Senior Relationship Manager, Corporate Real Estate

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.

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About the role:

Sun Life is seeking a Senior Relationship Manager, Corporate Real Estate to strengthen partnerships and build trust across Sun Life. Reporting to the Director, CRE Relationship Management, this role serves as a trusted advisor to internal business groups and supporting functions, ensuring workplace environments enhance respective business goals while supporting productivity, collaboration, and a positive employee experience. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator with the ability to influence and foster relationships across diverse teams.

What will you do?

• Understand and translate business strategies into real estate needs, connecting back into CRE strategy.
• Develop a deep understanding of each business group’s goals, workstyles, and anticipated changes that may affect space needs.
• Act as the primary point of contact for assigned business groups, managing requests or escalations while fostering trust and collaboration.
• Facilitate collaborative sessions with business group leaders to capture needs and future requirements, translating feedback into actionable recommendations for CRE leadership.
• Deliver meaningful insights derived from attendance, occupancy, and growth trends, enabling informed decisions about workplace strategies.
• Promote CRE space planning principles and best practices through stakeholder engagement to ensure understanding of and alignment with guiding principles.
• Leverage workplace technology platforms and analytics tools to provide actionable insights that inform decision-making.

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years of demonstrated relationship management experience.
• Strategic mindset with attention to detail and a proactive approach to identifying opportunities.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication skills, and interpersonal skills showcasing the ability to build relationships cross functionally in a large organization.
• Ability to craft compelling, data-driven narratives for diverse audiences.
• Exceptional PowerPoint and Excel proficiency.
• Strong ability to prioritize multiple activities simultaneously while focusing on outcomes and delivering on stakeholder commitments.
• Proactive and highly motivated individual who will take initiative.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving, and sometimes ambiguous hybrid work environment, navigating with a positive attitude, finding creative solutions and maintaining productivity despite unclear parameters or shifting priorities.
• Strong data management and visualization skills.

Unique Requirements:

• Note this is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence 1 day a week. Occasional travel to other offices may be required.

What's in it for you?

• Hybrid work environment
• A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture
• 20 vacation days per year
• 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
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
• Access to our Global Learning Centre, available 24/7 for your learning needs
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health - mental, physical and financial

Recent Awards:

• We are honoured to be recognized as a 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work® Canada
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork 2022
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for Professional Development in Canada 2022
• Named “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor, 2021 and 2023

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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