About the Role
This role serves as a trusted partner to the Executive Vice President, Head of Payer Solutions, enabling them to lead with focus, pace, and discipline. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-moving, complex environment where professionalism, sound judgment, confidentiality, and flexibility are essential. This is an opportunity to support a significant enterprise mandate as GreenShield advances its 2030 strategy and deepens its integrated Payer-Provider model.
Responsibilities
- Act as an extension of the EVP, helping translate strategic priorities into a disciplined operating rhythm across Payer.
- Coordinate Executive Committee, CEO and Board-related inputs, reports and presentations from initial request through final submission.
- Connect the EVP’s agenda to GreenShield’s 2030 strategy and the integrated Payer–Provider model by tracking priorities, dependencies, decision points and enterprise commitments.
- Support cross-functional work across Payer, Provider, Client Segments and enabling functions, surfacing trade-offs, escalation needs and gaps in follow-through.
- Attend selected meetings, capture decisions and actions, and maintain clear ownership through to completion.
- Build trusted working relationships with Executive Assistants, Payer leaders, Provider and Client Segment partners, and key enterprise stakeholders.
- Represent the EVP professionally and create a responsive, well-coordinated experience for internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain awareness of stakeholder expectations and organizational dynamics, helping the EVP engage the right people at the right time.
- Own the EVP’s complex calendar across the Payer leadership team, Executive Committee and key enterprise and external partners.
- Protect time for the highest-value strategic, operational and relationship priorities while preserving flexibility for emerging needs.
- Build in preparation, travel and follow-up time so the EVP is ready for decisions, presentations and stakeholder meetings.
- Maintain forward visibility of commitments, deadlines and decision points, resolving conflicts before they become barriers.
- Prepare and sequence the EVP’s materials for the day ahead, ensuring every meeting has the relevant context, pre-reads and decision points ready in advance.
- Draft and edit correspondence, presentations and leadership communications in the EVP’s voice.
- Synthesize complex information into clear messages, decisions, risks and next steps for executive audiences.
- Handle sensitive and time-critical communications with sound judgment, accuracy and discretion.
- Coordinate Payer leadership meetings, offsites and enterprise forums, including agendas, materials, logistics and follow-up.
- Work with leaders and partners to gather inputs, clarify decisions required and ensure materials are executive-ready.
- Maintain action and decision logs, track commitments and follow through with owners to keep priorities moving.
- Actively manage and organize the EVP’s inbox, surfacing time-sensitive decisions, strategic requests and emerging issues.
- Draft or coordinate responses, maintain an effective filing system and ensure commitments are captured and followed through.
- Keep the EVP current on schedule changes, stakeholder needs and items requiring attention or escalation.
- Organize domestic and occasional international travel, including itineraries, accommodations, transportation and meeting logistics.
- Anticipate schedule changes and ensure the EVP has the information and materials required while travelling.
- Manage expense reports, procurement, consultant agreements and related administrative requirements accurately and on time.
- Operate with a high degree of independence, anticipating needs, making sound decisions and moving work forward without waiting for direction.
- Adapt to changing priorities and provide reasonable flexibility outside standard hours when urgent business needs arise.
Requirements
- Post-secondary education or an equivalent combination of education and progressively senior administrative experience.
- Significant experience supporting a C-suite executive or comparably senior leader in a complex organization.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Demonstrated ability to work flexibly, manage changing deadlines and respond calmly to urgent priorities.
- Exceptional organization, prioritization and follow-through, with strong attention to detail.
- Proficiency in English is required for this position.
- Ability to communicate with colleagues or customers who use English as their primary language.
Skills
- Anticipation & Problem-Solving
- Relationship Management
- Operational Discipline
- Discretion & Confidentiality
- Business Acumen
- Adaptability
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Modern collaboration and productivity tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prepare polished executive materials
- Financial services experience is an asset
- Insurance experience is an asset
- Benefits administration experience is an asset
- Experience in another regulated environment is an asset
- Bilingualism in English and French is an asset
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Post-secondary education
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $51,383.00 - 79,261.00
About the Company
- GreenShield is a non-profit social enterprise that brings worlds of coverage and care together.
- Their mission is to create better health for all Canadians.
- They are noble challengers, purposefully building a better way.
- Their culture is one where everyone's voice is heard and valued.
- They dare to challenge the status quo and are driven by people who have challenged theirs.
- They believe that the workplace should empower employees to be the best version of themselves.
- They provide a place where employees can be inspired, challenged, and rewarded.
- They believe their people are critical to their overall success.
- Inclusivity makes them a stronger, smarter, and more informed organization.
- Being intentionally inclusive of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enhances their company culture.
- A career at GreenShield isn’t just about personal achievements, it's about making a difference together.
Equal Opportunity
- GS supports diversity, equity and inclusion in our teams and communities, and we value the unique contributions made by all.
- We encourage applications from all candidates and will accommodate needs under human rights legislation throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
- Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
