Managing Director, Strategy & Transformation

Role overview

Strategy and transformation

• Shape enterprise-wide Canadian and Global Wealth Management strategy, governance, operating cadence, and integrated execution roadmaps.
• Identify, prioritize, and oversee business-critical initiatives, including trade-offs, resource needs, stakeholder impacts, risk, and organizational readiness.
• Coordinate priorities across Global Wealth Solutions leadership, the Office of the Group Head, and enterprise partners.
• Establish executive reporting and performance frameworks that provide actionable insight and progress visibility.
• Translate client, employee, and business performance insights, including ScotiaPulse results, into strategies that improve outcomes.
• Advance transformation by aligning strategy, communications, change management, culture, inclusion, and organizational effectiveness.

Leadership and risk

• Lead a multidisciplinary team through Director- and Senior Manager-level direct reports, with accountability for direction, prioritization, governance, and executive deliverables.
• Build senior relationships across Global Wealth Management and enterprise functions to advance shared outcomes.
• Promote the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite, and ensure effective operational, compliance, AML/ATF, sanctions, and conduct controls.
• Attract, retain, develop, and motivate the team through inclusive leadership, coaching, and succession planning.

Role expectations

• Act as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to the EVP and business heads.
• Lead a function through Director- and Senior Manager-level direct reports.
• Conduct activities in accordance with governing regulations, internal policies, risk appetite, and the Bank’s values and Code of Conduct.