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About the Role

This senior role serves as a strategic integrator for RBC Thought Leadership, helping unlock executive effectiveness and accelerate organizational impact through strategy development, operational coordination, and cultural leadership. It translates strategy into business priorities with measurable outcomes and transforms how the team works.

Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership of the RBC Thought Leadership team to ensure workflow, convening, engaging and publishing aligns with enterprise goals and external communication.
• Develop and negotiate external partnerships with key industry partners.
• Lead executive strategy and planning for initiatives like the RBC CEO Council, the Dock, the First Nation’s leadership roundtable, and Eurasia Group summit.
• Develop and maintain robust governance arrangements, decision-making procedures, organizational structure, internal control mechanisms, and effective internal reporting procedures.
• Develop and maintain robust business continuity plans/preparedness and coordinate response efforts.
• Develop and manage the RBC Thought Leadership annual plan.
• Manage engagement at all levels with all RBC Thought Leadership teams, holding decision authority in the absence of the SVP.
• Produce key management reporting for senior management meetings.
• Organize RBC Thought Leadership activities and planning to achieve expected targets and standards in relation to RBC Blueprint Behaviors and Values.
• Create vision for RBC Thought Leadership that leverages the organization’s strength and builds on its competitive advantage.
• Lead and be accountable for recommendations that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the business line, focusing on new initiatives, enhanced capabilities, or cost management.

Requirements

• Extensive experience, particularly in strategy and business management roles, with a proven track record of driving impact within a matrixed organization.
• High professional maturity, emotional intelligence, comfort navigating ambiguity, and conceptual thinking ability.
• Strong executive presence and impact and influence skills.
• Collaborative work style and excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain relationships at various levels within the organization.
• Active listening, respectful challenging, negotiation, and influencing skills with a collaborative OneRBC approach.
• Previous cross-functional project implementation experience, including a strong grasp of technology, operations, and digital.
• Strong written and oral presentation skills and presence.
• Strong technical ability with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• High level of initiative, motivation, and ability to inspire others.
• Strong people leadership skills.

Skills

• Budgeting
• Business Analytics
• Business Process Design
• Conflict Management
• Effectiveness Measurement
• Group Problem Solving
• Industry Knowledge
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Oral Communications
• Research and Development Operations

Location

• ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO
• Toronto
• Canada

Work Type

• Full time
• Salaried

Experience Level

• Senior Director
• Senior

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
• Competitive compensation
• Commissions
• Stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

About the Company

• At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
• We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
• Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
• RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.