Senior Consultant, Sun Life Health Strategy

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 Senior Consultant, Sun Life Health Strategy will support the delivery of strategic activities and projects to enable decision making related to Sun Life Health near-term and longer-term strategic direction. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with a focus on supporting strategy project delivery, engaging senior leaders in the business and functions to solve key strategic questions and staying in the forefront of competitor actions and market development. This role will work closely with peers across the Health Strategy and Enablement teams.

What will you do?

• Support Sun Life Health’s annual planning process
  • Own the analysis and content development of specific components of Sun Life Health’s annual planning process
  • Support key business leaders in the development of objectives and key results
  • Provide project management support throughout the planning cycle and coordinate with team members to deliver strategic plans
    

• Support strategy and innovation work to improve Sun Life Health’s market position
  • In partnership with the Directors of Strategy in Sun Life Health, support strategy and innovation work by leveraging input from SMEs to drive towards recommendations
  • Decompose problem statements into a set of hypotheses and perform both quantitative (e.g., financial analysis, market sizing) and qualitative analyses (e.g., competitor benchmarking) to validate them
  • Define research and analysis plans and source relevant data and information from both internal (e.g., Finance) and external sources (e.g., industry research reports, news articles, competitor data) for analysis
  • 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

• Maintain awareness of key market and competitive trends and developments
  • Actively build and maintain awareness of key market and competitive trends
  • Lead projects to explore or address emerging opportunities or threats
  • Build strategic dashboards and monitor key trends impacting the Sun Life Health business
  • Identify implications for Sun Life Health and proactively communicate / share with appropriate stakeholders (as appropriate)

What do you need to succeed?

• Minimum of 3-5 years relevant business experience, ideally within insurance or group benefits
• Knowledge of insurance / group benefits processes and capabilities
• Experience analyzing and solving complex business problems
• Strong experience in strategic, research, and data analysis - including the ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights to inform business recommendations and decision-making
• Strong communication and presentations skills - written and oral
• Strong collaboration and relationship management skills
• University degree in a business discipline

What’s in it for you?

• We’re proud to be a Best Workplace for Hybrid Work by Great Place to Work® Canada
• Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family.
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security.

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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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