Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Manager, Distribution Strategy

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in corporate strategy, consulting, product strategy, or financial service transformations
  • Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
  • Experience leading strategy projects end-to-end
  • Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
  • Strong skills in business modelling and financial statement analysis
  • Effective communicator with executive presentation abilities
  • Preferred expertise in Distribution, Channels, or Digital Transformation

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement the distribution strategy for Personal Banking
  • Create sub-strategies to operationalize the overarching vision
  • Conduct strategic reviews and analyses to provide recommendations
  • Align strategies with business priorities and DPD leadership
  • Utilize industry benchmarks and market trends to inform decisions
  • Analyze client and advisor behaviors to challenge assumptions
  • Provide leadership on distribution, channels, and digitization initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Career growth through coaching, mentorship, and impactful projects
  • Opportunity to shape the future of banking positively impacting clients and communities
  • Collaborate with a high-performing team that values innovation and diversity
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the Opportunity?
Join RBC as a visionary leader shaping the future of banking in a Digital-First era. As the Senior Manager, Distribution Strategy, you will support the development of distribution and channel strategies for Digital & Personal Distribution (DPD). You will create structured analyses, research and executive materials that inform strategic decisions across physical, digital and remote channels.

What will you do?
  • Develop and advance Distribution strategy for Personal Banking, grounded in client needs, economics & market dynamics
  • Develop and maintain sub-strategies (channel, segment, journey, role) to operationalize the vision and guide execution teams.
  • Perform comprehensive strategic reviews and analyses leveraging frameworks, approaches, tools and methodologies and develop robust recommendations to support DPD Leadership
  • Ensure strategies are well developed, articulated and aligned across businesses and with DPD and PB priorities
  • Leverage global peer benchmarks, adjacent industries, fintechs, and emerging distribution models to inform strategy
  • Analyze client and advisor behaviour and market trends to challenge internal assumptions
  • Provide thought leadership on distribution, channels, digitization, productivity and the evolving role of channels
  • Frame strategic options, trade-offs and recommendations for senior leadership on channel roles, investment priorities and pacing of change
  • Proactively, develop fact bases, business cases, and scenario analyses to identify benefits including revenue streams and/or cost savings opportunities
  • Lead work end-to-end exhibiting complete 'ownership' of the problem, continuously pushing the thinking, while managing stakeholders, junior team members, timelines, and deliverables


What Do You Need to Succeed?
  • 2+ years in corporate strategy, consulting, product strategy, or large-scale transformations within Financial Services.
  • Strong problem structuring, hypothesis-driven thinking and analytical rigor
  • Experience leading strategy workstreams or projects end-to-end including stakeholder alignment and delivery of timelines/outputs
  • Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, Word
  • Strong analytics business modelling/business case development experience including high-level understanding of Financial Services financial statements
  • Strong written and oral executive presentation skills with presence to build credibility across organization
  • Expertise in Distribution, Channels, or Digital Transformation (preferred)


What's in it for you?
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, and stock where applicable
  • Work with leaders who invest in your growth through hands-on coaching, mentorship, and opportunities to take on challenging, high-impact projects
  • Join a team where your work directly shapes the future of banking, making a lasting impact on clients and communities.
  • Collaborate with a high-performing, progressive team that values innovation, diversity, and bold ideas


Job Skills
Commercial Acumen, Content Strategy Development, Decision Making, Product Development Methodology, Product Services, User Experience (UX) Design, User Experience (UX) Research, User Interface (UI) Design

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-02

Application Deadline:

2026-07-16
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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Join the dynamic team at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a global leader in financial services and a company committed to excellence and innovation. At RBC, we offer a wide range of job opportunities that empower professionals to shape their career paths with leadership, diversity training, and continuous growth.

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We believe in nurturing the potential of our employees through continuous learning and career development programs. At RBC, you will find endless opportunities to grow professionally through on-the-job experiences, formal training programs, and leadership development initiatives. Our commitment to innovation means we are constantly seeking out new ideas and perspectives, making RBC a perfect place for those who aim to lead and innovate.

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