Senior Consultant, Strategy, Sunlife Health

Location: Calgary, Alberta

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Sunlife Health brings together the scale of a mature group benefits business with the pace and innovation of digital health. The Sunlife Health Strategy team focuses on the questions that shape what comes next: where to play, what to build, and how to grow.

As Senior Consultant, you'll take an ambiguous strategic question, turn it into a clear plan of attack, find the answer, and engage senior leaders and decision makers to deliver results. Additionally, you will run the monthly strategy reporting cycle to monitor progress of our biggest priorities and distribute updates directly to the Health leadership team, and ultimately to the President of Sunlife Canada. You'll report to the Director, Strategy, who will act as your coach and thought partner, and work closely with peers across Sunlife Health teams.

What will you do?

Planning and sharing strategy: You’ll help shape and communicate the overall Sunlife Health strategy at key points during the annual planning cycle. This includes:

Preparing materials that frame strategic discussions and decisions at leadership offsites

Developing executive-ready strategy content for presentation to the CEO and the Board

Building town hall and team materials to cascade the strategy to employees at every level

Leading strategy work: Most of your time goes into the strategic questions that shape our business. You’ll take each from a vague question to a recommendation leaders act on.

Frame the problem. Work out what the real question is, then break a complex or vague problem into specific, answerable questions and testable hypotheses.

Find the evidence. Plan how to answer each question. Gather research and data, judge which sources are credible, and build analyses in Excel with sound statistical basics.

Find the insight. Separate insight from information. When you see a gap or a pattern, dig until you understand it.

Bring stakeholders along. Build trusted relationships with leaders and partners across the business. Learn what each one needs, involve them early, and keep them informed.

Make the case. Write concise, structured documents and slides for executive readers, and present them with confidence.

Run the work. Plan and deliver workstreams on time, and keep your leaders and stakeholders updated on progress without being asked.

Running the monthly strategy reporting cycle: For the second week of each month, you'll make sure the President of Sunlife Canada sees an accurate, clear picture of how each strategic initiative is tracking.

Collectand check metrics for each strategic initiative from metric owners across teams, ensuring accuracy such that figures line up across reports and time periods.

Find the insight. Look independently at everything at your disposal to spot patterns, risks, and what's driving them.

Get the story. When a metric is off track, ask the owner why and how it will recover, offering problem-solving support and refining commentary for clarity and brevity.

Send concise, scannable review emails to Vice Presidents and the Senior Vice President, ahead of the report reaching the President.

Each quarter, you'll also prepare briefing notes that give deeper insight into the areas they care most about. From time to time, expect ad hoc requests, such as adding new metrics or gathering leaders' candid view of where the year will end.

What does success look like in the first year?

By month 3: You own a strategy workstream, have delivered a recommendation that helps a senior leader make a decision, and you’ve co-run three monthly reporting cycles

By month 6: Some of your recommendations have shaped Sunlife Health priorities, such as where to invest, what to build, or which partners to pursue, and you own the reporting cycle end-to-end, including the quarterly briefing notes

By month 12: Leaders start bringing new questions to you first, you’ve built a working depth in 1-2 new domains, and VPs in the Health leadership team trust the numbers and commentary you send

What do you need to succeed?

3+ years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or another analytical, problem-solving role

Structured, hypothesis-driven problem solving, shown through real work you can walk us through

Strong Excel skills, clean modelling habits, and a working grasp of basic statistics

Clear, concise writing and slide-building for senior audiences, with an eye for detail, coupled with strong verbal communication and presentation skills

Organizational skills and habits to manage several parallel workstream

Initiative and judgment to work independently and drive towards solutions

As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

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What will be nice to have

Experience in a strategy consulting firm

Exposure to group benefits, insurance, healthcare, or digital health

A degree in business, economics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

What’s in it for you?

We’re proud to be a Best Workplace for Hybrid Work by Great Place to Work® Canada

Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family.

Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to [email protected].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range

85,000/85 000 - 128,000/128 000

Job Category

Business Development - Non Actuarial

Posting End Date

11/11/2026

Additional Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Vancouver, British Columbia, Montreal, Quebec, Waterloo, Ontario