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About the Role
The Strategic Planning & Alignment Lead serves as a strategic partner within Global Security, collaborating with senior decision-makers across RBC. This role focuses on translating executive vision into clear strategic outcomes and ensuring alignment across cybersecurity initiatives. The position acts as a catalyst for strategic execution excellence, emphasizing the journey from vision to measurable results while positioned outside delivery teams and decision-making authorities to provide objective strategic oversight.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Senior Management Team (SMT) to clearly define and articulate strategic outcomes, success criteria, and organizational alignments for Global Security initiatives
- Facilitate strategic planning sessions to ensure initiatives are properly scoped, prioritized, and linked to RBC's cybersecurity strategy
- Coach senior leaders on effective articulation of strategic intent and expected outcomes
- Establish and track key strategic milestones across Global Security initiatives
- Monitor progress against strategic objectives and report on status to leadership
- Ensure transparency in initiative status and strategic outcomes through regular reporting
- Maintain strategic dashboards and executive-level status reports
- Develop and maintain strategic initiative frameworks, governance processes, and decision-making protocols
- Coordinate PI- planning cross-functional planning events and stakeholder engagement activities
- Ensure clear strategic commitments and accountabilities are established and documented
- Create and maintain strategic documentation that links vision to execution, including strategic roadmaps and outcome frameworks
- Coach teams on strategic thinking, initiative management, and alignment best practices
- Communicate strategic progress and outcomes to diverse stakeholders across RBC
- Drive adoption of strategic enablement practices across Global Security departments
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in strategic planning, program management within cybersecurity or technology
- Experience working directly with senior leadership to define strategic outcomes and secure commitments
- Strong background in strategic tracking, milestone management, and progress monitoring
- Experience in cybersecurity, financial services, or large-scale technology environments
- Strong capability to guide teams on effectively managing and prioritizing backlogs to ensure alignment with business goals
- Experience training teams on creating, editing, and organizing pages for sprint planning, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing in Confluence
- Excellent technical and business acumen, must be comfortable presenting to a broad range of stakeholders
- Change Management certification
- Previous banking experience
- PMP
Skills
- Agile Methodology
- Agile Product Development
- Agile Software Development
- Change Management
- Coaching Others
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Facilitation
- Time Management
Location
- 16 YORK ST:TORONTO
- Toronto
- Canada
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
Benefits
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
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.