AVP, CXO Strategy & Transformation

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Reporting to the Vice-President, Experience, Planning and Transformation, CXO, the AVP, CXO Strategy & Transformation will help drive the development and stewardship of an integrated CXO vision and Client platform strategy and execution within CXO and across SL Canada. This role will act as a senior strategic integrator across the CXO mandate—bringing together strategy, transformation, performance reporting, analytics, to tell a cohesive story.

The successful candidate will help build insights discipline, and change capability required to simplify how CXO works, sharpen decision-making, and ensure investments are clearly linked to client, advisor, sponsor, business, risk, and financial outcomes. The role requires a strong mix of strategic thinking, business management, financial and analytical acumen, executive-level communication and pragmatic execution. The candidate will be expected to work closely with CXO leadership, Canadian business partners, Finance, Technology, and Global partners, and senior stakeholders to develop a cohesive CXO-wide narrative, strengthen performance management, programmatically manage spend and priorities, and ensure the function is operating with appropriate risk, auditability, and governance standards.

This is a high-impact role for a proven strategy and transformation leader who can connect the dots across complex domains, turn data into insight, create structure from ambiguity, and help move a large, multi-disciplinary function from reporting activity to driving measurable action.

• Shape and steward the Client Experience Office strategy and transformation agenda, connecting priorities across client experience, engagement, digital, marketing, data and business partners.
• Build the transformation capability and operating disciplines needed to move strategy into execution, including governance, prioritization, metrics, decision forums and management routines.
• Lead an insight-driven performance approach, partnering with Data and Finance to connect business, client, financial, operational and risk information to executive decision-making.
• Modernize performance management and executive reporting, creating monthly and quarterly business reviews that clearly connect strategy, investments, initiatives, outcomes, risks, dependencies and decisions.
• Guide portfolio and investment prioritization, helping ensure resources and spend are aligned to strategic priorities, client and business outcomes, sales enablement and risk reduction.
• Develop executive-level strategic narratives and recommendations for senior leadership and Board-level audiences, simplifying complex issues and clearly articulating progress, trade-offs, risks and required decisions.
• Advance the…