Director, ITE Value Realization Enablement

Sun Life; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 135,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary and bonus program

Flexible group insurance

Share Ownership Program

Great Place to Work recognition

Job summary

Sun Life is seeking a Director to lead ITE Value Realization Enablement portfolios, driving measurable business value and governance across global initiatives.

You will coach senior PMs, partner with business and technology leaders, and build scalable delivery capability in a hybrid, client-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology delivery leadership, portfolio management, or enterprise program leadership.
• Proven experience leading large, complex portfolios with cross-functional and global impact.
• Strong background in portfolio governance, financial management, and value realization.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching senior delivery roles.
• Experience operating in regulated, enterprise-scale environments preferred.
• Predictable delivery outcomes across assigned portfolios.
• Clear, measurable value realization from ITE investments.
• Improved transparency, governance rigor, and executive confidence.
• Scalable leadership capacity and sustainable delivery maturity.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned ITE portfolios with accountability for prioritization and risk management.
• Translate enterprise and ITE strategy into clear, executable portfolio roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
• Establish value-based governance with defined benefits and success metrics.
• Lead and develop Senior PMs, PMs, and Scrum Masters across portfolios.
• Collaborate with business units, technology leaders, and partners to ensure outcomes.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Portfolio management

Enterprise program leadership

Portfolio governance

Financial management

Value realization

People leadership

Regulated environments

Job description

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll 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. At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description

Director, ITE Value Realization Enablement (ITE VRE) is accountable for leading one or more enterprise ITE portfolios, ensuring technology investments are prioritized, governed, delivered, and measured for business value. This role plays a critical leadership function in Sun Life’s transition from project‑centric delivery to a portfolio‑based operating model, providing clarity of ownership, delivery rigor, and measurable value realization across complex, cross‑portfolio initiatives.

What will you do?

Portfolio Leadership & Delivery

• Own end‑to‑end delivery of assigned ITE portfolios (e.g., Network, DQ, CRE, CCIO, SD), accountable for prioritization, sequencing, delivery outcomes, and risk management.
• Translate enterprise and ITE strategy into clear, executable portfolio roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
• Ensure delivery predictability across high‑volume, high‑complexity initiatives with global impact.

Value Realization & Governance

• Establish and maintain value‑based governance, ensuring benefits, outcomes, and success metrics are defined, tracked, and communicated.
• Drive transparency into portfolio health, financials, dependencies, and outcomes for executive and SteerCo audiences.
• Proactively manage demand intake, trade‑offs, and capacity to ensure focus on highest‑value work.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop Senior PMs, PMs, and Scrum Masters across the portfolio, ensuring clear accountability, span of control, and role clarity.
• Address leadership capacity gaps caused by growth, contractor‑to‑FTE transitions, and increased portfolio demand.
• Build sustainable delivery capability through standards, coaching, and career pathing.

Stakeholder & Partner Management

• Act as a senior partner to Business Unit leaders, Technology leaders, and Enterprise stakeholders to align delivery outcomes with business needs.
• Collaborate closely with Vendor Management and delivery partners to ensure contractual alignment to outcomes and value.
• Support enterprise change, adoption, and communication strategies for high‑impact initiatives.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive consistency and quality in delivery practices, governance cadence, and reporting across portfolios.
• Reduce dependency risk, delivery friction, and capacity bottlenecks through continuous improvement and operating model refinement.
• Enable scalability as portfolio scope, funding, and delivery demand increase.

What you’ll need to succeed?

• 10+ years in technology delivery leadership, portfolio management, or enterprise program leadership.
• Proven experience leading large, complex portfolios with cross‑functional and global impact.
• Strong background in portfolio governance, financial management, and value realization.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching senior delivery roles.
• Experience operating in regulated, enterprise‑scale environments preferred.
• Predictable delivery outcomes across assigned portfolios.
• Clear, measurable value realization from ITE investments.
• Improved transparency, governance rigor, and executive confidence.
• Scalable leadership capacity and sustainable delivery maturity.

What's in it for you?

• A competitive salary and bonus program, based on market scale.
• A flexible group insurance program starting on your first day of work to meet your needs and those of your family.
• Our Share Ownership Program gives you the opportunity to invest in Sun Life while benefiting from employer matching contributions.
• We are proud to be included in Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Canada's Best Workplaces.

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 [e-mail].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

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

Salary Range: 135,000/135 000 - 195,000/195 000

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