You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

GENERAL SKILLS:

• Energy, enthusiasm, commitment, courage and entrepreneurial excitement, with a desire for ownership
• Ability to inspire teams at all levels, building momentum around a vision
• Superior strategic and tactical thinking ability, combined with a strong business sense to challenge the status-quo
• The capability to develop and articulate reliable plans and link them to functional and business financial plans
• The ability to build an environment where the organization and its people learn naturally from experiences and look for ways to apply their learning to benefit the organization
• The ability to effectively influence people of all levels, including senior leadership in a fast-moving environment; A desire to commit to and get things done
• Great organizational skills, with excellent planning and time management skills
• As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

EDUCATION:

• Completion of IFIC and/or CSC courses, or to be completed within 12 months after the start date.

ROLE SUMMARY:

The Director, Product Owner, Retail Wealth Platform is responsible for delivering on the Dealer Wealth Platform strategy, digital experiences, tools and capabilities. This role will partner jointly with Wealth Platform teams, Digital Business Technology Services (DBTS), as well as working closely with Advisors, Client Experience Office (CXO), third party vendors and other Sun Life business units / functions. This role oversees multiple squads to deliver target business capabilities in partnership with a corresponding Wealth Platform IT Lead. They will live Agile values and push the teams to do the same. This role will ensure that each team member is driving in the right direction across persistent teams. The incumbent will have a strong understanding of the wealth industry, including regulatory, technological, and competitive trends.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Execute on the established wealth platform vision and supporting strategy that will deliver target business outcomes
• Continuously delivers Platform work towards achieving wealth platform OKRs and generate insights to ensure persistent teams are progressing towards OKRs
• Provide guidance to enable teams in developing strategies and solutions that deliver on business outcomes
• Develop clearly defined metrics, and prioritization framework aligned with executive input and direction, to evaluate success and continuous, measurable improvement.
• Identify and collaborate with areas of the business impacted by Platform initiatives ensuring seamless implementation
• Proactively stay in touch with internal partners to maintain an understanding of new developments in their areas and identify opportunities for collaboration
• Manage third party vendor relationships ensuring we are abreast of new developments and aligned in roadmap delivery of capabilities
• Provide leadership, motivation, guidance and coaching to business platform teams, in particular Product Owners on behalf of the Retail Wealth business.