Director, HR Program Delivery - SLC Management

Sun Life Financial, Inc.

$110K — $150K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in HR, organizational transformation, business operations, or consulting
  • Strong preference for consulting background in strategy, HR transformation, or change management
  • Proven PMO/program management experience in cross-functional transformations
  • Deep understanding of core HR disciplines like org design and workforce planning
  • Exceptional communication and influencing skills, particularly with senior leadership
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information for executive audiences
  • Bachelor's degree required, MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred

Responsibilities

  • Drive enterprise-wide transformation initiatives to enhance organizational effectiveness
  • Develop and manage an integrated transformation roadmap with key milestones and dependencies
  • Monitor progress and proactively manage risks to keep projects aligned with objectives
  • Oversee transformation reporting for status updates and executive communications
  • Lead change management strategies, including stakeholder assessments and training plans
  • Address resistance and ensure successful cultural integration during transitions
  • Support workforce planning related to transformation initiatives

Benefits

  • Generous vacation and sick leave policies
  • Market-leading maternity, parental, and adoption leave top-up program
  • Employer-matched pension, stock, and savings programs for financial security
  • Flexible work environment with a collaborative and inclusive culture
  • Opportunities for diverse career paths and networking
  • Recognized workplace culture with multiple awards for excellence in employee engagement and mental health support
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Director, HR Program Delivery - SLC Management

What is in it for you:

Reporting directly to the Head of HR, the Program Delivery Lead is accountable for planning, coordinating, and driving the execution of enterprise-wide people transformation initiatives. Working across senior leadership teams and cross-functional stakeholders, the Program Delivery Lead will drive alignment, mitigate risks, enable decision-making, and ensure the successful delivery and adoption of transformation outcomes that support business objectives, organizational effectiveness, and employee experience.

What you will do:

Drive Transformation Efforts
  • Work closely with SLC HRBP & COE leaders across the platform to build and maintain the integrated transformation roadmap, milestones, dependencies, and governance model
  • Track progress, surface risks and issues early, and drive decisions to keep the program on track
  • Own transformation reporting: status updates, executive dashboards, steering committee materials
  • Coordinate workstream leads across org design, process harmonization, systems/technology, culture, and people transition, ensuring consistent execution standards
  • Lead change management strategy: stakeholder impact assessments, communications planning, training/enablement, and adoption measurement
  • Anticipate resistance points across merging entities and build mitigation plans tailored to different cultures and legacy structures
  • Support workforce planning and transition activities tied to transformation initiatives together with HR, COEs, and business leaders where needed
  • Navigate competing priorities and differing organizational cultures with diplomacy and influence, without formal authority
  • Act as an escalation point for issues that require leadership-level visibility or intervention


Head of HR support
  • Act as a trusted advisor and execution arm to the leader, helping to deliver strategic priorities, decisions, and messaging
  • Prepare briefing materials, executive presentations, and key support materials on behalf of leadership
  • Serve as a key liaison between the HR leadership team, and cross-functional partners (Business, Finance, IT, Legal, Communications)
  • Represent the Head of HR in select HR forums, ensuring continuity and follow-up on commitments
  • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across all entities


What you need to succeed:
  • 8+ years of progressive experience spanning HR, organizational transformation, business operations, or management consulting
  • Prior consulting background strongly preferred (e.g., strategy, HR transformation, change management, org design)
  • Demonstrated PMO/program management experience on large-scale, cross-functional transformations, ideally including M&A integration or entity consolidation
  • Strong grounding in core HR disciplines: org design, workforce planning, change management, talent
  • Executive presence with the ability to build credibility quickly with C-suite and senior leaders
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills across matrixed, multi-entity environments
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complexity into clear executive narratives
  • Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with disciplined execution
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or relevant graduate degree a plus


The base salary range for this Director-level role is $110,000-$150,000 CAD.

The upper end of the posted range reflects compensation levels applicable to Senior Director roles.

Why SLC Management?
  • Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager
  • Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being - mental, physical and financial - including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program, a partially-paid sabbatical program and much more
  • Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
  • A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development #WeWinAsATeam
  • The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
  • Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S., "Best Places to Work" by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, "Best Places to Work in Money Management" by Pension & Investments


SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees. Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.

Job Category:

Human Resources
Salary Range
110,000/110 000 - 180,000/180 000

We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits.

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