Senior Consultant, Strategy, Sunlife Health

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JRYou 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.

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* Job Description:

**** Overview
* * Sunlife Health brings together the scale of a mature group benefits business with the pace and innovation of digital health. The Sunlife Health Strategy team focuses on the questions that shape what comes next: where to play, what to build, and how to grow.  As Senior Consultant, you'll take an ambiguous strategic question, turn it into a clear plan of attack, find the answer, and engage senior leaders and decision makers to deliver results.

Additionally, you will run the monthly strategy reporting cycle to monitor progress of our biggest priorities and distribute updates directly to the Health leadership team, and ultimately to the President of Sunlife Canada. You'll report to the Director, Strategy, who will act as your coach and thought partner, and work closely with peers across Sunlife Health teams.  
** What will you do?*
* ** Planning and sharing strategy**:
You’ll help shape and communicate the overall Sunlife Health strategy at key points during the annual planning cycle. This includes:  
* Preparing materials that frame strategic discussions and decisions at leadership offsites
* Developing executive-ready strategy content for presentation to the CEO and the Board
* Building town hall and team materials to cascade the strategy to employees at every level  
** Leading strategy work:
** Most of your time goes into the strategic questions that shape our business. You’ll take each from a vague question to a recommendation leaders act on.
* ** Frame the problem.
** Work out what the real question is, then break a complex or vague problem into specific, answerable questions and testable hypotheses.
* ** Find the evidence.
** Plan how to answer each question. Gather research and data, judge which sources are credible, and build analyses in Excel with sound statistical basics.
* ** Find the insight.
** Separate insight from information. When you see a gap or a pattern, dig until you understand it.
* ** Bring stakeholders along.
** Build trusted relationships with leaders and partners across the business. Learn what each one needs, involve them early, and keep them informed.
* ** Make the case.
** Write concise, structured documents and slides for executive readers, and present them with confidence.
* ** Run the work.
** Plan and deliver work streams on time, and keep your leaders and stakeholders updated on progress without being asked.  
** Running the monthly strategy reporting cycle:
** For the second week of each month, you'll make sure the…