Vice President, Strategy (Toronto)

Vice President, Strategy (Toronto)

22 Oct
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EQ Bank | Canada's Challenger Bank
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Toronto

22 Oct

EQ Bank | Canada's Challenger Bank

Toronto

Join a Challenger At EQ, we’re remaking banking so every Canadian gets ahead, every day. Serving nearly 4 million Canadians from coast to coast, we offer a wide variety of financial services from banking and lending, to trust and credit union solutions.

We’ve been at this since 1970, challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences.

What’s kept us moving? The people behind it all: challengers who ask better questions, push back on old assumptions, and look for a better way forward.

If you’re driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy, this could be your next big opportunity.

We can’t wait to get to know you

The Work The Vice President, Strategy and Delivery will define core strategy for EQ’s Personal Bank (across products, experiences, and loyalty) and own execution through disciplined capital planning and delivery leadership. This newly created role builds the strategic and delivery backbone of the Personal Bank: leading the divisional PMO, prioritizing capex investment, and driving overall business strategy to strengthen core profitability behaviours.

Strategy

Define and lead 3-year core strategy for the Personal Bank across products, experience, and loyalty expansion

Act as strategic thought partner to business and product leaders, translating insight into clear priorities that align back to objectives and key results (OKRs) and measurable outcomes

Provide business management support to the EVP Personal banking and to the broader Senior Leadership Team, including the regular cadence of management meetings, presentations and various executive forums





Assess and prioritize core strategic programs taking them from concepts to fundable business cases

Prepare quarterly board materials on strategic progress, key decisions, and outlook, as well as monthly progress updates to business leaders, reinforcing transparency and accountability

Liaise with enterprise strategy and corporate development team to assess new business opportunities for the Personal Bank, including M&A; activity

Lead loyalty expansion strategy across all products to ensure rewards are used efficiently and purposefully to drive profitable behaviours critical to achieving commercialization and strategic priorities

Chair and lead a new governance process for points usage, including proposal intake, evaluation criteria, and decision-making

Capital Planning

Own planning and prioritization of all CapEx for the Personal Bank including leading an intake process with clear frameworks for evaluating proposals ahead of prioritization

Govern a capital allocation framework aligning investment with strategic priorities and expected outcomes, holding business leaders accountable to the business case commitments behind funded initiatives

Partner with Finance and Digital on budgeting, forecasting, and ongoing review of capex portfolio

Evaluate resource demand against available capacity across the Personal Banking, Enterprise Technology,



and vendors and align divisional capex plans with enterprise roadmaps and constraints

Lead quarterly planning process (QBR) to oversee performance on projects and initiatives and ensure ongoing prioritization and allocation of resources and capital.

Build and own the reporting against established OKRs as part of the quarterly planning process

Stakeholder & Risk Management

Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across Digital, Enterprise Technology, Finance, Risk, and business lines

Influence and hold accountable senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority

Apply the Bank’s risk appetite and culture to strategic, capital, and delivery decisions, ensuring compliance with operational and regulatory requirements

The Core Responsibilities

10+ years in corporate strategy, delivery/portfolio management, and financial services or a comparably regulated industry

Experience building or scaling a PMO/delivery function, and leading and working in agile operating environments

Robust financial acumen, including capital planning, budgeting, and forecasting at a portfolio level

Proven people leadership, including building teams from the ground up

Ability to influence senior executives amid ambiguity

What we offer [For full-time permanent roles]

Competitive discretionary bonus

Market leading RRSP match program

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one

Generous vacation policy and personal days

Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues

Professi

📌 Vice President, Strategy (Toronto)
🏢 EQ Bank | Canada's Challenger Bank
📍 Toronto

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