Job Description What is the opportunity?
The Strategic Planning & Alignment Lead serves as a strategic partner within Global Security, collaborating with senior decision-makers across RBC. This role focuses on translating executive vision into explicit strategic outcomes and ensuring alignment across cybersecurity initiatives. The position acts as a catalyst for strategic execution excellence, emphasizing the journey from vision to measurable results while positioned outside delivery teams and decision-making authorities to provide objective strategic oversight.
What do you need to succeed? Strategic Partnership & Outcome Definition Collaborate with the Senior Management Team (SMT) to clearly define and articulate strategic outcomes, success criteria, and organizational alignments for Global Security initiatives
Facilitate strategic planning sessions to ensure initiatives are properly scoped, prioritized, and linked to RBC's cybersecurity strategy
Coach senior leaders on effective articulation of strategic intent and expected outcomes
Strategic Tracking & Oversight Establish and track key strategic milestones across Global Security initiatives
Monitor progress against strategic objectives and report on status to leadership
Ensure transparency in initiative status and strategic outcomes through regular reporting
Maintain strategic dashboards and executive-level status reports
Governance & Coordination Develop and maintain strategic initiative frameworks, governance processes, and decision-making protocols
Coordinate PI- planning cross-functional planning events and stakeholder engagement activities
Ensure clear strategic commitments and accountabilities are established and documented




Knowledge Management & Communication Create and maintain strategic documentation that links vision to execution, including strategic roadmaps and outcome frameworks
Coach teams on strategic thinking, initiative management, and alignment best practices
Communicate strategic progress and outcomes to diverse stakeholders across RBC
Drive adoption of strategic enablement practices across Global Security departments
What do you need to succeed? Must Have 8+ years of experience in strategic planning, program management within cybersecurity or technology
Experience working directly with senior leadership to define strategic outcomes and secure commitments
Strong background in strategic tracking, milestone management, and progress monitoring
Experience in cybersecurity, financial services, or large-scale technology environments
Strong capability to guide teams on effectively managing and prioritizing backlogs to ensure alignment with business goals
Experience training teams on creating, editing, and organizing pages for sprint planning, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing in Confluence
Excellent technical and business acumen, must be comfortable presenting to a broad range of stakeholders
Nice to have: Change Management certification
Previous banking experience
PMP
What's in it for you? We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper.



We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference in our communities, and achieving mutual success
A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
Opportunities to do challenging work and take on progressively greater accountabilities
Job Skills Agile Methodology, Agile Product Development, Agile Software Development, Change Management, Coaching Others, Collaboration, Communication, Decision Making, Facilitation, Time Management
Additional Job Details Address:
16 YORK ST:TORONTO City:
Toronto Country:
Canada Work hours/week:
37.5 Employment Type:
Full time Platform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS Job Type:
Regular Pay Type:
Salaried Posted Date:
2026-08-06 Application Deadline:
2026-10-09
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📌 Strategic Planning & Alignment Lead (Global Security) (Ontario)
🏢 RBC
📍 Ontario