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.

What will you do?

The Senior Consultant, Corporate Strategy & Enablement role will report to the AVP, Corporate Strategy & Enablement. The Senior Consultant will support ongoing delivery of internal strategy design and execution and the annual strategic planning cycle, working effectively with teams across Sun Life to deliver strategy projects and proactively monitor and analyze trends. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced, team-first environment with a focus on supporting strategy and enablement project delivery, engaging senior leaders across Sun Life to solve key strategic questions / issues and structuring quantitative and qualitative analysis to solve critical strategic questions. The Senior Consultant will work on a project squad with their respective AVP and will receive coaching and mentorship from Directors on the team.

Strategy development and planning

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

• Conduct quantitative (e.g., financial modeling, market sizing) and qualitative (e.g., benchmarking, expert synthesis) analysis

• Develop and execute analysis plans using internal and external data sources

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 workstreams across team members to ensure timely delivery

• Support presentation of findings and facilitation of discussions with senior management, including implementation planning

Trends and Competitive intelligence:

• Monitor industry trends, competitor actions, and market developments

• Curate insights and identify implications for Sun Life’s strategy

• Proactively share relevant patterns and themes with internal stakeholders

Communication and stakeholder management:

• Effectively communicate insights, ideas, and strategies clearly & concisely to an executive level audience

• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships with junior to mid-level team members across the organization to identify emerging needs and opportunities

What do you need to succeed?

• 5 years of relevant business experience - ideally in financial services, consulting or insurance

• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills - experience 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

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

• Strong interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders across multiple teams

• Able to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment

• Strong understanding of at least one Sun Life business area (e.g. asset management, insurance, wealth management) and geographic markets (Canada, US, Asia) is an asset

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 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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