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About the Role
The Managing Director will provide program management leadership for SLC MEP and integration activities. The role is accountable for shaping the overall execution approach, aligning senior stakeholders, establishing governance discipline, coordinating cross-functional execution, and ensuring decisions, risks, dependencies, budgets, and execution priorities are managed with transparency and rigor.
Responsibilities
- Own and actively manage the integrated execution plan for SLC MEP and integration activities, including milestones, dependencies, owners, risks, sequencing, and decision points.
- Drive cross-functional delivery across Finance, HR, Tax, Legal, Technology, Operations, Risk, Change Management, business leaders, external advisors, and other stakeholders.
- Run disciplined operating rhythms, governance forums, status reviews, and escalation processes that keep workstreams moving and accountable.
- Track budgets, approvals, advisor scopes, deliverables, timelines, and forecasted spend, ensuring risks, overages, blockers, and unresolved issues are addressed promptly.
- Convert cross-functional inputs into clear action items, owner assignments, execution decisions, escalation matters, and progress updates for senior leadership.
- Maintain delivery momentum by removing roadblocks, resolving execution issues, enforcing accountability, and ensuring workstream outputs are completed to the required quality and timeline.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading complex enterprise execution, integrations, transactions, or transformation delivery in a matrixed environment.
- Strong delivery discipline, judgment, and ability to drive outcomes through influence, coordination, and structured follow-through.
- Demonstrated ability to turn priorities into executable plans, manage competing workstreams, resolve ambiguity, and keep teams focused on delivery milestones.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise status updates, action logs, decision materials, governance documents, and escalation summaries.
- Experience managing external advisors, budgets, scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, and execution-related issue resolution.
- Comfort operating across Finance, Tax, HR, Legal, Technology, Operations, transaction integration, operating model change, governance, and enterprise-wide implementation activities.
- Ability to identify execution risks, escalate clearly, and drive timely decisions in complex and sensitive environments.
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- 140,000 - 225,000
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
- Discretionary annual incentive award
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.
- Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with 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.
- As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference.
- 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.
- Visit our website to learn more and for the most up to date AUM information.
- SLC Management offers a mix of in-office and virtual work where our employees are empowered to do their best.
- Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on their business, client and team needs.
- SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees.
- Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.
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 may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
- 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.
- We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position.
- Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.