VP leading platform - agnostic ERP, CRM, and AI delivery teams at Appficiency, a technology and professional services firm. Driving client strategy, sales alignment, and AI - enabled delivery efficiency.
About the role
- Director shaping Desjardins’ Personal Services data, analytics, and AI strategy. Leading transformation, governance, executive partnerships, and high-impact use cases for a cooperative financial group.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the Personal Services data, analytics and AI strategy
- Develop the sector's strategic vision for data, analytics and artificial intelligence
- Establish strategic directions, priorities and roadmaps to maximize the business value of data
- Identify and recommend investments supporting the sector's ambitions
- Ensure sector initiatives align with organizational priorities
- Lead transformation initiatives that expand the use of data, advanced analytics and AI
- Help leaders and teams adopt data-driven decision-making
- Influence the evolution of practices, processes and ways of working
- Lead the strategic evolution of the data, analytics and AI ecosystem
- Advance analytics capabilities and improve decision-making information
- Prioritize and oversee high-impact use cases benefiting members and clients, increasing revenue, improving operational efficiency and strengthening risk management
- Promote emerging technologies and AI to unlock new sources of value
- Advise executives on data and artificial intelligence opportunities, challenges, risks and impacts
- Mobilize business, technology and analytics partners
- Influence strategic decisions in a complex, highly matrixed environment
- Ensure consistency across sector data and analytics initiatives
- Serve as the sector's data steward
- Promote best practices in data management, quality, accessibility and use
- Ensure responsible, ethical and effective data governance
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- A minimum of ten years of relevant experience
- Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
- Experience in data, analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence or digital transformation
- Experience defining and implementing data strategies that deliver significant business value
- Experience working with senior executives in complex, multidisciplinary environments
- Experience in data governance, business intelligence or advanced analytics
- Significant experience influencing, engaging and managing stakeholders at the strategic and executive levels
- Proven experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives that affect practices, processes or operating models
- Knowledge of French is required
- Advanced strategic communication skills and ability to explain complex data, analytics and AI concepts and issues
- Business insight, Collaborates, Develops talent, Drive results, Innovation, Networks, Strategic mindset
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
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