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About the Role

As a key member of the Distribution Strategy team for Personal Banking and Imperial Service, you’ll help shape the strategy and priorities for CIBC’s banking centre and advisor channels. You will lead high-priority strategic and financial management work that supports growth, productivity, and stronger client and advisor experiences. This role connects channel strategy with portfolio-level insights and investment decisions, identifies opportunities, and develops data-driven recommendations for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and evolution of strategies for CIBC’s banking centre and advisor channels.
Connect client, market, operational, and financial insights to identify growth and productivity opportunities, establish strategic priorities, and inform multi-year roadmaps.
Lead rigorous financial and quantitative assessments of priority initiatives.
Apply consistent methodologies, assumptions, tools, and benchmarks to evaluate expected benefits, test the reasonableness of estimates, and strengthen the quality and credibility of investment decisions.
Establish an integrated view of the Banking Centre Distribution & Mass Affluent portfolio, including expected and realized benefits, efficiencies, capacity, key performance indicators, and strategic outcomes.
Translate portfolio-level insights into recommendations that support prioritization, sequencing, and resourcing decisions.
Partner effectively with Crew Leads, Product Owners, Squads, Finance, Technology, and other Centres of Excellence.
Provide strategic and financial expertise, constructive challenge, and decision support while maintaining clear accountabilities across teams.
Synthesize complex financial, strategic, and operational information into clear, compelling narratives.
Develop executive materials that articulate the opportunity, supporting evidence, options, trade-offs, recommendations, and expected impact.
Provide thought leadership across strategic and financial management priorities.
Help strengthen the Centre of Excellence’s capabilities, ways of working, and shared knowledge.

Requirements

Bring 6 to 9 years of experience in strategy, management consulting, financial management, corporate development, or a related field, ideally within financial services.
Have a strong track record of developing strategies, assessing complex opportunities, and translating analysis into measurable business outcomes.
Have a degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field.
Enjoy investigating complex and ambiguous problems, bringing structure and clarity to uncertainty, and transforming insights into practical recommendations.
Can develop and assess financial models, test assumptions, and evaluate the benefits, costs, risks, and trade-offs associated with investment decisions.
Can navigate a complex matrix organization, understand different stakeholder perspectives, and build alignment across senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Influence outcomes with confidence, sound judgment, and strong communication.
Have experience developing and implementing strategic team goals.
Have experience coaching employees and inspiring successful team performance.
Have advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel and can develop high-quality executive materials and robust financial and analytical models.
Bring high standards, genuine care to your relationships, and want to grow with an employer that shares your values and brings out your best.
Be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified.
May be asked to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test.

Skills

Analytical Thinking
Analytics
Benefits Strategy
Business Effectiveness
Business Processes
Business Storytelling
Client Strategy
Communication
Critical Thinking
Customer Experience (CX)
Data Storytelling
Digital Storytelling
Financial Products
Leadership
Long Term Planning
Portfolio Governance
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Monitoring
Portfolio Optimization
Portfolio Reporting
Presentation Storytelling
Project Management
Quantitative Analysis
Strategic Objectives
Data Visualization
Artificial Intelligence-enabled productivity tools

Location

Toronto

Work Type

Hybrid
Regular
Full-time

Experience Level

6-9 years

Education Level

Degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field
MBA, CFA, CPA, or other relevant advanced degree or professional designation is an asset

Benefits

Competitive salary
Incentive pay
Banking benefits
Benefits program
Defined benefit pension plan
Employee share purchase plan
Vacation offering
Wellbeing support
MomentMakers recognition program
Purpose Day (paid day off for growth and development)

About the Company

CIBC is building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world.
At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work.
Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.
The Distribution Strategy team supports the Banking Centre Distribution & Mass Affluent domain and is part of the Portfolio Value & Financial Management Centre of Excellence.

Equal Opportunity

CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong.
We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience.
We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process.