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About the Role
The Program Delivery Lead is accountable for planning, coordinating, and driving the execution of enterprise-wide people transformation initiatives. This role works across senior leadership teams and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment, mitigate risks, enable decision-making, and ensure successful delivery and adoption of transformation outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the integrated transformation roadmap, milestones, dependencies, and governance model.
- Track progress, surface risks and issues early, and drive decisions to keep the program on track.
- Own transformation reporting, including status updates, executive dashboards, and steering committee materials.
- Coordinate workstream leads across org design, process harmonization, systems/technology, culture, and people transition.
- Lead change management strategy, including stakeholder impact assessments, communications planning, training/enablement, and adoption measurement.
- Anticipate resistance points across merging entities and build mitigation plans tailored to different cultures and legacy structures.
- Support workforce planning and transition activities tied to transformation initiatives.
- Navigate competing priorities and differing organizational cultures with diplomacy and influence.
- Act as an escalation point for issues requiring leadership-level visibility or intervention.
- Act as a trusted advisor and execution arm to the Head of HR, helping to deliver strategic priorities, decisions, and messaging.
- Prepare briefing materials, executive presentations, and key support materials on behalf of leadership.
- Serve as a key liaison between the HR leadership team and cross-functional partners.
- Represent the Head of HR in select HR forums, ensuring continuity and follow-up on commitments.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across all entities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive experience spanning HR, organizational transformation, business operations, or management consulting.
- Prior consulting background strongly preferred (e.g., strategy, HR transformation, change management, org design).
- Demonstrated PMO/program management experience on large-scale, cross-functional transformations, ideally including M&A integration or entity consolidation.
- Strong grounding in core HR disciplines: org design, workforce planning, change management, talent.
- Executive presence with the ability to build credibility quickly with C-suite and senior leaders.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills across matrixed, multi-entity environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complexity into clear executive narratives.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with disciplined execution.
Skills
- HR
- Organizational transformation
- Business operations
- Management consulting
- Strategy
- HR transformation
- Change management
- Org design
- PMO
- Program management
- M&A integration
- Entity consolidation
- Workforce planning
- Talent
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Strategic thinking
- Disciplined execution
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director-level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree required
- MBA or relevant graduate degree a plus
Salary/Compensations
- CA$110,000–CA$150,000
- US$110,000–US$150,000
Benefits
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top-up program
- Partially-paid sabbatical program
- Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match
- Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support mental, physical and financial well-being
About the Company
- SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors.
- We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations.
- We have over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM).
- As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.
- We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset.
- We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.
- SLC Management is a regulated business with certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive.
- We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate.
- We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
- We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations.
- Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.