Vice President, Enterprise Transformation at Aviva in Markham

Job description

Experience Aviva Together, we are Aviva. Our values of Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence shape a culture of inclusion, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. The Opportunity The Vice President, Enterprise Transformation is a senior leader at the heart of Aviva Canada’s transformation agenda, accountable for delivering strategic initiatives that shape how we evolve, grow, and serve customers. Reporting to the SVP, Transformation, this leader will set the standard for delivery excellence, providing direction, performance discipline, and hands-on leadership across Aviva’s change portfolio. The VP will lead the Change Practice and Transformation Business Partnering teams, building capability, strengthening stakeholder alignment, and embedding a culture of pace, quality, and ownership. They will oversee the enterprise change portfolio, with accountability for prioritization, delivery performance, budget stewardship, business case integrity, portfolio affordability, investment sequencing, and benefits realization. Working closely with Finance and senior sponsors, they will embed performance management rigor through clear baselines, forecasts, milestones, benefit owners, transparent reporting, and disciplined intervention when initiatives are off track. What you'll do In this role, you will be accountable for the following: 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, including financials, resources, delivery health, risk exposure, milestones, benefits forecast vs. actuals, and dependency tracking to enable fact-based governance, early escalation, and course correction. Establish consistent portfolio routines, scorecards, thresholds, and recovery plans so performance issues are visible, owned, and resolved before they impact strategic outcomes Drive disciplined business cases and value assurance, partnering with Finance and sponsors to validate assumptions and hold benefit owners accountable for delivery. Provide executive-level reporting that clarifies progress, risks, trade-offs, outcomes, and competing priorities for C-suite stakeholders. Navigate complex stakeholder environments, resolving friction, influencing without authority, and creating clarity through ambiguity. Steward vendor relationships for contract and flexible resource pools — negotiating capacity, SLAs and performance metrics to maintain scalable delivery capability. Lead the annual Roadmap Refresh, translating enterprise strategy and external market insight into a prioritized three-year change plan. Enforce governance, risk, and issue-management standards while balancing pace with 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. What you'll bring Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, technology, project management) or equivalent experience Professional certification in project, program, or change management (e.g. PMP, MSP, PRINCE2, Prosci) preferred Accounting designation preferred, with CPA or equivalent financial qualification considered an asset. Significant leadership experience driving large-scale transformation, modernization, and organizational change initiatives. Strategic Portfolio Leadership: Proven ability to lead large transformation portfolios, prioritize investments, manage funding trade-offs, and deliver measurable enterprise outcomes. Executive Influence: Skilled at translating complex data, risks, and trade-offs into clear decisions for C-suite stakeholders and governance forums. Performance Management Rigor: Expe