Senior Consultant, Strategy, Group Benefits

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.

Job Description:

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.

Overview

The Senior Consultant, Group Benefits Strategy will support the delivery of strategic activities and projects to enable decision making related to Group Benefits (GB) near term and longer term strategic direction. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with a focus on supporting strategy project delivery, engaging senior leaders in the business and functions to solve key strategic questions and staying in the forefront of competitor actions and market development. This role will work closely with peers across the GB Strategy and Sales Enablement teams.

What will you do?

Support GB's annual planning process

• Own the analysis and content development of specific components of GBs annual planning process

• Support key business leaders in the development of objectives and key results

• Provide project management support throughout the planning cycle and coordinate with team members to deliver strategic plans

Support strategy and innovation work to improve GBs market position

• In partnership with the Directors of Strategy in GB, support strategy and innovation work by leveraging input from SMEs to drive towards recommendations

• Decompose problem statements into a set of hypotheses and perform both quantitative (e.g. financial analysis, market sizing) and qualitative analyses (e.g. competitor benchmarking) to validate them

• Define research and analysis plans and source relevant data and information from both internal (e.g. Finance) and external sources (e.g. industry research reports, new articles, competitor data) for analysis

• Bring new perspectives and creative ideas to develop innovative and practical approaches and solutions to problems and issues

• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative analytical results to inform development of relevant recommendations and inform strategic decision making

Maintain awareness of key market and competitive trends and developments

• Actively build and maintain awareness of key market and competitive trends

• Lead projects to explore or address emerging opportunities or threats

• Build strategic dashboards and monitor key trends impacting the GB business

• Identify implications for GB and proactively communicate / share with appropriate stakeholders (as appropriate)

What do you need to succeed?

• Minimum of 3-5 years relevant business experience, ideally within insurance or group benefits

• Knowledge of insurance / group benefits processes and capabilities

• Experience analyzing and solving complex business problems

• Strong communication and presentations skills - written and oral

• Strong collaboration and relationship 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• University degree in a business discipline

What's in it for you:

• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family

• We're committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment. Our goal is to make sure all our employees have the chance to live up to their full potential

• We're honoured to be recognized as a 2023 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada

• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®, for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health.

*LI-MS

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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