Senior Manager, Institutional Sales Enablement

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About the role

  • Senior Manager governing sales enablement, CRM, RFP workflows, and institutional campaigns for Sun Life Global Investments, a Canadian asset manager. Driving adoption, data quality, and cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the institutional sales enablement strategy, operating model, standards, and governance routines
  • Design scalable playbooks, templates, workflows, scripts, onboarding resources, and adoption routines for Institutional Business Development and Client Relationship activities
  • Own the sales activation framework, calendar, campaign enablement approach, and feedback loops with Marketing and Product
  • Measure enablement effectiveness, adoption, data quality, activity trends, and process consistency
  • Partner with Marketing to develop and govern institutional collateral, campaign materials, market updates, messaging architecture, toolkit standards, and version control
  • Own the sales enablement toolkit, including onboarding materials, training resources, playbooks, scripts, pitch support, and standard collateral
  • Govern content distribution processes for institutional sales materials, product updates, and client communications
  • Own workflow management operating model, intake rules, prioritization criteria, workflow standards, and reporting routines
  • Govern CRM standards, required fields, reporting definitions, dashboard logic, adoption routines, and data-quality expectations
  • Own RFP response platform governance, content library standards, workflow design, SME engagement model, and continuous improvement roadmap
  • Identify, test, govern, and scale responsible AI-enabled solutions
  • Establish and maintain institutional data standards, reporting definitions, quality expectations, and governance routines
  • Develop recurring process documentation, business routines, and enablement reporting standards
  • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Portfolio Management, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Innovation to meet regulatory, brand, governance, and operational requirements
  • Align priorities, clarify decision rights, and improve accountability across institutional sales enablement activities
  • Report to the Director, Institutional Sales Enablement
  • Day-to-day request fulfilment, client/prospect customization, presentation assembly, live RFP coordination, report production, and service delivery are owned by Institutional Sales Support

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, finance, or a related field
  • 5–7+ years of experience in sales enablement, institutional sales, marketing, business operations, platform governance, or related roles within financial services, asset management, or the institutional market
  • Strong understanding of institutional investment products, Canadian pension and retirement markets, and the needs of plan sponsors, consultants, group advisors, and institutional clients
  • Proficiency with sales enablement, CRM, workflow, RFP, and collaboration platforms
  • Experience supporting platform adoption, governance routines, reporting standards, and process improvement
  • Practical understanding of responsible AI applications for sales workflows, content development, reporting, process consistency, and client engagement
  • Excellent project management, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
  • Ability to influence cross-functional partners, manage competing priorities, clarify decision rights, and drive adoption, governance, and process consistency in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
  • Strong commercial orientation and client focus
  • Experience building credibility with internal partners and understanding institutional clients, consultants, group advisors, and plan sponsors
  • Assets: experience with institutional investment databases, sales enablement platforms, CRM systems, workflow tools, RFP platforms, or similar institutional data and technology environments
  • Assets: knowledge of Canadian pension industry fundamentals, retirement plan governance, consultant relations, and institutional investor decision-making processes
  • Assets: Certified Investment Manager designation, CFA designation or enrollment, or equivalent investment industry credential
  • Assets: project management certification or demonstrated experience designing scalable workflows, governance routines, and cross-functional operating practices
  • Assets: experience in a matrixed, shared-services, or cross-functional enablement model

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work from the office and virtually
  • Incentive plans for eligible employees, with discretionary payments based on individual and company performance
  • Sales incentive plans for certain sales-focused roles, based on individual or group sales results
  • Accommodation support during the application process
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$80,000 - CA$128,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Assembly

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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