Managing Director, Enterprise Integration & MEP Program Delivery (Contract) – SLC Management

Sun Life • Waterloo, ON

3d • CA$140,000 - CA$225,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a temporary full-time 18-month contract position. The Managing Director will provide program management leadership for SLC MEP and integration activities. The role is accountable for shaping the overall execution approach, aligning senior stakeholders, establishing governance discipline, coordinating cross-functional execution, and ensuring decisions, risks, dependencies, budgets, and execution priorities are managed with the transparency and rigor expected at an enterprise leadership level.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading complex enterprise execution, integrations, transactions, or transformation delivery in a matrixed environment.
• Strong delivery discipline, judgment, and ability to drive outcomes through influence, coordination, and structured follow-through.
• Demonstrated ability to turn priorities into executable plans, manage competing workstreams, resolve ambiguity, and keep teams focused on delivery milestones.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise status updates, action logs, decision materials, governance documents, and escalation summaries.
• Experience managing external advisors, budgets, scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, and execution-related issue resolution.
• Comfort operating across Finance, Tax, HR, Legal, Technology, Operations, transaction integration, operating model change, governance, and enterprise-wide implementation activities.
• Ability to identify execution risks, escalate clearly, and drive timely decisions in complex and sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and actively manage the integrated execution plan for SLC MEP and integration activities, including milestones, dependencies, owners, risks, sequencing, and decision points.
• Drive cross-functional delivery across Finance, HR, Tax, Legal, Technology, Operations, Risk, Change Management, business leaders, external advisors, and other stakeholders.
• Run disciplined operating rhythms, governance forums, status reviews, and escalation processes that keep workstreams moving and accountable.
• Track budgets, approvals, advisor scopes, deliverables, timelines, and forecasted spend, ensuring risks, overages, blockers, and unresolved issues are addressed promptly.
• Convert cross-functional inputs into clear action items, owner assignments, execution decisions, escalation matters, and progress updates for senior leadership.
• Maintain delivery momentum by removing roadblocks, resolving execution issues, enforcing accountability, and ensuring workstream outputs are completed to the required quality and timeline.

Benefits

• Generous vacation and sick time
• Market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program
• Partially-paid sabbatical program
• Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match
• Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed