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Help shape Canada's future and create meaningful impact by joining Deloitte's dynamic Future of Canada Centre (FCC) team!

What will your typical day look like?

As Director, you will lead Deloitte Canada's Future of Canada Centre (FCC) research and public policy functions, setting the strategic agenda, shaping flagship thought leadership, and ensuring the Centre delivers high-impact insights to support policy discourse.
This role sits at the intersection of research excellence, policy insight, and commercialization, translating emerging economic, regulatory, and societal trends into actionable perspectives for our country, clients and firm.

1. Strategic leadership & agenda setting
   • Oversee day-to-day operations, including project prioritization, resourcing, and execution across the research and policy teams
   • Define and execute the FCC's integrated research and policy agenda, aligned with Deloitte Canada's strategic priorities
   • Identify priority issues, emerging risks, and high-value research opportunities through proactive market sensing
   • Advise senior leadership (including the Chief Relationship Officer and FCC Co-Chair) on strategic positioning, themes, and progress on key priorities
2. Research & policy leadership
   • Position FCC as a leading national voice on economic and policy issues through consistent, high-quality outputs
   • Oversee development, design, and publication of high-impact, market-facing thought leadership and flagship research (including surveys, data acquisition, large-scale reports)
   • Provide editorial oversight to ensure narrative coherence, analytical rigor, and methodological consistency across all research and policy products
   • Offer expert guidance on policy analysis across domains (e.g., geopolitics, economic and defence policy, industrial strategy, regulatory developments)
   • Personally contribute to key deliverables, including authoring flagship reports and op-eds as needed, and demonstrate comfort engaging with live audiences and media.
3. Commercialization & impact
   • Develop and implement commercialization strategies for FCC research, linking insights to country, firm and client priorities
   • Partner with client account teams and industry leaders to embed FCC insights into business development and client engagements
   • Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the reach, influence, and commercial impact of FCC outputs
   • Work closely with Deloitte's marketplace and communications teams to shape internal and external messaging around FCC insights and ensure alignment between research outputs, brand positioning, and broader firm priorities
4. Stakeholder engagement & external relations
   • Present research findings to senior stakeholders across business, government, and academia
   • Build and maintain relationships with internal and external thought leaders, policymakers, and institutional partners
   • Represent Deloitte in public forums, roundtables, and media engagements as needed

About the team

The Future of Canada Centre (FCC) is Deloitte's thought leadership and public policy program. We facilitate an exploration of new ideas, viewpoints, and insights about our country's most important national issues. Our goal is to help propel Canada into a new age of growth and competitiveness. We are known for new and unique points of view and policy-analysis excellence. Our work supports and represents Deloitte's purpose of making an impact that matters and advances the public interest.

The FCC has two intertwined focuses in service of our firm, our clients, and the country. We develop and mobilize original research that provides insights for businesses, governments, organizations, and Canadians on a broad spectrum of topics. And we share public policy perspectives across the firm and develop and advance policy positions on priority issues.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

Required: You are someone who is/has:

• Undergraduate or Graduate degree with outstanding academic credentials (preferably in economics or public policy)
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in government, politics, government relations, consulting and/or corporate strategy
• Experience managing diverse, hybrid teams
• Demonstrated ability to build, maintain and leverage strategic networks
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership of cross functional projects and teams
• Proven analytical skills and systematic problem solving
• Superior verbal and written communication skills and executive presence, with demonstrated experience communicating to a C-Suite target audience
• Ability to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills and demonstrated ability to work with others effectively across teams

Nice to haves:

• Proficiency in French

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $260,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.