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Out-of-Scope

Location: Regina (onsite)

The Successful candidate will be responsible for supporting SGI’s President & CEO, executive and Board of Directors in determining strategic direction, takes a lead role in ensuring the development of SGI’s long-term corporate strategy, annual corporate strategic plans and supporting business and divisional strategy development, ensuring alignment to shareholder priorities and consideration of risks in the business environment.

You will also be responsible for the selection, prioritization and control of SGI’s programs and projects, ensuring they align with strategic objectives. Including coordinating and leading key internal and external stakeholders to prioritize key corporate initiatives, including prioritization of change initiatives and initiatives identified for the maintenance and delivery of standard business operations, with a focus on optimizing return on investment.

Key Accountabilities

Note: This section is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities – other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

Corporate Strategy Planning & Development

• Develops and leads the corporate strategic planning process, including analysis of the operating environment, helping to define SGI’s strategic direction, communicating, and executing on that direction, and ensuring the realization of benefits.

• Oversees the design and maintenance of the corporate strategy, ensuring alignment with shareholder priorities, consideration of risks in the business environment and integration with budget, CEO and executive performance objectives, initiative prioritization and salary holdback plans.

• Participates on the Strategic Review Board to ensure strategic alignment, including evaluating and prioritizing project proposals and business cases, and providing direction for next steps.

• Leads preparation of agenda and content planning for executive strategy meetings, senior leadership strategy meetings and Board-executive strategic planning sessions and participates in Crown Investments Corporation’s (CIC) Performance Management Day content planning and development.

• Oversees and ensures the alignment and integration of divisional and business area strategies with overall corporate strategy.

• Provides oversight and coordination of the corporation’s target operating model (TOM) discipline, including supporting and coordinating business divisions on the development and review of divisional TOMs.

• Oversees the development and implementation of supports for business area functional strategy design and maintenance (e.g. facilitation, templates, KPI development, etc.).

• Keeps abreast of trends in the business environment, developments in the strategic planning discipline and other factors impacting SGI’s strategic direction and strategy development.

• Liaises with strategy professionals in other Crown corporations and industries.

• Builds relationships and collaborates with other departments that have a strategic function.

• Collaborates with risk management on risks related to new initiatives, strategic decision making and significant changes in strategy.

Strategy Execution & Alignment

• Develops and leads the corporate project governance framework, including supporting successful implementation and ongoing execution.

• Establishes and leads the portfolio management discipline, including establishing portfolio management approaches and alignment with annual financial processes.

• Oversees the annual, quarterly, and monthly reporting cycles for key stakeholders, including the Board of Directors, CIC, executive and other senior leaders, for use in decision making.

• Ensures development of clear success metrics and benefits realization measurements for corporate projects and programs.

• Oversees the prioritization, coordination and execution of strategic projects and programs led by the Enterprise Project Management Office.

Strategic Insights & Analysis

• Oversees development of the corporation’s balanced scorecard metrics, measuring organizational performance.

• Ensures monitoring, analysis, and reporting of external and internal operating environments (industry trends, competitor/counterpart performance, customer, partner and employee insights, etc.).

• Oversees coordination and reporting of benefits realization for strategic initiatives, programs and projects.

• Ensures reporting and insights are provided to the strategy development and Enterprise Program Management Office teams to help improve strategy and performance.

• Ensures quarterly reporting against balanced scorecards, informing CIC, the SGI Board of Directors, SGI executive and senior leadership of results, and facilitating discussion of progress.

• Coordinates collection and analysis of external market data to inform strategic planning; this includes the oversight for SWOT analysis, PESTLE analysis, or other strategic frameworks that support the collection and analysis of external factors.

• Works closely with SGI’s data office and other corporate data stewards to integrate appropriate data inputs into all strategy functions.

• Integrates effective resource allocation into strategic processes to optimize the achievement of corporate results.

• Oversees the benefits realization process for initiatives, programs and projects.

Strategic Senior Management Leadership

• Collaboratively, as part of the VP team, participates by providing Executive Leadership Team (ELT) insight and feedback on the short and long term strategic direction of the corporation and recommends adjustments based on current environment.

• Works collaboratively to understand and build alignment with divisional short and long term tactics to achieve corporate strategies.

• In collaboration with ELT and Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) determines resource commitments and capacity to deliver on the organization’s goals and strategies.

• Supports the execution of company succession plans, ensuring developmental opportunities that provide progressive movement in employees’ growth and development.

• In collaboration with EVPs, submits, represents and presents operational and strategic reports and requests to ELT and the Board of Directors.

• Leads, directs and monitors change management strategies/plans to support and align to divisional and corporate strategies and to gain acceptance of divisional strategies by other business areas and partners.

People Leadership

• Builds a high performing workforce by actively leading human resource activities.

• Ensures development of divisional succession plans.

• Builds a culture of leadership and accountability to effectively deliver on strategic and corporate strategies, ensuring integration with employee performance development and career development plans.

• Drives performance through team members and is committed to leadership development across the company, supporting employees and workforce readiness through mentoring, training and developmental opportunities.

Corporate Management

• Ensures programs and policies are in alignment with corporate, strategic and divisional strategies.

• Manages risk in area of authority.

• Prepares, reviews, manages and/or approves departmental/divisional budgets.

• Prepares decision requests, decision and/or information items and/or SGI Board items.

• Ensures that the Health, Safety and Emergency Management Policy is applied in area of responsibility, including development, implementation and managing of program components specific to departmental health and safety requirements.

• Makes decisions for departmental operations that are efficient, effective and in alignment with strategic direction and priorities.

• Ensures department and program policies, procedures and guidelines are in compliance with applicable federal and provincial legislation and regulations; implements and evaluates changes to legislation and regulations in area of authority.

• Establishes and maintains an effective system of internal controls to support reliable financial reporting and compliance in accordance with applicable laws and regulations within the span of control, and communicates the importance of internal controls to staff.

Education and Experience

• A four-year degree from an accredited post-secondary institution in a relevant field of study such as business or public policy.

• Fifteen years of experience in corporate strategy including eight years of leadership experience with progressively challenging leadership responsibility.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of strategy development.

• Knowledge of strategic planning process, policies, and procedures.

• Knowledge of public administration and government processes.

• Knowledge of organizational units and how they interact to achieve corporate objectives.

• Knowledge of the insurance industry across multiple jurisdictions.

• Knowledge of driver and vehicle regulatory environments across multiple jurisdictions.

• Knowledge of portfolio management practices and processes.

• Knowledge of project management methodologies and techniques required to plan, manage and execute projects.

• Understanding of agile delivery and mindset.

• Ability to think strategically, identifying problems/threats, analyzing risks and assessing outcomes related to potential solutions.

• Ability to balance shareholder interests with business strategy and negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes.

• Ability to prepare and deliver effective presentations, facilitate discussion and achieve alignment.

• Ability to write clearly, concisely, persuasively and targeted to the appropriate audience.

Behavioural Competencies

Leader Level 5 – Applies (Division/Organization)

• Accountability - Defines and Enhances Organizational Accountability

• Business Acumen - Strategically Directs the Organization, Broadly Weighing Internal and External Perspectives

• Change Agility - Creates and Expresses the Vision for Change

• Leadership - Leads the Division/Organization

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