Requisition ID: 276793

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Role

This Director Level role is a strategic operational leader within the Enterprise Data and AI Platform organization, responsible for driving workforce optimization, engagement, communication, and innovation outcomes. This role enables the SVP & CIO’s strategic agenda by ensuring that human capital, vendor engagement, and organizational communications are optimized to deliver measurable value, efficiency, and cultural impact across a global technology function.

The Director leads cross-functional initiatives spanning workforce strategy, contract and vendor optimization, communications and branding, and innovation and early talent development, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Data and AI Platform technology roadmap and operational priorities.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

Portfolio Strategy & Prioritization

- Translate strategic priorities into an integrated portfolio roadmap, investment plan, and delivery priorities.
- Maintain visibility of portfolio outcomes, milestones, investment decisions, and strategic trade-offs.
- Support annual and multi-year planning processes, including roadmap and funding decisions.
- Monitor delivery across initiatives, identifying cross-program dependencies, risks, constraints, and execution gaps.
- Coordinate with program, product, engineering, architecture, risk, finance, and business teams to ensure portfolio alignment.
- Drive disciplined management of scope, milestones, commitments, and portfolio-level outcomes.

Financial & Workforce Management

- Manage portfolio budgets, forecasts, actuals,



and financial performance.
- Support business cases and investment decisions, including FTE, contractor, and vendor capacity requirements.
- Track workforce demand and capacity against portfolio priorities.
- Identify opportunities to optimize spend, reduce duplication, and improve return on investment.

Executive Reporting & Insights

- Develop concise executive and SteerCo reporting on portfolio health, delivery progress, investments, risks, and decisions required.
- Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Establish portfolio KPIs and reporting that connect delivery progress with measurable business outcomes.
- Ensure risks and emerging issues are surfaced early with explicit mitigation and decision paths

Metrics, Dashboards, And Reporting

- Own design and governance for Enterprise Data and AI Platform’s dashboarding framework, ensuring timely, accurate, and insightful reporting for executives.
- Track and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) and key risk indicators (KRIs) across workforce capacity, engagement, financial optimization, and innovation delivery.
- Partner with data and analytics teams to enhance automation, transparency, and decision support for CIO and leadership forums.

Strategic & Operational Leadership





- Contribute to strategic planning cycles, leadership offsites, and transformation programs.
- Represent the Enterprise Data and AI Platform strategy and operations function across enterprise technology leadership forums.

Skills

- Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources, Communications, or a related field; MBA preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in workforce management, operations, or strategic communications ideally within technology, financial services, or a professional services environment.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs with measurable business impact and stakeholder alignment.
- Strong financial and contractual acumen with demonstrated experience optimizing vendor and resource portfolios.
- Superior storytelling, communication, and presentation skills with experience representing senior technology leaders.
- Familiarity using analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to drive workforce and performance insights.
- Strategic thinker with a collaborative and execution-oriented leadership style.

What's in it for you?

- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
- Accessibility and Workplace Accommod

📌 Director, Strategy and Operations (Canada)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Canada