Job Description
:The Corporate Strategy 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, and is responsible for actively monitoring and analyzing external trends shaping the markets in which Sun Life operates.
The Corporate Strategy team works in a dynamic and collaborative team-based environment. Team members work on many of Sun Life’s most interesting and challenging problems, with 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 Vice-President Corporate Strategy, the successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end design and delivery of strategy projects, delivery of the annual strategic plan, and identifying, monitoring, and evaluating macro market trends, with an emphasis on developments in digital, fintech, insurtech, and healthtech. The AVP, Corporate Strategy is expected to apply problem-solving and analytical capabilities, strategic thinking and insight generation, and effective communications and relationship management.
They are expected to develop, oversee, and mentor members of a high-performing strategy team, and should be highly independent in their ability to execute strategy projects and manage senior stakeholder relationships.
What will you do?
Annual strategic planning
Manage the planning process and provide support/coordination to Business Groups and functions (e.g. Finance, IT, HR) to develop and deliver their strategic plans
Facilitate working sessions with senior executives to further strategy development
Work collaboratively with top executives to develop the Enterprise Strategic Plan, owning analyses, communications, and content development
Provide perspectives, strategic frameworks, and analysis support to help Business Groups and functions advance thinking on focus topics
Ensure enterprise alignment of strategic plans across Business Groups by drawing linkages across common themes
Strategy design and development
Translate ambiguous strategic issues into clearly defined problem statements, hypotheses, and corresponding analyses
Define scope, design approach, and develop work plan for strategy projects
Execute project plan and manage across multiple work streams, adapting and reprioritizing as necessary to meet project objectives while ensuring timely delivery and achievable scope
Manage project delivery across multiple team members (from Corporate Strategy team and partners in Business Groups/functions)
Bring new perspectives, creative ideas, and practical approaches to problems and issues
Synthesize qualitative and quantitative analytical results to guide recommendations and inform strategic decision making
Prepare and present both formal and informal updates on analysis/recommendations for senior executives
Communicate findings and recommendations succinctly in a logical and coherent storyline that facilitates productive discussion and decision making among senior executives
Manage a diverse set of stakeholders at all levels of the organization to ensure effective collaboration in support for recommendations
Competitive and market awareness and intelligence
Actively build and maintain awareness of market trends and developments through various sources (e.g., secondary research, competitor actions, industry developments, industry network)
Curate external market information, translate into relevant insights and surface patterns/themes that are relevant for Sun Life
Maintain a keen awareness of developments in digital, data and analytics as it…
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