Head, NA Leadership Strategy and Execution

Supports the profitable acquisition and growth of priority customer segments through the development and execution of segment-driven integrated product, cross-channel, sales, marketing and pricing strategies. Supports the sustained growth of Key Performance Indicators (e.g., new customer acquisition targets, share of wallet growth, revenue and earnings, and segment engagement targets) to achieve customer acquisition and revenue growth targets.

• Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
• Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
• Regularly connects work to BMO's purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
• Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
• Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
• Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
• Identifies short- and long-term value creation opportunities for target customer segments.
• Recommends changes to maintain the overall business for the customer segment.
• Designs and drives the customer experience strategy and customer loyalty measures/targets to deliver the desired customer experience.
• Devises multiple actions to position the organization for ongoing growth and contributes to the long‑term business success.
• Addresses and resolves escalated strategic, systemic, or complex issues to retain customer segments.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders for making business decisions and implementing strategic initiatives.
• Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges.
• Networks with industry contacts to gather competitive insights and best practices.
• Recommends measures to improve organizational effectiveness.
• May consult to or serve on various committees and task forces.
• Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.
• Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.
• Develops the business case by identifying needs, analyzing potential options, and assessing expected return on investment.
• Builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.
• Coordinates the management of databases; ensures alignment and integration of data in adherence with data governance standards.
• Develops and applies the framework for databases; oversees database management in adherence with data governance standards.
• Monitors and tracks performance, and addresses any issues.
• Designs and produces regular and ad‑hoc reports, and dashboards.
• Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
• Collaborates across BMO to develop communications strategies and ensure consistency of messaging, in order to positively influence or change behaviour.
• Develops communication processes and protocols that enable and support the delivery of the customer experience across distribution channels.
• Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.
• Contributes to the development of customer experience blueprints for priority customer segments and customer value propositions to identify value‑creation opportunities, such as new tools or services.
• Coordinates streams of work with multiple internal partners (e.g., Product, Marketing, Sales, Pricing, Risk, Technology, Operations) to deliver a seamless customer experience.
• Reviews the customer segments for effectiveness, considers industry trends to recommend and/or implement enhancements.
• Works closely with the…