You'll work with energetic 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.

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Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Agile Program Delivery Manager

As an Agile Program Delivery Manager on the GRS Marketing team, you will champion agile ways of working across a high-performing marketing organization, enabling teams to deliver impactful digital client engagement initiatives. You'll remove obstacles, foster collaboration, drive continuous improvement, support portfolio planning, and help advance Sun Life's agile marketing transformation while maximizing team performance, quality, and delivery velocity. Support marketing delivery excellence.

Support the marketing delivery team by identifying opportunities to accelerate and improve marketing processes, outputs, and digital marketing strategy through agile thinking.

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Agile delivery practices by inspiring and facilitating Agile values across the team, including sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, backlog management, and other essential ceremonies. Guide the Agile marketing team and stakeholders in embracing Agile principles and methodologies.



Project management and strategic planning.

Provide overall project management and capacity utilization planning, including forecasting, for the team. Drive or support definition of campaign goals, support the creation of client stories, build team backlogs, time-box deliverables, and support campaign development and testing. Capture levels of effort, timelines, and resourcing and budgetary requirements of digital strategy portfolio initiatives.

Issue resolution and stakeholder management. Lead issue and roadblock resolution by engaging and navigating with cross-functional partners to anticipate risks and address issues proactively. Escalation management - Provide escalation support to troubleshoot issues, identify root causes and implement effective resolutions.

Digital strategy and marketing technology leadership. Take the lead on the team's management and implementation of digital strategy initiatives and marketing technology, including POCs and implementations. Coach team members to optimize individual and group contributions and maximize campaign ROI through effective agile practices and process improvement.



5+ years' experience in agile practices and coaching agile teams with proven results and deliverables ~3+ years as part of a high-performance marketing organization (i.e. large consumer brand, cutting-edge advertising agency, leading financial services organization, or marketing/media practice of a top management consulting firm) ~ Subject matter expert in agile practices (Scrum framework) ~ Collaboration, leading through influence, relationship building across diverse groups and teams ~ Advocate for using capacity to optimize OKR and customer experience ~ Experienced in backlog building, burndown tracking, etc A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.

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. 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.

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📌 Agile Program Delivery Manager (Toronto)
🏢 Sun Life Financial
📍 Toronto