Job Description

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You\'ll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you\'ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

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This is a 12-month contract position

Reporting to the Director, Activation, Global Partnerships, the Manager will play a key role in the development and execution of philanthropic activations with our key philanthropic charitable partners. Collaborating across numerous internal stakeholder teams, including regional marketing teams, lines of business, communications, HR and legal, as well as external third-party charities, the incumbent will help ensure these activations generate social impact, brand awareness, change perceptions of the brand, increase consideration, engage employees, and drive business results.

What will you do?

• Responsible for activating and leveraging philanthropic investments. Includes event creation and management, development of marketing materials, and in working with internal and external partners, advertising, communications, content creation and social/digital media.
• Works in conjunction with the Director, Activations, Global Partnerships, to contribute to and develop annual activation plans.
• Drafts reports and presentations for key stakeholders to provide details of proposed activation strategy and plans, in addition to summary reporting to demonstrate resulting impact.
• Functions as the lead day-to-day Sun Life representative with philanthropic partners and leads the management of contractual rights and benefits to ensure effective utilization
• Ensures philanthropic partners are adhering to an established Sun Life social impact measurement framework and collects data to support overarching research and analytics goals
• Work with external agencies as required to support philanthropic activations.
• Acts a consultant for other marketing areas (BG, BU and Corporate) requiring guidance on executions of philanthropic activations.
• Collaborates across numerous internal stakeholder teams, including regional marketing teams, lines of business and communications to deliver activation programs. Primarily accountable for execution within Canada with increasing responsibility for activation programs in Sun Life Asia markets.
• Manages philanthropic activation budget in accordance with forecasts.
• Operates at an Enterprise-wide level and serves as a subject matter expert across Sun Life

What do you need to succeed?

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong conceptual abilities to solve complex problems and adapt solutions.
• Ability to work effectively within tight deadlines and able to adapt to changing deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize multiple deliverables within a cross-functional team environment that can include many reporting levels inclusive of senior management and varying skills/ competencies.
• High level of accuracy and thoroughness to ensure work delivered correctly and is of high quality.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities while meeting strict deadlines.
• Strong engagement skills with proven ability to build, support and develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills with proficient knowledge of in person and virtual event planning and execution, project management and cause marketing.

What will be nice to have?

• University degree, preferably with Marketing, Philanthropy, Sponsorship and/or event management disciplines
• 5-7 years of proven experience working in Marketing, Philanthropy roles
• Proven track-record of successful (at least 5 years) management/implementation of Marketing, Philanthropy and/or Sponsorship campaigns and programs.
• Demonstrates ability to make decisions within scope and solve problems.
• Ability to influence positive outcomes with senior leaders and external partners.
• Ability to create and deliver unique and engaging activations to help achieve established brand and business goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically.
• Demonstrated project management skills.

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it for you?

• Great Place to Work\xc2\xae Certified in Canada and the US - 2022
• Great Place to Work\xc2\xae award for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork
• 2022 Named \xe2\x80\x9cBest Places to Work\xe2\x80\x9d by Glassdoor - 2021
• Canada Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work
• 2021 Flexible hybrid work model including in-country work-from-home if you prefer.
• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security

#LI-Hybrid #LI-remote

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to .

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range: 74,100/74 100 - 120,800/120 800

Job Category: Communications

Posting End Date: 13/07/2023

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