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Senior Advisor, Business strategies

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on developing and executing business strategies and solutions aligned with organizational transformation initiatives. You will serve as a specialist advisor and subject matter expert, coordinating with various stakeholders to enhance service delivery and support strategic projects.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field.
  • A minimum of six years of relevant experience.
  • Strong communication skills in both French and English, both oral and written.
  • Preferred: Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning, Strategic mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Advise clients and partners on positioning, planning, developing, executing, and monitoring strategic projects and initiatives.
  • Develop and update policies, standards, models, and programs to support strategic projects and initiatives.
  • Identify, analyze, and diagnose major issues, making recommendations to decision-making bodies.
  • Represent the unit before decision-making bodies and in agreements with external partners and organizations.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Decision Making
  • Communication
  • Social Skills
  • Action Oriented
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Quick Learning

About the company

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Desjardins

  • Banking
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Desjardins Group is the leading cooperative financial group in Canada and the fifth largest cooperative financial group in the world with assets of $227 billion. It has been rated one of Canada’s top 100 employers by Mediacorp Canada. To meet the diverse needs of its members and clients, Desjardins offers a full range of products and services to individuals and businesses through its extensive distribution network, online platforms and subsidiaries across Canada. The group has one of the highest capital ratios and credit ratings in the industry. It is considered as the fourth safest and strongest bank in North America according to Global Finance magazine and the first according to Bloomberg News.

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Job description

As a senior business strategy advisor, you help develop plans and business intelligence; monitor business plans and performance; set targets; identify opportunities to improve service delivery; and design and deliver business strategies and solutions aligned with the business architecture of various initiatives, including the organizational transformation and shift. You lead development projects and strategic initiatives that are complex and innovative. Your initiatives require extensive knowledge of your specialty area. You make recommendations on the planning and execution of operationally and conceptually complex projects and initiatives that require comprehensive analysis and understanding of the organization and line of business. Coordination is critical, so you frequently interact with stakeholders working in many other fields. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential. You serve as specialist advisor and subject matter expert, as well as resource person and coach for decision-making bodies. More specifically, you will be required to:

  • Advise your clients and partners to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic projects and initiatives
  • Develop and update policies, standards, models and programs to support your unit’s strategic projects and initiatives
  • Identify, analyze and diagnose major issues and make recommendations to decision-making bodies
  • Represent your unit before decision-making bodies
  • Represent Desjardins’s position when making agreements with external partners and organizations.

What we offer*

  • Competitive salary and annual bonus
  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
  • Group insurance including telemedicine
  • Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

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What you bring to the table

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • A minimum of six years of relevant experience
  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
  • Strong communication skills in both French and English, both oral and written due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with english-speaking partners, members and/or clients.

Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning, Strategic mindset


Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!

Trade Union (If applicable)

Job Family

Administration (FG)

Unposting Date

2026-11-26

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