Position

Responsibilities:
- Strategy Cascade and Enterprise Visibility Translate Canada Segment strategy into clear priorities, expectations, and decision criteria for business units and functions.
- Lead periodic strategy reviews and structured check-ins to assess progress, test whether priorities remain valid, and identify where leadership intervention is required.
- Maintain an integrated view of the strategic portfolio, including both funded initiatives and material work outside the formal book of work, to identify gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and emerging risks.
- Synthesize business unit and functional strategies to assess how they collectively advance Canada Segment objectives.
- Help develop and communicate the narrative of the Canada Segment strategy to Enterprise leadership and the Board.
- Strategic Initiatives and Enterprise Problem Solving Lead high‑priority, cross‑business strategic initiatives from problem definition through recommendation, mobilization, and transition to accountable execution owners.
- Frame and evaluate strategic choices, including where to enter, exit, invest, partner, acquire, simplify, or double down.
- Develop fact‑based recommendations through structured problem solving, market and competitive analysis, financial assessment, scenario analysis, and stakeholder input.
- Develop business cases and implementation roadmaps, establish intended outcomes and success measures, and secure senior leadership alignment.
- Support partnership and M&A; assessments, including strategic fit, value creation logic, key risks, and integration considerations, in collaboration with relevant subject‑matter experts.
- Business and Functional Deep Dives Lead periodic vertical and horizontal deep dives across businesses and functions, for example – Distribution, Technology, Operations,



and other enterprise capabilities.
- Act as the Canada Segment’s thought and challenge partner to functions, testing strategic ambition, investment priorities, operating choices, and alignment with business needs.
- Identify cross‑business opportunities, shared capabilities, and structural barriers that may not be visible within individual portfolios.
- Facilitate alignment across business and functional leaders where priorities, accountabilities, or investment choices are unclear.
- Executive Advisory and Team Leadership Provide independent, forward‑looking advice to senior executives and facilitate decisions on complex or ambiguous strategic topics.
- Develop concise executive and Board‑ready materials that clarify the issue, choices, trade‑offs, recommendation, and required decision.
- Build alignment across business units, functions, and enterprise partners through effective facilitation, influence, and constructive challenge.
- Lead and develop a high‑performing, inclusive team with strong capabilities in strategic judgment, structured problem solving, executive communication, and delivery.
- Coach direct reports and peers, allocate resources to the highest‑value priorities.
- Strengthen the Strategy & Transformation team’s methods and capabilities – including via the adoption of AI, better operating rhythms, common approaches, etc. Leadership Capabilities:
- Strategic Judgment: Connect enterprise context, market evidence,



economics, and execution realities to make clear recommendations.
- Structured Problem Solving: Break ambiguous issues into testable hypotheses, focused analyses, and practical choices.
- Influence and Constructive Challenge: Build credibility with senior leaders while testing assumptions and surfacing trade‑offs.
- Executive Communication: Distill complex issues into concise, decision‑oriented narratives and Board‑ready materials.
- Enterprise Collaboration: Create alignment across business units and functions without relying on formal authority.
- Mobilization and Execution: Translate strategy into transparent outcomes, accountabilities, success measures, and an executable path forward.
- Talent Development: Coach and develop high‑performing strategy talent and raise the quality of thinking across the team. Required

Qualifications:
- 8–10+ years of progressively senior experience in corporate strategy, business strategy, management consulting, corporate development, transformation, or a related field.
- Experience in financial services and/or a top‑tier consulting firm strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise or business‑unit strategy across multiple businesses, functions, or geographies.
- Strong financial acumen, including experience developing business cases, assessing investment choices, and evaluating value creation and risk.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop and test hypotheses, synthesize quantitative and qualitative evidence, and translate analysis into practical recommendations.
- Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders, facilitating difficult decisions, and delivering measurable outcomes in complex, matrixed e

📌 Director, Canada Strategy (Toronto)
🏢 Manulife/John Hancock
📍 Toronto