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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About the role:

Leading a dedicated team of energetic, forward-thinking innovators, you will stretch your imagination and sharpen your skills on the leading-edge projects that are keeping Sun Life Financial ahead of the curve.

The Scrum Master is a key role on one of seven Client Engagement Pods, within the Canadian Marketing team, under the Client Experience Office. Our Client Engagement Pods help our clients achieve financial security and well-being by proactively providing personalized, useful and actionable information. The program is a leading digital client engagement platform that has fuelled many Sun Life Canadian business units.

The Pod (Fire Pod) hosts a talented team of marketers, business and process owners, and change makers. Within Fire Pod, we turn raw ideas into real campaigns using a self-contained, self-governing group of experts who crave results.

The Scrum Master manages a team of 4 direct reports while ensuring the full agile marketing team lives agile values and principles. The responsibilities of this role include clearing obstacles; establishing an environment where the team can be effective; addressing team dynamics; ensuring a good relationship between the team, product owner and delivery as well as external stakeholders; and, protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions.

The Scrum Master will be accountable for sustaining the transformation of Sun Life\xe2\x80\x99s marketing culture and process through the adoption of agile principles and values; for enabling the Agile Marketing team to maximize campaign quality and velocity; for strategic planning of initiative capacities from the company\xe2\x80\x99s digital marketing strategy portfolio.

The right candidate will have a record of accomplishment leading transformational efforts in high-performing marketing organizations or departments, with a focus on continuous improvement. The applicant should be a relentless advocate and problem solver for their teams \xe2\x80\x93 a leader who is passionate about clearing roadblocks, reducing complexity, solving stakeholder conflicts, creating value, and blowing performance targets out of the water.

What will you do?

• Support flawless delivery. Identify opportunities to accelerate and improve marketing processes, outputs, and digital marketing strategy through agile thinking
• Embed Agile delivery. Inspire the agile marketing team and stakeholders to embrace essential agile practices such as sprints, stand-ups, backlogs, etc. as well as agile values
• Project management, forecast capacity utilization, anticipate and navigate roadblocks. Drive or support definition of campaign goals, support the creation of client stories, building team backlogs, time-boxing deliverables, and supporting the team in campaign development and testing. Anticipate threats to team progress and engage stakeholders and leadership to address issues. Capture levels of effort, timelines, and resourcing and budgetary requirements of digital strategy portfolio initiatives, e.g., marketing technology POCs and implementations.
• Coach and manage. Coach team to optimize individual and group contributions and maximize campaign ROI. Manage 4 direct reports, support professional development and OKR\xe2\x80\x99s.

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in leading and coaching strong dynamic teams with proven results and deliverables
• 3+ years as part of a high-performance marketing organization (i.e. large consumer brand, cutting-edge advertising agency, leading financial services organization, or marketing/media practice of a top management consulting firm)
• Subject matter expert in agile practices (Scrum framework)
• High level of accountability
• Collaboration, leading through influence, relationship building across diverse groups and teams
• Able to gather and prioritize information for quick, informed decisions
• Direct and supervisory experience spanning ideation through development and execution
• Advocate for using capacity to optimize OKR and customer experience
• Strong negotiation skills and willingness to challenge and be challenged
• Experienced in backlog building, burndown tracking, etc.
• Adept at stakeholder engagement, political consensus-building, and conflict resolution; tireless in placing these skills at the service of her or his teams
• Superb communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven success leading Agile transformations
• Strong analytic and creative thinker

What\'s in it for you?

• Flexible work environment where employees are empowered to do their best work; options to be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs
• 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
• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
• Being part of our journey in developing the next greatest digital experience
• Access to our Global Learning Centre, available 24/7 for your learning needs
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health \xe2\x80\x93 mental, physical and financial
• Being a member of the Sun Life family, a group of people united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives

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: Marketing

Posting End Date: 29/01/2023

Sun Life Financial