AVP, HRBP Enterprise Functions – Global Finance

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. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

As AVP, HRBP Enterprise Functions - Global Finance you will recommend and execute innovative people and culture strategies that add business value by addressing business opportunities and challenges, driving achievement of Sun Life’s purpose. You will act as a trusted advisor and deliver HR programs, insights, and guidance to drive business and HR outcomes with impact across Global Finance. Brings pragmatic, data-driven perspectives and solutions-orientation to initiatives and outcomes and participation as a member of Finance Function and HR leadership teams. Leads, inspires, and develops BOLDER HR professionals operating in a team environment that embodies our values.

What will you do:

Strategic Partnership: Collaborates with leadership to develop business strategies and align people strategies to drive organizational success. Articulates annual SMART goals and outcomes the team can deliver to drive achievement of business objectives. Challenges the status quo, including with focus on speed of decision making and digital, innovative thinking. Seeks to understand business/function opportunities and obstacles and strives to be just in front of the business to nudge and facilitate related people & talent changes. Supports prioritization and makes decisions to focus on highest impact work, including identifying work that (whilst potentially a good idea) is not a current priority. Drives achievement of ambitious goals through test & learn, measurement, refinement, and holding others accountable, as needed.

Trusted Advisor: Partners directly with senior executives to provide coaching, consulting, solutions and constructive challenge, where appropriate. Builds strong, open relationships. Provides proactive advice using data, insights and analytics, creating a compelling business case to inform business and talent decision making now and for the future. Coaches team members to build trusted advisor capability with leaders and teams.

HR Delivery and Outcomes: Helps shape and lead execution of strategic people initiatives, which may include transformation, culture management, change management, and organizational effectiveness. Engages and co-creates solutions with HR colleagues (Centres of Expertise, People Services and HRBPs) to solve business issues and optimize the employee experience. Builds knowledge of HR, technology and industry trends to advance employee capability, develop and attract talent for the future. Ensures effective organization and work design, strategic workforce plans including supporting strategies to build a robust leadership pipeline, and actions for an inclusive, inspired workforce with confidence in their careers at Sun Life. Encourages performance excellence, providing honest, actionable, and timely feedback as well as recognition. Leads delivery of key HR initiatives and programs in Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Succession, Engagement, Performance, and Compensation and ensures effective governance.

Transformation and Digital Innovation: Embraces and promotes the use of technology, including AI and digital tools, to enhance HR processes, employee experience, productivity, and careers. Fosters a digital mindset and supports the development of digital skills across the organization.

People Leadership: Leads and inspires a BOLDER, winning team with the mindset, expertise, and capability to achieve our People & Culture strategy, including developing great leaders. Provides context for goals and how the work of the team aligns to and supports achievement of Sun Life’s Purpose, Ambition, and strategies. Promotes team adaptability, resilience, and a psychologically safe work environment. Cultivates a development culture with direct feedback, coaching, opportunities to cross and up skill, and gain stretch opportunities, in which performance concerns are addressed directly and promptly. Models and sets expectations for talent scouting and desire to build the best HR team. Showcases team talent and work.

What do you need to succeed:

• Relevant HR leadership experience supporting large enterprise group functions
• Mindset: Possesses a learning and growth mindset with willingness to challenge the status quo, try new things, test & learn and empower others to do the same, innovate and find new solutions that solve business problems or create business value.
• Data and Measurement Focus: Grounds decisions in facts, leverages data to generate new insights and opportunities, clearly defines and measures business outcomes to identify course corrections and measure success. Informs strategies and decisions through knowledge of current external research and trends. Encourages action based on best data available versus defaulting to comprehensive analyses.
• Relationship Management: Builds connections across functions and geographies, partners to validate priorities and desired business outcomes, collaborates, influences and co-creates to develop solutions, and supports a safe environment where people can be themselves and deliver their best. Listens, seeks to understand different perspectives and is confident in communicating, influencing, and coaching Employees and Leaders.
• Talent Development Orientation: Focuses on empowering people through clear accountabilities, goals, and decision-making rights, and developing by coaching, continuous feedback, and sharing expertise. Builds the team and pipeline for future success including identifying opportunities to expose team members to new experiences and skill building. Encourages behaviours and actions that promote well-being and resilience.
• Expertise: Broad, cross-functional HR expertise, including coaching senior leaders. May be coupled with an HR functional specialty. Deep understanding of HR programs and impact on employee and business outcomes.
• Delivery: Ability to engage and influence stakeholders including navigating in a matrix organization, manage, adapt, and pivot through ambiguity and change, address challenges and meet timelines. Experience working in digital or agile environments is an asset.
• Executive-level Presentation Skills: Ability to independently shape, produce, and deliver ideas, presentations, and documents tailored to Executive audiences and develop others to do so as well.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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