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.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Minimum of Bachelor degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Econometrics, or equivalent experience

UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS

• As a condition of the role, the successful candidate must obtain a Government of Canada Reliability Status security clearance through Sun Life in advance of the start date.
  To see if you are eligible for this clearance, please review the section 201 on the Federal Government site (https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/personnel/pdcf-rsrp-eng.html)

ROLE SUMMARY

At Sun Life, we work together, share common values and encourage growth and achievement. We offer many career paths that attract a wide variety of talent and skills. Follow a path that lets your talents shine.
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We are looking for someone to focus on forecasting demand, creating models, and analyzing data to determine and plan for optimal resourcing. In this role, you will dig deep into business data to generate insight and recommendations based on your findings and communicate those with senior leaders and other stakeholders. The role requires creative problem-solving ability, teamwork, excellent communication and presentation skills, a willingness to try new techniques, and the ability to handle several diverse and concurrent projects. The results of your work will be used for operational decision making identifying continuous improvement opportunities.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Investigate business processes and design, maintain, and refine models of business workflow
• Measure and forecast demand for several diverse business units
• Calculate optimal staffing levels
• Collect, manipulate, and analyze data related to capacity, supply, and demand
• Maintain and measure resourcing forecast and capacity models
• Work within a team to provide analysis, insights and recommendations to senior business leaders to help them recognize areas of opportunity and drive evidence-based operational decisions
• Formally apply statistical / scientific rigour to analysis of data
• Look for ways to innovate and improve processes in a Continuous Improvement environment