Program Director

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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. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Group Retirement Services Operations is undertaking a large, complex enterprise transformation involving multiple interdependent business and technology work streams. As Program Director, you will provide program integration and execution leadership, partnering with the Executive Sponsor, Steering Committee, workstream leads, and senior stakeholders to turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

You will establish the governance, integrated planning and execution discipline needed to align teams, manage dependencies, facilitate timely decisions and maintain momentum. This opportunity is well suited to an experienced transformation leader who can create clarity and accountability in a complex, matrixed environment while keeping teams focused on business value.

• Lead integrated execution of a large-scale transformation program spanning multiple projects, work streams, teams and delivery partners.
• Develop and manage the integrated program plan across scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, financials, risks, decisions and business readiness.
• Lead program governance and Steering Committee activities, providing senior leaders with clear visibility into progress, key decisions, risks, dependencies and trade‑offs.
• Partner with business, technology, operations, finance, risk, change management and workstream leaders to align priorities, accountabilities, sequencing and delivery.
• Proactively manage cross-program risks, issues, dependencies and resource constraints, driving resolution and escalating matters requiring senior leadership decisions.
• Own consolidated executive reporting and maintain an integrated view of program outcomes and benefits, partnering with workstream leads and Finance to monitor expected business value.
• Integrate technology delivery, business readiness, change management, operating‑model impacts, implementation, adoption and benefit realization to support successful program outcomes.

• Group retirement business experience or knowledge.
• Significant experience leading large, complex transformation programs involving multiple work streams, delivery teams, dependencies and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated program and project management expertise across integrated planning, financial and resource management, risk and issue management, dependency management, change control and executive reporting.
• Ability to lead governance and facilitate senior‑level decision‑making by translating complex information into clear recommendations, trade‑offs and actions.
• Experience coordinating business and technology leaders in complex, matrixed organizations and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• Ability to anticipate cross‑program impacts, solve…