Manager, Strategy & Planning

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Job Description:

Job Description:

• Support the development of segment specific AI strategies and identify opportunities for value creation.

• Support quarterly updates to the Artificial Intelligence House View (TD's enterprise position on a non-traditional risk or emerging risk).

• Lead value forecasting and realization for AI use cases and coordinate content for leadership results review cadences.

• Support the creation and management of key strategic documents and scorecards including briefings, memos, presentations and other communications for a senior executive audience (SVP/EVP, Senior Executive Team, CEO, Board of Directors).

• Lead competitive intelligence by actively monitoring the external landscape, keeping abreast of emerging trends, sharing developments and insights with senior executive audience, and ensuring AI CoE's priorities appropriately reflect changes in the AI landscape.

• Contribute to TD's internal and external communications on AI (conferences, press releases, regulatory updates etc.)

• Mentor and develop colleagues across the team

• Ensure an adherence to Bank's risk culture

Department Overview:

Fueled by the vision of being a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Layer 6 is the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) at TD. Layer 6 unites research, engineering, and product teams to quickly translate theory into impactful real-world applications. The Strategy and Operations team is responsible for the Enterprise AI strategy, business planning, external AI partnerships, end-to-end business operations, and driving adoption of AI best practices across the organization. We accomplish this by focusing on four key pillars:

Strategy & Planning: We define the Enterprise AI Strategy to help drive key strategic priorities for the enterprise, business segments and corporate functions. We lead the creation and management of key strategic documents and scorecards. We actively monitor the external landscape, keeping abreast of emerging trends, sharing developments and insights with senior executive audience, and ensuring AI CoE's priorities appropriately reflect changes in the AI landscape.

AI Partnerships: We develop and manage strategic partnerships with external organizations (e.g. Vector Institute, various universities, Cohere etc.) to enhance internal AI capabilities.

Practice Excellence: We drive the adoption and engagement of AI best practices across the organization including enhancing the capabilities of AI Practitioners within business segments to enable standardized AI use case delivery.

Operations: We lead business management and end to end operations including managing the intake process for new use cases, model monitoring, KPI reporting and the financial plan.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of business or strategy experience.

• MBA considered an asset. Prior experience or knowledge of AI/ML is considered an asset.

• Strong business acumen and a clear understanding of how the bank makes money.

• Experience making an impact in cross-functional groups through influence and by nurturing key relationships at all levels.

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and through ambiguity.

• Flexible to adapt and manage within a dynamic business environment.

Skills:

• Critical and strategic thinking skills to support balanced decision making.

• Strong analytical skills, with background in working with data and insights, conducting analysis, and writing reports/presentations.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, notably the ability to present complex information in a manner which is concise, simple and easy to understand.

• Superior interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, and negotiating skills.

• Ability to work with pace on multiple deliverables, meeting deadlines and thriving under pressure.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package
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Additional Information:
We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You'll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
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We look forward to hearing from you!

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