Vice President establishing centralized procurement for Canada’s largest Canadian - owned data center provider. Optimizing sourcing, contracts, supplier risk, and construction materials delivery.
About the role
- Vice President leading Aviva Canada’s enterprise transformation and change portfolio. Driving investment governance, delivery performance, benefits realization, and executive stakeholder alignment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Change Practice and Business Partnering teams, including performance, capability building, stakeholder alignment, change readiness, and delivery support.
- Chair the Change Investment Steer Co, driving prioritization, funding decisions, affordability, capital trade-offs, and investment sequencing across a $100–200 M enterprise change portfolio.
- Spearhead portfolio performance management covering financials, resources, delivery health, risk exposure, milestones, benefits forecast versus actuals, and dependency tracking.
- Establish portfolio routines, scorecards, thresholds, and recovery plans to surface and resolve performance issues.
- Drive disciplined business cases and value assurance with Finance and sponsors; validate assumptions and hold benefit owners accountable.
- Provide executive-level reporting on progress, risks, trade-offs, outcomes, and competing priorities for C-suite stakeholders.
- Navigate complex stakeholder environments, resolve friction, influence without authority, and create clarity through ambiguity.
- Steward vendor relationships for contract and flexible resource pools, negotiating capacity, SLAs, and performance metrics.
- Lead the annual Roadmap Refresh and translate enterprise strategy and external market insight into a prioritized three-year change plan.
- Enforce governance, risk, and issue-management standards while balancing pace, control, compliance, and operational resilience in a regulated environment.
- Set delivery standards, coach talent, embed best practices, and build succession depth across the transformation function.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, technology, project management) or equivalent experience.
- Significant leadership experience driving large-scale transformation, modernization, and organizational change initiatives.
- Proven ability to lead large transformation portfolios, prioritize investments, manage funding trade-offs, and deliver measurable enterprise outcomes.
- Skilled at translating complex data, risks, and trade-offs into clear decisions for C-suite stakeholders and governance forums.
- Expertise in dashboards, scorecards, baselines, thresholds, delivery health, financials, resources, forecasting, dependency tracking, benefits realization, and translating insight into executive action.
- Strong capability in business cases, affordability, Finance validation, benefit ownership, and value realization.
- Experience leading transformation with strong controls, issue management, compliance awareness, and operational resilience.
- Track record building delivery and business analysis capability, setting standards, coaching talent, and strengthening succession pipelines.
- Ability to align stakeholders, assess readiness, and enable adoption across business units and functions.
- Skilled in negotiating contracts, SLAs and performance metrics with third-party providers to maintain scalable and flexible delivery capacity.
- Strong people-leadership skills, identifying high potentials, crafting development pathways, and mentoring future leaders at scale.
- Experience driving annual roadmap refresh processes and translating enterprise strategy into a coherent three-year change plan with measurable outcomes.
- Industry trends, benchmarks, emerging practices, and technology-enabled change perspective.
- Professional certification in project, program, or change management preferred.
- Accounting designation preferred; CPA or equivalent financial qualification considered an asset.
- Decisive, commercial, resilient, collaborative, and trusted at executive level; able to inspire pace, quality, and ownership.
Benefits
- Competitive executive compensation package, including annual incentive opportunities.
- Comprehensive pension and retirement savings programs.
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Industry-leading health and wellness benefits.
- Professional development and executive leadership opportunities.
- Inclusive employee resource groups and diversity initiatives.
- Volunteer opportunities and community impact programs.
- Competitive vacation and wellness offerings.
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