Strategic Engagement Manager

Royal Bank of Canada•Toronto, ON

14d•$67,000 - $110,000

About The Position

What is the opportunity? To strengthen the horizontal coordination and execution capability of Data & Digital, the Strategic Engagement Manager bridges strategy and delivery, ensuring cross-domain alignment, vendor engagement support and solution implementation efficiency for the team. As a Strategic Engagement Manager, you'll prevent silos, ensure cross-functional alignment across enterprise initiatives, team initiatives and support vendor relationships. This is an opportunity to influence how the organization operates at scale—managing partnerships with key stakeholders, supporting solution alignment with strategy, advocating for efficiency in the team and enabling leadership with actionable insights. You'll be the connective tissue that translates strategic priorities into coordinated delivery and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in business analysis, product management, technology delivery, or related roles in data or technology.
Experience in financial services with understanding of compliance requirements and enterprise technology ecosystems.
Strong cross-functional coordination skills with proven ability to collaborate across domains.
Executive communication expertise ability to prepare business cases, dashboards, and executive-level content summarizing complex concepts.
Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into actionable insights and conduct cost-benefit analyses.
Bachelor's degree or relevant experience level.

Nice To Haves

Vendor due diligence exposure and experience managing strategic partnerships.
Project management experience
Knowledge of technical principles and technology transformation initiatives.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Coordinate engagements across Data & Digital execution teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and defining engagement frameworks.
Support strategic vendor relationships from a business perspective: from selection, onboarding, solutioning through performance tracking and risk management.
Support exploration and design for initiatives requiring involving multiple functions within the team (e.g., digital releases, vendor re-platforming, application decommission strategies).
Facilitate solution design discussions ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and strategic goals (e.g. aligning data strategy to enterprise)
Track initiatives health (timelines, risks, dependencies) and support issue resolution across execution teams.
Support leadership with dashboards, KPI/OKR reports, roadmap updates, and strategy documentation.
Identify areas for simplification, reuse, and consolidation and reduce duplication by building scalable frameworks that enable the team to operate more efficiently as demand grows.
Anticipate cross-team impacts and proactively coordinate to mitigate risks and align with long-term strategic priorities.

Benefits

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, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
Flexible work/life balance options.
Opportunities to do challenging work.
Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
Access to a variety of job opportunities across business.

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