Senior Manager - Best Practice

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Best Practice Consultant to lead business analysis, insight discovery, and value realization for critical Client Care Centre (CCC) initiatives. This role will tackle complex operational problems, assess business impacts, and turn analysis into clear recommendations that improve performance and support confident decision-making. 

The ideal candidate will collaborate seamlessly with business leaders, Business Analytics, and cross-functional stakeholders, leveraging strong analytical skills to interpret results, challenge assumptions, and communicate insights clearly to senior audiences. 

What You Will Do: 

• Conduct in-depth business and operational analysis to identify trends, root causes, risks, opportunities, and business impacts across CCC initiatives 

• Define, track, and communicate pre- and post-release success measures, comparing expected outcomes with actual results and identifying key drivers of variance 

• Apply sound judgment to challenge assumptions, validate findings, and develop clear recommendations that support business decisions 

• Develop and maintain data models and reporting views that support consistent tracking of initiative impacts and provide reliable access to operational performance metrics 

• Effectively communicate complex problems and data-driven insights to stakeholders at different levels of the organization, including senior audiences 

What You Need to Succeed: 

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for different audiences, including senior stakeholders 

• Proven experience understanding complex business problems, developing data-driven solutions, and translating analysis into practical recommendations 

• Strong Excel and Tableau skills are required, including comfort working with large datasets, pivot tables, formulas, report building, and operational reporting 

• Strong judgment and ownership, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work through ambiguity, and produce high-quality deliverables with limited direction 

• Experience in a Call Centre or similar operations environment, with an understanding of process, capacity, and performance drivers, is considered an asset 

• Post-secondary education in business, analytics, or a related field is considered an asset; equivalent education and experience will also be considered 

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Analytics or a related field
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in business analysis, operational performance, process improvement, analytics, or a similar role within a Call Centre, or comparable operations environment
• Proven experience in business analysis, operational analysis, or continuous improvement, preferably within a Call Centre/Client Care or similar operations environment.
• Strong analytical capability, with demonstrated experience translating complex business problems and large datasets into actionable, data-driven recommendations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, formulas, data analysis, and operational reporting.
• Working proficiency in Tableau, including building or maintaining dashboards and reporting views.
• Strong understanding of operational performance drivers, including process efficiency, capacity, productivity, and performance metrics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex insights clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment, challenge assumptions, work through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality outputs with limited supervision.
• Relevant post-secondary education in Business, Analytics, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Job Category:

Project Management - Systems

Posting End Date:

28/09/2026