Vice President, Strategy

Your Role in Supporting Our Members

As a Vice President, Strategy, you are responsible for shaping and delivering strategy in service of Vancity’s vision and values. You will ensure that enterprise strategy efforts centre member needs, advance financial sustainability and business objectives, and deepen and scale impact.

You will provide enterprise leadership across Enterprise Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Innovation, and Government Relations & Policy Engagement, working closely with the Executive Leadership Team, Board, and external partners to translate strategy into action.

• Leading the development and annual refresh of the enterprise strategy and business plan, as guided by Vancity’s vision and values.
• Monitoring the external environment and keeping a pulse on economic, industry, social and environmental trends to identify opportunities.
• Guiding the translation of strategy into enterprise scorecards, KPIs and performance frameworks that reflect both financial and non‑financial outcomes.
• Monitoring progress and supporting the enterprise governance of progress against strategic priorities, identifying risks, trade‑offs and opportunities for course correction.

• Setting and implementing strategic direction for mergers, acquisitions and partnership opportunities aligned with Vancity’s enterprise strategy, growth objectives and impact priorities.
• Overseeing the development and advancement of Vancity’s pipeline of evaluated opportunities, ensuring disciplined assessment of strategic fit, impact, risk and value creation.
• Guiding end‑to‑end M&A strategy and tactics, including opportunity identification, cultivation, due diligence, valuation, decision frameworks and deal closing.
• Partnering with Finance, Legal, Risk, Impact and Business Lines to ensure transactions are rigorously evaluated and effectively governed.
• Supporting post‑transaction integration planning to realise intended strategic, financial and impact outcomes.

• Overseeing priority innovation portfolios and initiatives that advance strategic objectives, improve member experience and further impact priorities.
• Stewarding enterprise capability in innovation practices, tools and ways of working, fostering experimentation, learning and disciplined delivery.
• Enabling cross‑functional collaboration to move ideas from concept to implementation, scaling those with demonstrated value and impact.
• Ensuring innovation investments are aligned with strategy, resourced appropriately and governed with clear success measures.
• Supporting the growth and development of Vancity’s presence as a leader in innovation.

• Guiding and stewarding Vancity’s enterprise government relations and public policy agenda, aligning advocacy priorities with enterprise strategy, cooperative principles and long‑term community impact objectives.
• Serving as a senior executive voice in engagements with federal, provincial and municipal governments, including Ministers, political staff, senior public servants and Crown agencies.
• Integrating public policy intelligence and environmental scanning into enterprise strategy, identifying emerging legislative, regulatory and political trends that present risks or opportunities.
• Guiding the development of evidence‑based policy positions, advocacy briefs and submissions that advance priorities.
• Overseeing the measurement and reporting of government relations outcomes, demonstrating strategic influence, policy impact and alignment with enterprise goals.

• Serving as a trusted advisor to the CSO and executive leadership team on all four departmental areas.
• Supporting the CSO in planning for and facilitating executive and Board strategy forums and discussions, ensuring priority topics are surfaced and outputs are integrated into strategy and planning.
• Ensuring the preparation of clear, compelling materials for the Board and Board Committees related to all four departmental areas.
• Representing Vancity in sector, community and strategic forums as appropriate.
• Building and leading high‑performing teams across all four areas of oversight.
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