Portfolio Strategy Lead

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About the role

  • Portfolio strategy lead guiding Sun Life’s corporate real estate planning across Toronto and Waterloo sites. Developing financial analyses, recommendations, and executive approval materials.

Responsibilities

  • Own strategic planning and decision pipeline for an assigned portfolio of sites
  • Assess renewals, relocations, consolidations, investments, and other site decisions against broader portfolio objectives
  • Identify decision points, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across the portfolio
  • Translate site-level findings into portfolio insights and recommendations
  • Lead business cases, options analyses, financial comparisons, and decision materials
  • Gather and validate inputs from leasing, facilities, design, project management, finance, and business stakeholders
  • Test assumptions, reconcile details, and articulate trade-offs, risks, and implications
  • Build trusted relationships and coordinate work across teams without direct reporting authority
  • Prepare concise executive-facing presentations and approval packages
  • Track feedback and follow-up actions through resolution

Requirements

  • 3-5+ years of experience in corporate real estate, portfolio strategy, leasing, workplace strategy, finance, consulting, or related field
  • University degree in business, real estate, finance, or a related field
  • Strategic mindset and ability to connect detailed project analysis to broader portfolio priorities
  • Structured and curious problem-solving approach
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Strong analytical and financial-modelling skills, including business cases, capital and operating cost scenarios, cash flow, NPV, sensitivity analysis, and run-rate impacts
  • Strong planning and organizational skills
  • Experience presenting decision materials for VP-level and senior audiences
  • Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Confidence using AI and other digital tools
  • Experience with multi-site real estate portfolios or financial services is nice to have
  • Familiarity with real estate market research, scenario analysis, or portfolio planning tools is nice to have

Benefits

  • 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
  • Inclusive and respectful environment
  • Employee well-being support and mental health workplace initiatives
  • Hybrid work flexibility from the office and virtually

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$70,000 - CA$105,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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