Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships

Location: Toronto, ON | Hybrid, minimum 3 days on-site, with occasional GTA travel

Language: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English required

Duration: 18–24 month contract

Altis Recruitment is partnering with a leading Canadian organization with a diverse portfolio of strategic partnerships across financial services, retail, and entertainment to recruit an Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships. This high-impact leadership opportunity is ideal for a confident, commercially minded professional who excels at building executive relationships, delivering business results, and identifying opportunities for growth.

You'll join a collaborative, fast-paced environment where relationships matter, ideas are valued, and leaders are empowered to make decisions. Working closely with senior executives, external partners, and cross-functional teams, you'll strengthen an established partnership portfolio while helping build a more proactive, strategic approach to account management.

• High-impact leadership opportunity with exposure to C-suite executives and major Canadian organizations.
• Opportunity to influence partnership strategy and leave a lasting impact.
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where your expertise and initiative are valued.
• Meaningful people leadership and professional growth.

• You'll oversee a portfolio of strategic partnerships, including financial services, retail, and entertainment, ensuring delivery of contractual commitments, commercial KPIs, and account plans.
• You'll build trusted relationships with senior executives, proactively addressing risks, navigating complex challenges, and identifying growth opportunities.
• You'll identify opportunities to strengthen partner value through customer acquisition, engagement, and integrated commercial initiatives.
• You'll establish proactive account management practices, including executive relationship mapping, performance reviews, and opportunity tracking.
• You'll lead and coach experienced team members, strengthening strategic thinking, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.
• You'll influence business priorities and confidently represent partnership performance, strategic recommendations, and key decisions in executive discussions.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic partnerships, commercial relationship management, or strategic account leadership, with a strong preference for candidates with financial services experience.
• Strong understanding of complex commercial partnerships, customer acquisition, engagement, and business growth.
• Proven experience managing high-value commercial relationships, delivering measurable business outcomes, and influencing VP-level stakeholders.
• Established people leadership experience, including direct people management and leading cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to independently present portfolio performance, strategic recommendations, and business priorities to executive leadership.
• Excellent executive presence, commercial judgment, and strong relationship-building and communication skills.
• Confident, quick-thinking, resilient, and proactive, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities in a hands-on environment.