Director, Project Management, HR Integration (Contract) - SLC Management

Sun Life Financial, Inc.

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

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in project/program management, especially with enterprise integrations and HR transformations.
  • Ability to create and manage comprehensive project plans with executive-level reporting across multiple streams.
  • Experience in HR process design, HRIS delivery, and applying automation to enhance processes.
  • Proficiency with Workday and experience in data conversion and payroll considered an asset.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and relevant certifications (PMP, Scrum/Agile) preferred.
  • Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills with various business units.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication abilities in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain integrated project plans with key milestones and deliverables.
  • Coordinate execution of activities across HR integration workstreams to ensure alignment.
  • Manage weekly program status meetings; prepare materials and dashboards for reporting.
  • Partner with other directors to address implications and recommend solutions during change initiatives.
  • Create standardized documentation and guidance materials for workstream leads.
  • Conduct gap analysis and develop recommendations for process and system changes.
  • Support legacy system transitions, focusing on data integrity and governance during cutover activities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager.
  • Excellent wellness programs supporting mental, physical, and financial well-being.
  • Generous vacation and sick time, with a strong maternity and parental leave program.
  • Flexible work environment with a collaborative and inclusive culture.
  • Potential for diverse career paths with extensive networking opportunities.
  • Award-winning workplace culture recognized by Great Place to Work® and other institutions.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Director, Program Management, HR Integration (Contract) - SLC Management

What is in it for you:

This is a temporary full-time 18-month contract position.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Talent and Strategic initiatives, the Director, Program Management, HR Integration is accountable for the project management & integration planning of an asset-management-aligned HR digital platform consolidating 5 legacy platforms into a single system, while redesigning HR processes end-to-end for SLC's multi-business operating model. This role will ensure project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and deliverables remain on track across all people and HR technology integration workstreams, identifying risks and issues early and supporting resolution.

What you will do:

Program Planning & Execution
  • Develop and maintain integrated project plans establishing milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risk, issue and decisions. Coordinate work across HR, Technology, Payroll, Finance, vendors, and implementation partners.
  • Coordinate execution activities across all HR integration workstreams.
  • Manage weekly program / project status meeting - prepare materials & agendas, Create project dashboards and executive reporting. Prepare steering committee materials.
  • Partner with the Director, HR Program Delivery to understand and flag broader implications, change planning and communication. Bring forward recommendations to address.


Process Design and Implementation
  • Create standardized documentation and guidance materials for workstream leads
  • Support / Lead specific process design activities. Facilitate/Support working sessions and ensure robust documentation of outcomes and actions. Follow up with workstream leads and stakeholders.
  • Conduct process, system and employee impact, change and gap analysis and assessments, develop summaries, create recommendations. Connect with stakeholders across integration streams.
  • Document business requirements, recommendations, and implement decisions. Support translation of business requirements into technical requirements partnering with the digital solutions team.


Data and System Integration
  • Partner with DBTS/HR Shared Services on integration dependencies, employee data conversion, validation, testing and cutover activities ensuring rigorous data governance.
  • Support legacy system transition & decommission planning- gap analysis, issue logs, recommendations.


What you need to succeed:
  • 8+ years of progressive project/program management experience, ideally including complex enterprise or M&A integrations, HR transformation or HR technology delivery.
  • Proven ability to build integrated plans, manage milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and executive-level reporting across multiple workstreams.
  • Experience in HR process design and HRIS delivery with strong understanding of how automation, workflow tools, data and AI can be applied to simplify HR processes, improve employee experience and reduce operational risk
  • Workday, data conversion, testing, cutover, payroll or shared services experience considered an asset.
  • Experience applying Agile project management practices; PMP, Scrum/Agile or similar certification considered an asset.
  • Strong relationship building, stakeholder management and facilitation skills with senior leaders, HR, Technology, Finance, vendors and implementation partners.
  • Excellent communication, analytical, documentation and problem-solving skills;
  • Ability to bring structure to ambiguity in a matrixed environment, identify practical options, and develop creative solutions to complex integration, process and technology challenges


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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