Senior Advisor, Business strategies

Desjardins • Montreal, QC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a senior business strategy advisor, you help develop plans and business intelligence; monitor business plans and performance; set targets; identify opportunities to improve service delivery; and design and deliver business strategies and solutions aligned with the business architecture of various initiatives, including the organizational transformation and shift. You lead and influence development projects and complex, highly innovative strategic initiatives involving multiple sectors. You help develop and recommend strategic directions and business positions. Your initiatives require extensive knowledge of your field. You make recommendations on the planning and execution of operationally and conceptually complex projects and initiatives that require comprehensive analysis and understanding of the organization and line of business. Coordination is critical, so you frequently interact with stakeholders working in a wide range of other fields. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential. You serve as expert advisor and subject matter expert, as well as resource person and coach for senior management and decision-making bodies. More specifically, you will be required to: Support the immediate supervisor by helping with work organization, operational planning and special initiatives Develop, implement and track the unit’s action plan, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic orientations and other administrative units, in a performance management context Establish management and communication practices that support change management, talent attraction and retention, skills development, employee engagement, and diversity in keeping with Desjardins values Define and ensure the implementation of activities related to the unit’s services and ensure entrusted projects are carried through so as to maximize targeted business results and ensure member and client satisfaction Support the administrative unit’s action plan by successfully managing individual and team performance Continuously improve the management of processes under your responsibility Promote Desjardins Group’s cooperative values Represent the organization and conduct business intelligence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• A minimum of eight years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of French is required
• Business insight
• Decision quality
• Develops talent
• Drive results
• Engagement
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Persuades
• Strategic mindset
• Teams
• Work processes

Nice To Haves

• Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Responsibilities

• Support the immediate supervisor by helping with work organization, operational planning and special initiatives
• Develop, implement and track the unit’s action plan, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic orientations and other administrative units, in a performance management context
• Establish management and communication practices that support change management, talent attraction and retention, skills development, employee engagement, and diversity in keeping with Desjardins values
• Define and ensure the implementation of activities related to the unit’s services and ensure entrusted projects are carried through so as to maximize targeted business results and ensure member and client satisfaction
• Support the administrative unit’s action plan by successfully managing individual and team performance
• Continuously improve the management of processes under your responsibility
• Promote Desjardins Group’s cooperative values
• Represent the organization and conduct business intelligence

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
• Group insurance including telemedicine
• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior