Senior Consultant, Strategic Analytics CoE - Procurement

Sun Life Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 84,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Senior Consultant for their Global Procurement and Payments team in Toronto. This role involves data analysis, market research, and collaboration with senior leaders to drive strategic sourcing decisions. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills and a background in data analytics, with a focus on delivering actionable insights to enhance supplier relationships.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in Consultancy, Financial Services or Data Analytics/Management.
• High proficiency in data analytics and visualization tools.
• Strong results-oriented project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Extract, transform and interpret data to analyze spend and identify trends.
• Conduct market research and benchmarking analysis.
• Prepare relevant data to enable tracking of management information and KPIs.

Skills

Data analytics

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science or business

Tools

MS Excel

Tableau

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. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

The Global Procurement and Payments (GPP)’s 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, be exposed 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 and third party spend data, compiling metrics, conducting in-depth research and more.

How You’ll Find Success & Grow:

• Structure ambiguous problems, take action to address them and synthesize clear takeaways from complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods

• Communicate effectively with all audiences, including senior leaders, in a clear, compelling and concise manner

• 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. Listening to and appropriately addressing stakeholder feedback

• Expand your horizons by gaining exposure to diverse work cultures and global business practices.

What will you do?

• 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 while sharing your expertise and insights with colleagues, thereby growing our knowledge, and refining our approaches, to come up with the best solution and drive outcomes

What do you need to succeed?

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science or business

• 3+ years experience in Consultancy, Financial Services or Data Analytics/Management

• High proficiency in data analytics and visualization tools (IE/ MS Excel, Tableau 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 a high attention to detail

• Ability to work independently on assignments with appropriate judgmentincluding resourcefulness and out-of-the-box thinking in navigating ambiguous situations/problems

• Ability to engage and collaborate effectively with others outside of Analytics CoE

#LI-Hybrid

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] .

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:

84,000/84 000 - 138,000/138 000

Job Category:

IT - Technology Services

Posting End Date:

04/06/2025