Director, Change Management; Canadian Operations

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our

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.

Sun Life Canada is accelerating a bold transformation to deliver on our purpose: to help Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

Canadian Operations is at the heart of that ambition—bringing together over 5,000 team members across Canada and SL Global Solutions in Asia to deliver critical onboarding, processing, and service experiences. We enable more than 130 million interactions annually, shaping how Clients, plan sponsors, and advisors experience Sun Life every day.

Reporting to the AVP, Transformation & Key Initiatives, the Director, Change Management will build and lead a world-class, enterprise change capability—shifting from fragmented, project-based execution to a strategic, integrated discipline that accelerates transformation outcomes across Canadian Operations.

This is not a traditional change role. You will architect and embed a leading-edge change management function, influence senior leadership, and drive enterprise-wide adoption across a complex transformation portfolio.

• Define and stand up a centralized Change Management function, including operating model, governance, frameworks, and standards that scale across Canadian Operations
• Position Change Management as a strategic enabler of transformation outcomes, embedded from strategy through execution
• Build an integrated, enterprise approach that ensures consistency, speed, and measurable impact

• Drive change across a highly complex, multi-year portfolio spanning technology, process, and business transformation
• Orchestrate enterprise-wide alignment, prioritization, and management of cross-functional impacts and dependencies
• Ensure change strategies are data-driven, outcomes-focused, and tightly linked to business value realization

• Embed rigorous practices to measure readiness, adoption, and sustained behavioral change
• Define and operationalize clear success metrics tied to business outcomes (e.g., productivity, experience, risk reduction)
• Hold leaders accountable for visible sponsorship, engagement, and results

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives, shaping how change is sponsored, communicated, and sustained
• Elevate leadership capability in change to create a culture that embraces and accelerates transformation

• Develop, and lead a team of top-tier change practitioners operating in a consulting model
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and external best-practice adoption
• Establish repeatable, scalable tools and methodologies that position Sun Life at the forefront of change excellence

• Integrate change management into strategy development, portfolio governance, and delivery life cycles
• Ensure early engagement and seamless alignment across strategy, product, technology, and operations

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise change management, transformation, or organizational…