Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Manager, Performance Insights

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $130K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in business and performance management, preferably at RBC or similar organizations
  • Proven track record in consulting, establishing trusted advisor relationships and delivering actionable insights
  • Ability to create executive-ready content that's clear and impactful, with advanced skills in data visualization
  • Strong business and financial acumen with a high level of analytical rigor
  • Experience in project management within small teams while influencing wider stakeholder groups
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills to manage complex stakeholder relationships
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and defining work efforts to meet objectives

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of performance metrics and oversee the planning for dashboard creation
  • Define and evolve metrics for effective performance representation across service efficiency and quality
  • Drive the roadmap for dashboard enhancements and secure alignment across operational teams
  • Consult on performance improvement opportunities and support business reviews with key insights
  • Systematize the integration of data and metrics to support management routines utilizing AI and automation
  • Leverage diverse data sources to create new performance insights and metrics
  • Act as a strategic storyteller, presenting metrics and insights to senior leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leadership for professional development through coaching
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact within the organization
  • Collaborative and high-performing team environment
  • Exposure to senior executives across various departments
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Senior Manager, Performance Insights, Transformation & Enterprise Operations (TEO), leads the development of new metrics and insights that enable performance improvement across TEO.

Our goal is to drive continuous improvement in our Operations and this requires continuous improvement in our measurement system: developing new metrics, enhancing existing metrics, and driving the roadmap to improve how we measure performance across our operations centres. As the TEO Transformation Office (TTO), our responsibility is in developing a consistent standard methodology, leveraging best practices, that cut across our TEO operations centres, enabling leadership to make data-driven decisions and enabling our team to deliver on our strategic ambitions.

The role will consult and advise on business performance improvement opportunities, including service levels, quality, efficiency, and resiliency. You will be a key member of the TEO Transformation Office (TTO) team, which is accountable for TEO strategy and communications, automation, business performance insights, and data and AI strategy.

TEO is comprised of both vertical operations centres (Payments & Trade Operations, Cash Services, and Finance Shared Services) & horizontal transformation teams, TEO delivers on RBC's Brand of trust by efficiently managing the movement of money & driving innovation to enable T&O.

This role requires 4 days in office with 1 remote day to help foster a collaborative work environment.

What will you do?
  • As the Performance Insights lead, you will have direct accountability for the metrics we produce and oversight for dashboard development planning and roadmap, including:
    • Define and evolve the metrics that best represent performance across our balanced scorecard: Service Levels, Efficiency, Accuracy, and Resiliency
    • Drive a roadmap of development and change for our dashboards, including securing buy-in and alignment across our operating centres, and planning for metric evolution as we adopt more AI solutions into our processes
    • Partner, and act as the "glue", with our Operations Centres and Transformation teams across TEO to facilitate an efficient and effective process to produce an integrated view of TEO performance with valuable insights for leadership
    • Consult/advise on performance improvement opportunities across each line of business in TEO, including support for the monthly Management Business Reviews (MBRs) to ensure business performance is well understood, and that teams are enabled with key trends and insights
  • Further systematize how we integrate data, information, and metrics to support our management routines, including adoption of AI (leveraging RBC Assist Pro where possible), automation, tooling, and streamlining of processes
  • Leverage additional data sources, including Financials, App Dev capital investment portfolio, headcount data, risk data, and others, to develop new metrics and insights
  • Act as a strategic storyteller for TEO's operational performance, presenting metrics, insights, and risk across a variety of audiences (T&O leadership, TEO SMT, etc.) including authoring the narrative for senior leadership reviews such as Business Review Documents (BRDs) to support discussion, decisions and tangible management actions.
  • As part of the Business & Performance Management team, support additional business management responsibilities as needed, including contributing to special projects, operational coordination, and cross-functional initiatives to ensure alignment with leadership priorities and organizational goals.


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:
  • 5+ years of business and performance management experience within RBC or in a similar setting, with demonstrated experience improving measurement systems
  • Experience in Consulting (internal or external to RBC), or similar roles, including developing 'trusted advisor' relationships, delivering new insights and advice, leading to management actions and results
  • Demonstrated ability to create and deliver executive-ready content: high-quality, clear, concise, and impactful content, with advanced proficiency in visual storytelling with data
  • High level of business and financial acumen
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous situations, scoping out work efforts to bring clarity to work effort needed to achieve desired outcomes
  • Analytical rigour - able to break down complex problems, synthesize information and use data to inform decisions and strategy development
  • Project management and execution experience, especially in defining and executing deliverables in a small team, but with impact and influence across large stakeholder groups
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to develop and nurture strong relationships at every level of the organization, including managing complex stakeholder relationships


Nice-to-have
  • Dashboard design and/or development experience, preferably with Tableau
  • Technical skills including ability to extract, transform, and analyze large data sets, with SQL, Python, and advanced excel functions, and synthesize information into executive ready summary
  • MBA, or similar education
  • MBA, or similar education
  • Experience with Agile ways of working, and tooling, including JIRA and Confluence
  • Experience developing Technology & Operations strategy, business process reengineering, and/or capacity/resource planning
  • Experience in Enterprise Operations


What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in an agile, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • The opportunity to interface with senior level executives from many different parts of the organization


Job Skills
Big Data Analytics, Critical Thinking, Data Administration, Data Mining, Data Modeling, Data Movement, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, Quantitative Research, Research Documents

Additional Job Details

Address:

180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-03

Application Deadline:

2026-07-17
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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