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About the Role

The Vice President, Enterprise Transformation is a senior leader accountable for delivering strategic initiatives that shape how Aviva Canada evolves, grows, and serves customers. This role involves setting the standard for delivery excellence and providing direction across Aviva’s change portfolio.

Responsibilities

Lead the Change Practice and Business Partnering teams, including performance, capability building, stakeholder alignment, change readiness, and delivery support.
Chair the Change Investment Steer Co, driving prioritization, funding decisions, affordability, capital trade-offs, and investment sequencing across a $100–200 M enterprise change portfolio.
Spearhead portfolio performance management, including financials, resources, delivery health, risk exposure, milestones, benefits forecast vs. actuals, and dependency tracking to enable fact-based governance, early escalation, and course correction.
Establish consistent portfolio routines, scorecards, thresholds, and recovery plans so performance issues are visible, owned, and resolved before they impact strategic outcomes.
Drive disciplined business cases and value assurance, partnering with Finance and sponsors to validate assumptions and hold benefit owners accountable for delivery.
Provide executive-level reporting that clarifies progress, risks, trade-offs, outcomes, and competing priorities for C-suite stakeholders.
Navigate complex stakeholder environments, resolving friction, influencing without authority, and creating clarity through ambiguity.
Steward vendor relationships for contract and flexible resource pools — negotiating capacity, SLAs and performance metrics to maintain scalable delivery capability.
Lead the annual Roadmap Refresh, translating enterprise strategy and external market insight into a prioritized three-year change plan.
Enforce governance, risk, and issue-management standards while balancing pace with control, compliance, and operational resilience in a regulated environment.
Set delivery standards, coach talent, embed best practices, and build succession depth across the transformation function.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, technology, project management) or equivalent experience.
Professional certification in project, program, or change management (e.g. PMP, MSP, PRINCE2, Prosci) preferred.
Accounting designation preferred, with CPA or equivalent financial qualification considered an asset.
Significant leadership experience driving large-scale transformation, modernization, and organizational change initiatives.
Proven ability to lead large transformation portfolios, prioritize investments, manage funding trade-offs, and deliver measurable enterprise outcomes.
Skilled at translating complex data, risks, and trade-offs into clear decisions for C-suite stakeholders and governance forums.
Expertise in dashboards, scorecards, baselines, thresholds, delivery health, financials, resources, forecasting, dependency tracking, benefits realization, and translating insight into executive action.
Strong capability in business cases, affordability, Finance validation, benefit ownership, and value realization.
Experience leading transformation with strong controls, issue management, compliance awareness, and operational resilience.
Track record building delivery and business analysis capability, setting standards, coaching talent, and strengthening succession pipelines.
Ability to align stakeholders, assess readiness, and enable adoption across business units and functions.
Skilled in negotiating contracts, SLAs and performance metrics with third-party providers to maintain scalable and flexible delivery capacity.
Strong people-leadership skills, identifying high potentials, crafting development pathways, and mentoring future leaders at scale.
Experience driving annual roadmap refresh processes, translating enterprise strategy into a coherent three-year change plan with measurable outcomes.
Brings industry trends, benchmarks, emerging practices, and technology-enabled change into enterprise prioritization.
Decisive, commercial, resilient, collaborative, and trusted at executive level; able to inspire pace, quality, and ownership.

Skills

Strategic Portfolio Leadership
Executive Influence
Performance Management Rigor
Financial Stewardship & Benefits Discipline
Governance, Risk & Regulatory Acumen
Change Practice Leadership
Business Partnering
Vendor & Resource Management
Talent Development & Succession Planning
Roadmap & Change Strategy
External Perspective
Leadership Style

Location

Canada

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Leader
Significant leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, technology, project management) or equivalent experience
Professional certification in project, program, or change management (e.g. PMP, MSP, PRINCE2, Prosci) preferred
Accounting designation preferred, with CPA or equivalent financial qualification considered an asset.

Salary/Compensations

Competitive executive compensation package, including annual incentive opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive pension and retirement savings programs.
Industry-leading health and wellness benefits.
Professional development and executive leadership opportunities.
Inclusive employee resource groups and diversity initiatives.
Volunteer opportunities and community impact programs.
Competitive vacation and wellness offerings.

About the Company

Together, we are Aviva.
Our values of Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence shape a culture of inclusion, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Equal Opportunity

Aviva Canada welcomes applications from all qualified individuals and provides accommodations throughout hiring and employment. If you require accommodation, contact your Aviva Talent Acquisition Partner.