuring ambiguous questions, developing the fact base, evaluating alternatives and helping leadership translate decisions into action.
Analysis and insight : apply consulting-style problem solving, including hypothesis development, market and competitive analysis, benchmarking, financial modeling, scenario analysis and synthesis of internal and external perspectives.
Executive decision support and storytelling : develop crisp, answer-first executive narratives and decision materials that turn complex analysis into clear choices, recommendations, trade-offs and implications.
Cross-functional alignment: partner with leaders across business, technology, finance, risk, data, digital and corporate functions to test perspectives, build alignment and advance priority initiatives.
Mobilization and execution support: translate strategic recommendations into actionable plans, including sequencing, dependencies, measures of success, accountabilities and key executive decisions.
Project leadership : independently manage high-priority assignments or strategic initiatives and provide day-to-day leadership to cross-functional teams contributing to the work, where needed.
What do you need to succeed?
Education & Experience
5+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally spanning management consulting, corporate strategy, and/or strategic planning.
Management consulting or comparable strategy experience is strongly preferred, with demonstrated strength in hypothesis-driven problem solving, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and executive communication.
University degree in business, economics,…