About the Role
This role leads the design, governance, and scaling of Momentum’s journey-led operating model, aligning cross-functional teams, maintaining the enterprise journey framework, and ensuring transformation efforts deliver measurable business and customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Define, evolve, and embed the enterprise journey-based operating model.
- Establish clear roles, accountabilities, and ways of working across Journey Leaders, Product, Technology, and Operations.
- Drive adoption and consistency across all journeys.
- Define and institutionalize the core principles of the journey operating model — customer at the centre, omni-channel by design, build-once deploy-many, value-led prioritization, and continuous optimization.
- Ensure these principles are embedded in all prioritization, design, and delivery decisions across the enterprise.
- Enable cross-journey prioritization and sequencing of initiatives based on enterprise value.
- Facilitate trade-off decisions across products, channels, and platforms.
- Provide a unified view of priorities across the journey portfolio, that feeds into enterprise-wide portfolio view, capacity, demand, execution and risk view owned by PMO.
- Design governance forums including the Journey Council.
- Enable rapid, informed decision-making and clear escalation pathways.
- Ensure alignment across enterprise priorities and strategic initiatives.
- Define, maintain, and continuously evolve a robust, live, and current library of customer journey definitions.
- Ensure journey definitions reflect the true end-to-end customer experience across all products, channels, and touchpoints.
- Ensure journey definitions are regularly reviewed and updated as the business evolves.
- Provide strategic direction, coaching, and leadership to Journey Leaders.
- Ensure Journey Leaders are driving cross-functional alignment, prioritization, and execution with clarity and impact.
- Hold collective accountability for journey portfolio performance and delivery quality.
- Ensure the delivery of consistent, seamless experiences across Digital, Retail, and Contact Centre.
- Drive alignment between channel and platform teams.
- Champion modular, reusable capabilities and a build-once, deploy-many approach across the enterprise.
Requirements
- 15+ years in transformation, strategy, customer experience, or enterprise operating model leadership — with at least 5 years at Senior Director level or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience designing, leading, or scaling a Centre of Excellence, operating model function, or enterprise capability in a large, complex organization
- Proven track record of leading and developing senior leaders and high-performing teams in a cross-functional environment
- Deep expertise in customer journey design and management — including defining and maintaining enterprise-level journey frameworks that drive measurable outcomes
- Experience operating at CLT or equivalent level — influencing enterprise strategy, investment decisions, and organizational design
- Background in financial services, consumer lending, or a similarly regulated and customer-intensive industry
- Experience standing up or leading a Journey Management Office, CX Centre of Excellence, or equivalent enterprise function
- Familiarity with SAFe or equivalent scaled agile frameworks at a portfolio or program level
- Experience owning enterprise-level CX metrics - NPS, customer effort score, complaints - and driving systemic, sustained improvement
- Background in subprime, near-prime, or financially underserved customer segments - understanding of vulnerability, hardship, and responsible lending obligations
- Track record of building organizational capability through toolkits, playbooks, communities of practice, or formal learning programs
Skills
- Customer journey design
- Customer journey management
- Enterprise operating model leadership
- Transformation
- Strategy
- Customer experience
- Centre of Excellence design/leadership
- SAFe
- Agile frameworks
- CX metrics (NPS, customer effort score, complaints)
- Financial services
- Consumer lending
- Responsible lending
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 15+ years
- 5+ years at Senior Director level or equivalent
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field
- Master’s degree is an asset
Salary/Compensations
- C$ 175000 to C$ 180000
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Health and dental plans with 100% of the premiums covered
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement savings options
- Reimbursement for tuition assistance
- Reimbursement for professional development
- Discounts through Perkopolis
- Rewards and recognition programs
About the Company
- Momentum Financial Services Group helps people move forward by reimagining how money works for those who need it most.
- With more than 40 years of experience, we’re the team behind Money Mart—Canada’s largest non-bank branch network—and a leader in financial solutions for underserved communities.
- We power the products, technology, and operations that connect over a million customers a year to the money they need, when they need it.
- At MFSG, we come together across teams and departments to create something bigger than ourselves: solutions that remove barriers and give people access to money they might not get anywhere else.
- We are committed to building innovative solutions grounded in ethical, transparent, and responsible use of data and technology.
- Aligned with the principles outlined in Canada’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA), we take a proactive approach to ensuring that any AI or data-driven systems we use are safe, fair, and accountable.
- We prioritize strong data governance, clear communication around how systems work, and safeguards that reduce risks and protect individuals.
- Our focus is on developing tools and processes that promote equity, reliability, and trust, supported by ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement.
- Joining MFSG means contributing to a future-focused organization that values both innovation and integrity, where your work helps shape solutions that responsibly support our employees, clients, and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- MFSG is committed to accommodating applicants up to the point of undue hardship during the recruitment, assessment and selection process.
- If you are selected for an interview, please notify MFSG if you require accommodation in respect of the materials or procedures used at any time during this process.
- If you require accommodation, MFSG will work with you to determine how to meet your needs.
