Senior Consultant, AI Strategy – Program Execution

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About the role

  • Senior Consultant shaping AI strategy and executing cross-functional workstreams at Sun Life, a financial-services company. Developing roadmaps, recommendations, and measurable outcomes across business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead structured analysis of AI priorities and emerging challenges
  • Develop strategies, frameworks, business cases, and roadmaps for AI adoption, reuse, convergence, and scaling
  • Identify opportunities, gaps, overlaps, and dependencies across the AI portfolio
  • Support cross-workstream priorities and advance new initiatives
  • Synthesize analysis and stakeholder input into executive-ready recommendations
  • Lead an assigned AI workstream and translate strategic direction into deliverables, milestones, timelines, and actions
  • Collaborate with technical solution leads to reuse, consolidate, and standardize AI capabilities and components
  • Develop and maintain workplans and coordinate stakeholders
  • Manage timelines, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and escalations
  • Lead cross-functional working sessions and facilitate alignment and decision-making
  • Monitor progress and outcomes and adapt plans as priorities and constraints evolve
  • Build relationships across business, technology, architecture, security, governance, and operational teams
  • Develop executive presentations, decision materials, strategic updates, and recommendations
  • Translate complex technical and strategic topics into clear business language
  • Maintain transparency into priorities, progress, decisions, risks, and outcomes

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, technology strategy/transformation, product strategy, program leadership, or a similar strategy-and-execution role
  • Demonstrated program management experience, including workplans, timelines, risks, issues, dependencies, and cross-functional delivery
  • Ability to structure ambiguous problems, conduct analysis, develop recommendations, and translate recommendations into action
  • Experience developing strategies, business cases, operating models, roadmaps, executive presentations, or similar strategic deliverables
  • Ability to operate at strategic and execution levels
  • Bias toward action and ability to independently move work forward in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
  • Preferred: experience with AI, automation, analytics, data, or digital transformation initiatives
  • Preferred: background in management consulting, internal consulting, corporate strategy, transformation, or strategy and operations
  • Familiarity with enterprise architecture, software delivery, data, cloud, cybersecurity, and technology-governance concepts
  • Familiarity with software or technology product lifecycle, including adoption, governance, and implementation
  • Experience preparing executive presentations, dashboards, and status reporting
  • Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and coordinating work across Agile teams
  • Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMP, or related certifications are an asset but not required

Benefits

  • Wellness programs that support mental, physical, and financial health
  • Variety of career paths with networking potential
  • Hybrid work with flexibility to work from home or in the office
  • Employee participation in various incentive plans, subject to individual and company performance
  • Mental health-focused workplace programs and support

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$100,000 - CA$143,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudCyber SecurityPMP

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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