Is this role right for you? In this role you will: Lead and drive a client-driven culture throughout your team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.

Serve as the dedicated Business & Journey Enablement partner for SGAM, with end-to-end accountability for the business line investment portfolio from planning through value realization.

Lead annual fiscal planning and portfolio prioritization, establishing a clear, integrated view of investment demand, strategic alignment, affordability, sequencing, and trade-offs.

Guide business case development, funding requests, and investment planning in alignment with Finance guidelines, ensuring decisions are supported by clear outcomes, costs, benefits, assumptions, and dependencies.

Lead readiness planning and tracking across resources, vendors, contracts, requirements, funding, and other mobilization needs to support timely investment execution.

Partner across Business, Technology, Finance, Risk, Procurement, and other enabling functions to align accountabilities, resolve cross-functional constraints, and advance business-line priorities.

Actively manage portfolio-level investment risks, issues, interdependencies, and decisions, escalating matters requiring executive direction and driving timely resolution.

Provide delivery oversight across SGAM's strategic and operational initiatives, monitoring progress, financial performance, readiness, outcomes, and value realization against approved plans.

Develop and present integrated portfolio insights, KPIs, and executive reporting that enable transparent governance, informed decision-making, and timely intervention through Steering Committees, Operating Committees, and other senior forums.

Establish effective two-way communication with business leaders, journey leads, delivery teams,



senior management, and other stakeholders to maintain alignment, negotiate priorities, and sustain delivery momentum.

Build trusted relationships with senior executives and act as a strategic advisor on portfolio choices, investment sequencing, delivery confidence, and value realization.

Oversee, coach, and develop Senior Managers accountable for journey-level portfolio management and strategic advisory, ensuring consistent standards, strong business partnership, and end-to-end accountability across the portfolio.

Lead complex, time-sensitive initiatives spanning business and technology, including vendor selection and management activities such as RFPs, TPRM, contracting, onboarding, workshops, and offboarding.

Manage personal development to ensure knowledge and skills related to portfolio, program, and project management and process improvement are continually refined and enhanced by researching best practices from best-in-class project, program, portfolio, and value realization management sources, taking courses designed around people, process, and technology from leading institutes & building relationships with key internal and external partners across all levels.

Coach, mentor and actively develop managers, senior managers and contractor resources on the team, building talent, skills, and capabilities in alignment with a high-performance environment.





Value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and remain committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.

Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

Create an environment in which the team pursues effective and efficient operations in accordance with Scotiabank's Values, Code of Conduct, and Global Sales Principles, while ensuring effective day-to-day controls supporting operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions, and conduct risk obligations.

Build a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team through inclusive leadership, a coaching mindset, clear communication of vision and strategy, and active succession and development planning.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? – We’d love to work with you if you have: Post-secondary degree with minimum 10+ years related experience including extensive experience in project management and productivity improvement In-depth knowledge of Wealth Management businesses, operational processes, client journeys is an asset.

Expertise in Portfolio/Program/Project Management methodologies, tools, and templates Certified in PMP is an asset Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite Demonstrated leadership skills and critical thinking. A comfort managing multiple concurrent, high-priority initiatives.

Strong negotiation and influencing skills to engage and influence stakeholders collaboratively at all levels of the organization.

Excellent written and oral communications, including expert presentation capabilities.

Results-oriented individual able to lead change, with solid interpersonal, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

📌 Director, Value Realization Office (Toronto)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Toronto