Manager, Strategy & Planning

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:  Business Management, Strategy & Support

Pay Details:  $91,200 - $136,800 CAD

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Job Description

Support the development of segment specific AI strategies and identify opportunities for value creation.

Support quarterly updates to the Artificial Intelligence House View (TD's enterprise position on a non-traditional risk or emerging risk).

Lead value forecasting and realization for AI use cases and coordinate content for leadership results review cadences.

Support the creation and management of key strategic documents and scorecards including briefings, memos, presentations and other communications for a senior executive audience (SVP/EVP, Senior Executive Team, CEO, Board of Directors).

Lead competitive intelligence by actively monitoring the external landscape, keeping abreast of emerging trends, sharing developments and insights with senior executive audience, and ensuring AI CoE's priorities appropriately reflect changes in the AI landscape.

Contribute to TD's internal and external communications on AI (conferences, press releases, regulatory updates etc.)

Mentor and develop colleagues across the team

Ensure an adherence to Bank's risk culture

Department Overview
Fueled by the vision of being a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Layer 6 is the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) er 6 unites research, engineering, and product teams to quickly translate theory into impactful real-world applications. The Strategy and Operations team is responsible for the Enterprise AI strategy, business planning, external AI partnerships, end-to-end business operations, and driving adoption of AI best practices across the organization.

We accomplish this by focusing on four key pillars:

Strategy & Planning:  We define the Enterprise AI Strategy to help drive key strategic priorities for the enterprise, business segments and corporate functions. We lead the creation and management of key strategic documents and scorecards. We actively monitor the external landscape, keeping abreast of emerging trends, sharing developments and insights with senior executive audience, and ensuring AI CoE's priorities appropriately reflect changes in the AI landscape.

AI Partnerships:  We develop and manage strategic partnerships with external organizations (e.g., Vector Institute, various universities, Cohere etc.) to enhance internal AI capabilities.

Practice Excellence:  We drive the adoption and engagement of AI best practices across the organization including enhancing the capabilities of AI Practitioners within business segments to enable standardized AI use case delivery.

Operations:  We lead business management and end-to-end operations including managing the intake process for new use cases, model monitoring, KPI reporting and the financial plan.

Job Requirements

5+ years of business or strategy experience.

MBA considered an asset. Prior experience or knowledge of AI/ML is considered an asset.

Strong business acumen and a clear understanding of how the bank makes money.

Experience making an impact in cross‑functional groups through influence and by nurturing key relationships at all levels.

Self‑motivated with the ability to work independently and through ambiguity.

Flexible to adapt and manage within a dynamic business environment.

Skills

Critical and strategic thinking skills to support balanced decision making.

Strong analytical skills, with background in working with data and…