About the Role
This role will advance Sun Life Health’s strategic health partners ecosystem, supporting product and partnership strategy, optimizing solutions, enhancing member and client value, and contributing to commercialization and growth initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker capable of structuring complex initiatives, developing recommendations, and driving execution with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Support portfolio strategy and growth.
- Contribute to the development and execution of strategic roadmaps for partner-enabled products and services.
- Support the evaluation and prioritization of new product concepts, enhancements, and strategic investments.
- Support the development of business cases, recommendations, and executive materials.
- Enable successful commercialization of partner-enabled health solutions.
- Develop presentations, sales materials, and value proposition content.
- Collaborate with distribution, marketing, and sales enablement teams.
- Help identify opportunities to improve awareness, adoption, and utilization.
- Support product evolution and optimization.
- Support the ongoing management and optimization of in-market products and services.
- Develop recommendations to improve product adoption, engagement, customer experience, and business outcomes.
- Analyze data to identify opportunities for enhancement.
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to translate insights into actionable improvements.
- Deliver strategic initiatives.
- Support cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
- Build project plans, monitor progress, identify risks, and support issue resolution.
- Support governance activities, executive updates, and portfolio reporting.
- Help ensure strategic initiatives are delivered on time and aligned to business objectives.
- Generate insights and recommendations.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis to support business decisions.
- Perform market research, competitor analysis, and customer insight gathering.
- Synthesize complex information into clear recommendations and executive-ready presentations.
- Use dashboards, metrics, and data-driven insights to monitor performance and support prioritization and continuous improvements.
Requirements
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Ability to connect customer needs, market trends, product opportunities, and business priorities.
- Experience supporting product strategy, product management, innovation, commercialization, or portfolio initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to work with data, identify insights, assess performance, and develop clear recommendations.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
- Ability to simplify complex information and create executive-ready materials.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence, align, and collaborate across internal and external teams.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and move work from concept through execution.
- Experience working through ambiguity.
- Experience translating insights into practical recommendations.
- Experience collaborating across teams to move initiatives forward.
Skills
- Strategic thinking
- Business acumen
- Product strategy
- Product management
- Innovation
- Commercialization
- Portfolio management
- Analytical skills
- Data analysis
- Communication
- Storytelling
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- Organizational skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3–5+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, innovation, business strategy, management consulting, portfolio management, or related disciplines
- Experience within health, digital health, insurance, financial services, or technology environments
- Experience working in a large matrix organization is an asset
- Experience working with customer-facing products, services, or digital experiences
- Knowledge of the Canadian health and benefits ecosystem is an asset
- Experience supporting executive-level presentations, commercialization activities, and strategic planning initiatives
Salary/Compensations
- 80,000 - 128,000
About the Company
- At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
- Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.
- When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.
- Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
- We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.
- We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
- 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.
