Title:  Director, Strategy & Planning

Requisition ID: 248957

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Canadian Banking Operations (CBO) Strategy group is a high-performing central team focused on driving the design, execution, and ongoing management of the Canadian Banking (CB) team’s strategic agenda. This includes supporting senior leadership in the development, communication, planning, and execution of enterprise-wide and business-line specific priorities.

Reporting to the VP, Strategy & Planning, the Director will work closely with senior management, business line leads, and a diverse set of stakeholders to lead execution of strategic projects, generate insights to deliver strategic recommendations, and support execution monitoring.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Own and maintain CBO’s 3-year strategic roadmap for enterprise-wide strategic priorities.
• Lead a broad range of strategy execution engagements, including strategic programs and initiatives at the All-Bank level. This involves managing large cross-functional teams across business lines, designing and developing roadmaps, identifying issues, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess impact on financials, and preparing/presenting compelling strategic recommendations to leadership.
• Guide alignment of initiatives and business lines to ensure strategies fit within the roadmap, promoting clarity, focus, and cohesion.
• Track and update strategic milestones regularly to reflect evolving business needs, global trends, and execution realities.
• Provide strategic support to the CBO Head and COO by shaping priorities, enabling decision-making, and aligning execution plans to strategy.
• Ensure team coordination and effectiveness by driving the operating rhythm, aligning workstreams, and maintaining discipline in planning processes.
• Bridge silos and enable alignment across business lines and corporate functions.
• Synthesize findings and present clear recommendations and implementation plans to ensure impactful project outcomes to senior leaders within the Bank.
• Act as a trusted partner to Senior Executives, helping them define priorities and ensuring they are set up to achieve them.
• Review portfolio of strategic priorities to determine emerging issues and trends and analyze the impact/implications of those trends on various business line strategic plans.
• Support the CBO Head and COO agenda, including all-bank strategy, business line value creation projects, strategic planning, Board-level communications, and being a trusted advisor to senior leaders.
• In close partnership with Communications, identify strategic communication opportunities. Support coordination and planning of events, internally and externally, and work with Communications to ensure consistent messaging across all groups of stakeholders.
• Contribute to building the strategy team, including recruiting, coaching, knowledge development, driving integration with the rest of the Bank, and championing a customer-focused culture.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Champion a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent by fostering an inclusive work environment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? – We’d love to work with you if you have:

• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to manage ambiguity.
• Strong interpersonal skills, leadership, and influencing capabilities at an executive level.
• Self-motivated; ability to work both independently and collaboratively with multi-functional teams.
• Experience running complex projects, with large groups of cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively manage relationships across the Bank, its partners, and external vendors.
• Collaborative and proven track record of managing and developing high-potential talent.

What’s in it for you?

• An inclusive & collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We offer a competitive rewards package: Performance bonus, Employee Share Ownership Program, and Pension Plan Matching, Health Benefits from day one!
• Your career matters! You will have access to career development and progression opportunities.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employees to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences every individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements. 

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.