Director, Innovation and Growth
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Sun Life
Job Description
You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
Job Description:
Responsibilities
Lead innovation and growth enablement execution
- Translate innovation and growth priorities for L&H into clearly defined initiatives, delivery roadmaps, and execution plans.
- Own end‑to‑end delivery of assigned initiatives to ensure outcomes are achieved within agreed scope, timelines, and resources.
Establish and drive cross‑functional governance and execution discipline
- Provide execution leadership across cross‑functional stakeholders by setting governance structures, decision forums, milestones, and performance tracking.
- Resolve delivery risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs to maintain momentum and alignment with business priorities.
Provide strategic insight, performance tracking, and decision support
- Consolidate business performance indicators, initiative outcomes, and risk insights into actionable recommendations to support decision‑making by the Chief Innovation and Growth Officer and senior leadership.
- Ensure transparency of progress, issues, and benefits realization.
Drive change execution and stakeholder adoption
- Translate transformation intent into executable change plans, stakeholder engagement strategies, and adoption activities. Proactively identify resistance, execution gaps, and capability risks, implementing corrective actions to ensure sustainable outcomes.
- Engage senior stakeholders across functions to align priorities, manage interdependencies, and resolve conflicts. Contribute to leadership materials, updates, and forums by providing clear, fact‑based perspectives.
Requirements
- University degree required; advanced degree or professional qualification preferred
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including experience leading complex initiatives and managing senior professionals
- Deep knowledge of business transformation, innovation execution, and growth enablement within financial services or insurance
- Strong understanding of operating models, performance management, and cross‑functional governance
- Proven people leadership capability, including managing managers and senior professionals
- Solid commercial and financial acumen to assess initiative impact and trade‑offs
We offer 5-day work, attractive salary, MPF, group life and group medical insurance; and excellent career development opportunities to the right candidate.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Application forms and resume will be kept for a period of 24 months after completion of the recruitment process. (All information will be held in strict confidence and only be used for recruitment purpose).
Job Category:
Corporate Development & StrategyPosting End Date:
30/04/2026Similar Jobs
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