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SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors. We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world's leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.

We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner's mindset. As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference.We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.

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SLC Management offers a mix of in-office and virtual work where our employees are empowered to do their best. Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on their business, client and team needs.

Managing Director, Enterprise Integration & MEP Program Delivery (Contract) - SLC Management

What is in it for you:

This is a temporary full-time 18-month contract position.

The Managing Director will provide program management leadership for SLC MEP and integration activities. The role is accountable for shaping the overall execution approach, aligning senior stakeholders, establishing governance discipline, coordinating cross-functional execution, , and ensuring decisions, risks, dependencies, budgets, and execution priorities are managed with the transparency and rigor expected at an enterprise leadership level.

What you will do:

• Own and actively manage the integrated execution plan for SLC MEP and integration activities, including milestones, dependencies, owners, risks, sequencing, and decision points.
• Drive cross-functional delivery across Finance, HR, Tax, Legal, Technology, Operations, Risk, Change Management, business leaders, external advisors, and other stakeholders.
• Run disciplined operating rhythms, governance forums, status reviews, and escalation processes that keep workstreams moving and accountable.
• Track budgets, approvals, advisor scopes, deliverables, timelines, and forecasted spend, ensuring risks, overages, blockers, and unresolved issues are addressed promptly.
• Convert cross-functional inputs into clear action items, owner assignments, execution decisions, escalation matters, and progress updates for senior leadership.
• Maintain delivery momentum by removing roadblocks, resolving execution issues, enforcing accountability, and ensuring workstream outputs are completed to the required quality and timeline.

Key Relationships

• Senior leaders across Finance, HR, Tax, Legal, Technology, Operations, Risk, Change Management, and business functions involved in integration or strategic initiative delivery.
• Project Manager, Business Analyst, workstream leads, and functional teams supporting execution, issue resolution, and delivery management.
• External advisors and other service providers supporting integration planning, execution, governance, or specialized workstreams.
• Executive sponsors and senior decision-makers responsible for prioritization, approvals, escalation, and outcome ownership.

Success Measures

• Integrated execution plan maintained with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decision points, and delivery status.
• Governance forums and operating rhythms that result in timely decisions, clear actions, escalations, accountability, and follow-through.
• Material priority, scope, budget, delivery, and stakeholder alignment issues resolved quickly and transparently.
• External advisor deliverables, budgets, scopes, timelines, and value delivered actively managed against agreed expectations.
• Improved workstream transparency, delivery discipline, execution cadence, and accountability across SLC MEP and integration activities.
• Key execution milestones delivered on time, with appropriate executive visibility, risk management, and stakeholder confidence.

What you need to succeed:

• Significant experience leading complex enterprise execution, integrations, transactions, or transformation delivery in a matrixed environment.
• Strong delivery discipline, judgment, and ability to drive outcomes through influence, coordination, and structured follow-through.
• Demonstrated ability to turn priorities into executable plans, manage competing workstreams, resolve ambiguity, and keep teams focused on delivery milestones.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise status updates, action logs, decision materials, governance documents, and escalation summaries.
• Experience managing external advisors, budgets, scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, and execution-related issue resolution.
• Comfort operating across Finance, Tax, HR, Legal, Technology, Operations, transaction integration, operating model change, governance, and enterprise-wide implementation activities.
• Ability to identify execution risks, escalate clearly, and drive timely decisions in complex and sensitive environments.

Why SLC Management?

• Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager
• Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being - mental, physical and financial - including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program, a partially-paid sabbatical program and much more
• Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
• A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development #WeWinAsATeam
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
• Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work Certified in Canada and the U.S., "Best Places to Work" by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, "Best Places to Work in Money Management" by Pension & Investments

SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees. Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.

Salary Range

We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive. We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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

We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations. 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 thebrightside@sunlife.com.

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