Senior Consultant, Corporate Strategy & Enablement

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:

The Corporate Strategy & Enablement Team’s focus is to support Sun Life in achieving and maintaining a position of sustainable strategic advantage and growth in the long term. It has a broad focus on enterprise topics that span all Business Groups and geographic markets where Sun Life operates.

The Corporate Strategy & Enablement team works in a dynamic and collaborative team-based environment, providing team members stretch opportunities to work on the most challenging and interesting problems, exposure to senior executives and ability to diversify knowledge of Sun Life’s businesses.

The Senior Consultant, Corporate Strategy & Enablement role supports ongoing delivery of internal strategy and the annual strategic planning cycle. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with a focus on supporting strategy and enablement project delivery, engaging senior leaders in the businesses and functions to solve key strategic questions / issues and staying in the forefront of competitor actions / market developments.

What will you do?

Strategy development and planning

• Define research and analysis plan, and source relevant data and information from both internal and external sources (e.g. industry research reports, news articles, competitor data) for analyses

• Bring new perspectives and creative ideas to develop innovative and practical approaches and solutions to problems and issues

• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative analytical results to inform development of relevant recommendations and inform strategic decision making

Strategy and enablement project delivery:

• Work independently to drive analysis and deliverables forward and proactively engage with other team members (both within and outside of Corporate Strategy & Enablement team) to gather information and feedback

• Manage coordination of project delivery across team members (from Corporate Strategy & Enablement team and internal partners)

• Prepare and present both formal and informal updates on analysis / recommendations for senior management

Trends and Competitive intelligence:

• Actively build and maintain awareness of key market and competitive trends and developments through various sources (e.g., secondary research, competitor actions, industry developments)

• Curate external market information by leveraging internal tools, translate into relevant insights and surface patterns/themes that are relevant for Sun Life

Communication and stakeholder management:

• Effectively communicate key insights, ideas and strategies to an executive level audience in a clear, compelling and concise manner (written and verbally)

• Proactively manage relationships with junior to mid-level team members from across the organization to maintain an understanding of new developments in their areas and linkage back to Corporate Strategy & Enablement

• Tailor both written and verbal communication based on audience and situation to maximize buy-in and establish productive working relationships

What do you need to succeed?

• Minimum 5 years' experience in financial services, consulting, or other Fortune 500

• In-house or external consulting or strategy experience is an asset

• University degree in business or related discipline

• Resourceful in learning and ramping up knowledge in new domains rapidly

• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation skills, and strong interpersonal skills

• Strong, analytically anchored problem solving skills, with a solid background working with data, conducting analysis, interpreting results, and writing reports/presentations

• Strong results-oriented project management skills; well organized, with a high attention to details

• Ability to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment

What's in it for you?

• Time off giving you the flexibility to focus on the moments that matter including 20 vacation days per year

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family

• Pension Plan participation starts immediately, and you are automatically enrolled. We help you save more with Sun Life automatic and matching contributions and by including both your salary and bonus when making

• contributions.

• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

• Flexible hybrid work model

• Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives

• A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture

• We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2025 Best Workplace in Canada by Great Place to Work® Canada

• Sun Life ranked one of the 2024 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World on the Corporate Knights’ 2024

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

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