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Aviva

Vice President, Enterprise Transformation

Aviva

. Lead the Change Practice and Business Partnering teams, including performance, capability building, stakeholder alignment, change readiness, and delivery support.

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeMarkham • CanadaLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading large-scale transformation initiatives, managing complex stakeholder environments, and delivering measurable outcomes through effective governance and risk management. Proficient in financial validation, business case development, and aligning enterprise strategy with operational execution.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Leadership Experience in TransformationPortfolio Performance ManagementStakeholder Alignment and EngagementBusiness Case Development and Value RealizationGovernance and Risk Management

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Hard Skills
Change ManagementFinancial ForecastingBenefits RealizationDelivery Health MonitoringDependency TrackingScorecard DevelopmentPerformance Metrics NegotiationTransformation Portfolio ManagementOperational ResilienceIssue Management
Soft Skills
Influencing Without AuthorityCoaching and MentoringCollaborationDecisivenessResilience
Tools & Technologies
DashboardsScorecardsGovernance FrameworksProject Management SoftwareFinancial Management Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
Project Management CertificationProgram Management CertificationChange Management CertificationCPA or Equivalent Financial Qualification
Industry Keywords
Enterprise Change PortfolioStakeholder ManagementInvestment PrioritizationRegulated EnvironmentMarket Insight Translation

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the Change Practice and Business Partnering teams, including performance, capability building, stakeholder alignment, change readiness, and delivery support.
  • Chair the Change Investment Steer Co, driving prioritization, funding decisions, affordability, capital trade-offs, and investment sequencing across a $100–200 M enterprise change portfolio.
  • Spearhead portfolio performance management covering financials, resources, delivery health, risk exposure, milestones, benefits forecast versus actuals, and dependency tracking.
  • Establish portfolio routines, scorecards, thresholds, and recovery plans to surface and resolve performance issues.
  • Drive disciplined business cases and value assurance with Finance and sponsors; validate assumptions and hold benefit owners accountable.
  • Provide executive-level reporting on progress, risks, trade-offs, outcomes, and competing priorities for C-suite stakeholders.
  • Navigate complex stakeholder environments, resolve friction, influence without authority, and create clarity through ambiguity.
  • Steward vendor relationships for contract and flexible resource pools, negotiating capacity, SLAs, and performance metrics.
  • Lead the annual Roadmap Refresh and translate enterprise strategy and external market insight into a prioritized three-year change plan.
  • Enforce governance, risk, and issue-management standards while balancing pace, control, compliance, and operational resilience in a regulated environment.
  • Set delivery standards, coach talent, embed best practices, and build succession depth across the transformation function.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, technology, project management) or equivalent experience.
  • Significant leadership experience driving large-scale transformation, modernization, and organizational change initiatives.
  • Proven ability to lead large transformation portfolios, prioritize investments, manage funding trade-offs, and deliver measurable enterprise outcomes.
  • Skilled at translating complex data, risks, and trade-offs into clear decisions for C-suite stakeholders and governance forums.
  • Expertise in dashboards, scorecards, baselines, thresholds, delivery health, financials, resources, forecasting, dependency tracking, benefits realization, and translating insight into executive action.
  • Strong capability in business cases, affordability, Finance validation, benefit ownership, and value realization.
  • Experience leading transformation with strong controls, issue management, compliance awareness, and operational resilience.
  • Track record building delivery and business analysis capability, setting standards, coaching talent, and strengthening succession pipelines.
  • Ability to align stakeholders, assess readiness, and enable adoption across business units and functions.
  • Skilled in negotiating contracts, SLAs and performance metrics with third-party providers to maintain scalable and flexible delivery capacity.
  • Strong people-leadership skills, identifying high potentials, crafting development pathways, and mentoring future leaders at scale.
  • Experience driving annual roadmap refresh processes and translating enterprise strategy into a coherent three-year change plan with measurable outcomes.
  • Industry trends, benchmarks, emerging practices, and technology-enabled change perspective.
  • Professional certification in project, program, or change management preferred.
  • Accounting designation preferred; CPA or equivalent financial qualification considered an asset.
  • Decisive, commercial, resilient, collaborative, and trusted at executive level; able to inspire pace, quality, and ownership.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive executive compensation package, including annual incentive opportunities.
  • Comprehensive pension and retirement savings programs.
  • Flexible hybrid work model.
  • Industry-leading health and wellness benefits.
  • Professional development and executive leadership opportunities.
  • Inclusive employee resource groups and diversity initiatives.
  • Volunteer opportunities and community impact programs.
  • Competitive vacation and wellness offerings.