Ville : Waterloo

Catégorie : Full-time

Industrie : Finance

Employeur : Sun Life Financial

Vous êtes unique, comme le sont votre parcours, votre expérience et votre façon de voir les choses. Ici, on vous encourage et on vous motive à donner le meilleur de vous-même, et on vous donne les moyens de le faire. Vous travaillerez avec des collègues dynamiques – experts dans leur domaine – qui sont impatients de partager leurs connaissances avec vous. Vous aurez des gestionnaires inspirants qui vous aideront à développer votre potentiel et à atteindre de nouveaux sommets. Chaque jour, vous aurez de nouvelles occasions de rendre la vie de nos Clients plus radieuse – ils sont au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons. Découvrez comment vous pouvez faire une différence dans la vie des gens, des familles, des collectivités – ici et partout dans le monde.

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About the role:

Global Procurement and Payments (GPP) focus is to support Sun Life’s winning strategy and deliver bottom line results by driving value on our business’ external spend management. Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) leverages data and analytics to enable Category Management and Strategic Sourcing to make more informed, data-driven decisions, optimize third party spend, improve quality and enhance supplier relationships. We do so by deriving actionable insights from third party spend; deeply supporting RFPs, renewals & negotiations, by partnering with category managers and strategic sourcing leads across Sun Life globally.

The Senior Consultant will be a part of a collaborative and caring team that works on the most challenging and interesting problems in this space. They will work in a fast pace and dynamic environment, with exposure to senior leaders, and be able to build a broad knowledge of Sun Life’s businesses. The successful candidate will lead workstreams with minimal supervision, including analyzing RFP bid information, third party spend data, compiling metrics, conducting in-depth research and more.

What will you do?

• Support GPP’s Category Management & Strategic Sourcing team on sourcing event (with should cost models, bid analysis, market benchmark, scenario analysis), strategy development (with historical and forecasted spend trends) and spend reporting (with monthly/quarterly/annual reports and slides for various stakeholders)
• Extract, transform and interpret data at the lowest level of detail to analyze spend, identify trends, insights and opportunities
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics from RFP bids to guide decisions on awarding and contracting
• Conduct market research and benchmarking analysis to evaluate potential suppliers, track market trends, and identify emerging opportunities for strategic partnerships
• Prepare relevant data to enable tracking of management information and KPIs such as category savings, vendor SLAs
• Acquire, maintain and develop expertise, knowledge and information to support continuous improvement from relevant internal and external sources
• Work directly and effectively with various teams and share your expertise and insights with colleagues to expand our GPP knowledge and refine our approaches to come up with the best solutions and drive outcomes
• Other duties as required
• Structure ambiguous problems, derive insights from complex information into clear takeaways and actionable recommendations, using both qualitative and quantitative methods
• Communicate effectively with all audiences, including senior leaders, in a clear, compelling and concise manner – including but not limited to creating clear, organized slides and other format of communication that draws out important messages and supporting data, produce near “executive-ready” slides and outputs, effectively present specific content to audience and contribute to discussions
• Demonstrate an ability and drive to learn within a fast-moving team, provide flexible and creative support, proactively identify opportunities.
• Establish trust-based relationships with teams to better serve them by blending critical thinking with hands-on experiences, helping teams address their most critical problems. Listen to and appropriately address stakeholder feedback
• Expand horizons by gaining exposure to diverse work cultures and global business practices

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years experience in Consultancy, Financial Services, Data Analytics/Management or Procurement Analytics
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, business or procurement and supply focus
• Competency in Microsoft Office programs
• High proficiency in data analytics and visualization tools (IE/ MS Excel, Tableau, Alteryx and advanced with functionality such as pivots, power query, formulas) a strong ability to interpret data, draw insightful observations and state risks/limitations
• Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to understand and lead complex analyses from end to end including gathering requirements, assessing data integrity/completeness, building sophisticated models, deriving insights
• Ability to grasp and communicate complex ideas and data insights clearly and effectively at an executive level, both verbally and in writing
• Strong results-oriented project management skills; ability to prioritize and balance competing priorities; well organized, with high attention to detail
• Ability to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgment including resourcefulness and out-of-the-box thinking in navigating ambiguous situations/problems
• Ability to engage and collaborate effectively with others outside of Analytics CoE

What's in it for you?

• Hybrid work environment
• A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive culture
• 20 vacation days per year
• 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 opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
• Access to our Global Learning Centre, available 24/7 for your learning needs
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical and financial

Recent Awards:

• We are honoured to be recognized as a 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work® Canada
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork 2022
• Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for Professional Development in Canada 2022
• Named “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor, 2021 and 2023

L’échelle du salaire de base est pour l’emplacement principal du poste affiché. Elle peut varier selon l’emplacement du candidat sélectionné et d’autres facteurs. En plus du salaire de base, les employés admissibles de la Sun Life participent à différents programmes de rémunération incitative, dont le montant octroyé est discrétionnaire et dépend du rendement de l’employé et de la compagnie. Certains postes de vente participent à des programmes de rémunération incitative basés sur les résultats de vente individuels ou de groupe. 

Depuis toujours, la diversité et l’inclusion sont au cœur des valeurs de la Sun Life. Nous croyons qu’un effectif diversifié, aux points de vue variés et aux idées créatives, est avantageux pour nos Clients, pour les collectivités où nous exerçons nos activités et pour nous tous, en tant que collègues. Nous accueillons avec enthousiasme les candidatures de personnes compétentes provenant de tous les horizons.

Les personnes handicapées ayant besoin de mesures d’adaptation pour présenter leur candidature et celles qui doivent consulter les offres d’emploi dans un autre format peuvent envoyer leur demande par courriel à l’adresse thebrightside@sunlife.com.

Nous sommes fiers d’être une organisation hybride qui offre aux employés le choix et la flexibilité de travailler au bureau ou à distance, selon les besoins de l’entreprise, ceux des Clients et les vôtres! Nous offrons plusieurs options de travail selon les exigences du poste et les besoins individuels. N’hésitez pas à en discuter pendant le processus de sélection.

Nous pouvons utiliser l'intelligence artificielle pour soutenir la recherche des candidats, la présélection et la planification des entrevues.

Nous remercions toutes les personnes qui auront manifesté leur intérêt pour ce poste. Nous ne communiquerons qu’avec celles retenues pour une entrevue.

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