Canada Life is looking for a Manager, Strategy Execution to create and maintain an accountable, transparent, and well-coordinated environment for strategic work. This role supports Canada’s strategic initiative portfolio, overseeing budgeting, reporting, governance, and investment optimization to enable strong enterprise-wide decision making. The Manager, Strategy Execution reports directly to the Program Director, Canada Strategic Initiatives Management.
What You'll Do
- Support Canada’s strategic initiative portfolio, overseeing budgeting, reporting, governance, and investment optimization.
- Manage the Canadian Initiative Governance (CIG) process end-to-end, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and ongoing enhancements.
- Evaluate and challenge initiative business cases, ensuring clear targets, sound assumptions, measurable outcomes, and alignment with strategic plans.
- Oversee the integrated pipeline of Canadian initiatives, from identification through planning, execution, and value realization.
- Provide strategic insights and program updates to Canada Strategy, Finance, Technology, Risk, Audit, and other key stakeholders.
- Lead components of the corporate strategic planning cycle, offering thought leadership, analytical support, and executive-ready recommendations.
- Facilitate annual business improvement and initiative planning, collaborating closely with business and functional leaders.
- Act as a strategic liaison across functions, fostering collaboration and managing complex stakeholder dynamics.
- Coordinate and maintain multi-year forecasts, including regular reporting to the Canada Executive team.
- Oversee strategic initiatives from planning through execution, analyzing results and ensuring continuous alignment with business objectives.
What We're Looking For
- Post-secondary education in business or a related field, with 5+ years of practical business experience.
- Expertise in strategy development, governance, and execution, with a proven track record supporting or leading corporate strategy, financial management, or enterprise initiatives.
- Strong financial acumen, including financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and evaluating business or technology initiatives.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to create executive-ready presentations and adapt messaging for diverse audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, able to derive insights from data.
- Highly effective relationship builder, skilled in networking, collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and influencing across functions.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate conflict, find synergies across programs, and drive alignment in complex or competing environments.
- Organizational agility, with experience working on cross-functional projects spanning multiple teams, business units, or organizational layers.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to adapt, prioritize, and execute in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and results orientation, ensuring progress toward goals while maintaining high standards of delivery.
- Challenger mindset, willing to question assumptions, challenge the status quo, and champion new ways of thinking.
- High integrity and sound judgment, demonstrating a personal commitment to ethics, transparency, diversity, and trust.
Nice to Have
- Experience in financial services is an asset.
Technical Stack
- Excel
- PowerPoint
Team & Environment
Reports directly to the Program Director, Canada Strategic Initiatives Management.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $90,400 - $140,400 annually
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position open to candidates in Toronto, London, and Winnipeg.
Canada Life is an equal opportunity employer.
