Job Strategy Manager in Ottawa

Please note: This position is hybrid, with an expectation that the successful incumbent is able to regularly access one of our offices in Ontario, with the flexibility to work remotely to ensure we continue to meet the needs of our donors, our staff and our communities.

Job category: Supervisory and management
Job posting ID: 4060

Employment status: Regular full-time
Classification: PTS/MGT/IT B

Salary/Rate of pay: $105,000 - $121,000

Application deadline: 2023-05-08

Somewhere in Canada there’s a life you can save.

Be part of a dynamic, collaborative and caring organization committed to saving and improving the lives of Canadians. Thousands of Canadians depend on us every day for reliable access to blood, plasma, stem cells and organs and tissues.

Join Canada’s Lifeline and make a meaningful difference every day.

About the role

This is an opportunity that doesn’t come up often!

Canadian Blood Services is looking for a highly motivated Regular Full-Time Manager, Strategy and Reporting to join our dynamic People, Culture and Performance division.

This exciting role will work with passionate senior leaders and the corporate strategy team to accomplish great things. The Manager, Strategy and Reporting will be immersed in the strategies and reporting of this unique national healthcare organization that saves lives across Canada every day.

This position plays an integral role in ensuring the organization’s strategy management system functions smoothly and takes advantage of new and leading practices in how strategy is deployed, and reported upon inside an organization. This role provides thought leadership and drives accountability and delivery of the Canadian Blood Services strategy, ensuring that projects are aligned to the overall ambition and strategic direction of the organization, and maintaining a consistent reporting cycle.

Key responsibilities include:

The Manager works closely with senior leadership across the organization to ensure the following activities are delivered with care, quality and excellence:

Strategy Management

• Translates the organization's corporate strategy into operational terms – meaning the ability to disaggregate high-level strategic themes into compelling corporate goals.
• Ensures there is a corporate measurement system – a corporate scorecard - to ensure relevant and timely data-driven feedback to track progress against corporate goals.
• Facilitates cross-divisional discussions related to the corporate strategy and associated corporate scorecard measures and targets.
• Develops key artefacts of the strategy management process including processes required that drive corporate performance in a single unified strategy management system.

Strategy Reporting and Review

• Leads the creation of the quarterly strategy and operational reports using various tools, including strategy management software.
• Advises on how best to craft analysis to ensure performance data is accompanied by a meaningful narrative to bring life to the data.
• Creates compelling reports and well-designed strategy review meetings to ensure performance is discussed and timely decisions are made.
• Prepares and manages presentations and briefing to the Board and stakeholders regarding our strategic plan and the state of its progress.

Project Review

• Advises on how best to shape programs and initiatives intended to deliver on the strategic plan
• Develops tools and approaches to ensure the organization is broadly aligned with the overarching corporate strategy
• Works collaboratively with the ePMO to ensure project managers across the organization maintain the quality and accuracy of data and reporting for corporate and strategic projects and initiatives
• Makes recommendations pertaining to the strategic portfolio, including prioritization, sequencing and other aspects of portfolio.

Education, training, and experience:

• University degree in a relevant discipline, preferably in business, science, engineering, health or related discipline. A Master’s degree is an asset.
• 5+ years of experience in strategy formulation, planning, and execution.
• Knowledge of the Balanced Scorecard methodology, as well as a familiarity with terms like the Strategy-Focused Organization and the Office of Strategy Management is an asset
• Certification in strategy management is desirable
• An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered.
• Proven ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders that leverages our key values of integrity, collaboration, adaptability, respect and excellence
• Proven high level verbal and written communication skills that allow you to deliver complex concepts clearly and effectively through documents, reports, presentations, and diagrams.
• Previous experience in consulting, healthcare, food production, or pharmaceutical industries is an asset.
• Must be detail-oriented with a high sense of initiative, strong problem solving, and critical thinking.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary range
• 4 weeks of paid vacation
• Annual Performance Award up to 10%
• Comprehensive group health, dental and vision benefits
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Employee discounts, wellness programs, and much more!

Diversity and inclusion play a vital role in ensuring health equity for patients across Canada. We are committed to reflecting Canada’s population in our organization and fostering an environment where all employees can be their authentic selves, with equal opportunities to succeed and contribute.

To protect the health and safety of its employees, all Canadian Blood Services’ employees are required to be fully vaccinated (COVID-19 vaccine doses as approved by Health Canada), subject to any medical or other human rights grounds. Persons who have been vaccinated outside of Canada must contact their local Public Health Unit in order to obtain a vaccine equivalency certificate.

If this role resonates with you, we encourage you to apply! This could be your first step towards a meaningful and inspiring career. Come to work each day knowing that you save lives.

We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those considered for an interview or those invited to participate in an assessment (such as testing) will be contacted. Applicants who require accommodation should discuss their needs with us.