Job description: At , we strive to build value for the people who choose us every day: our people, our clients and our investors. We do this by holding true to the values that guide us. We put people first and build relationships with intention. We seek out and embrace new ideas, knowing that better is always possible. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. And we harness the power of inclusion. Our culture is who we are and how we show up – as individuals and as a team – to accomplish our strategy.

Roles Specifications

Everyday flexibility. Hybrid work environments. On-site requirements. Collaborative connections.

Put a new spin on your banking career

Canadian Western Bank (CWB) is the only full-service bank in Canada with a strategic focus to meet the unique financial needs of businesses and their owners. Our teams take a relationship-based approach to deliver a uniquely proactive client experience through highly personalized service, specialized expertise, customized solutions, and faster response times. We provide full-service business and personal banking, nation-wide specialized financing in targeted industries, comprehensive wealth management offerings, and trust services.

Our highly engaged teams operate within a client-centric, collaborative, and change-ready culture, with a core focus to achieve our vision to become the best full-service bank for business owners in Canada as we continue to transform our capabilities, united as one.

The opportunity

Lead and achieve strategic business development objectives to build and maintain a high-value portfolio of large, diversified commercial clients. Works closely with product partners to develop the right products to tap market opportunities. Oversees & ensures risk-reward parameters within acceptable levels towards achieving efficient business performance. This individual contributor role is acts as the “face of CWB” in the market and is responsible to deliver full-service banking and financial solutions for CWB clients, with underwriting support from internal partners.

Foundational knowledge and experience to grow from

A Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, commerce, finance, or accounting with a minimum of 8 years’ experience in business banking, mid-market commercial lending, and sales related experience. Honed experience developing and implementing successful sales strategies. Real estate lending experience would be a definite asset. Equivalent experience is accepted.

Capabilities that set you apart

Client centric, collaborative & change ready. We deliver outstanding client experiences at every interaction and execute on plans to continuously build a differentiated experience, in line with CWB’s brand promise. We provide full-service solutions for clients with the view to be every client’s primary financial partner, working seamlessly with colleagues and peers across our organization to deliver a united & unrivalled experience.

Sales motivated: Implement an independent marketing plan to achieve targeted business growth mix, with a focus on larger mid-market commercial clients ($10MM+ loan and deposit volume) inclusive of independent sales activities:

Targeted outbound call program

Referral generating program

Business community and industry networking

Developing self-generated leads

Regimented follow-up calendar

Relationship focused: Build a relationship strategy for each client, identifying the key issues surrounding the relationship and implement a strategy to facilitate the expansion of our partnership with the business.

Financially savvy. Practiced skills in financial statement analysis and concrete know-how of effective risk mitigation strategies for credit underwriting.

Market knowledge: Maintain extensive knowledge of clients and prospects, market, competition and economic factors, alongside robust understanding of key business issues and trends.

Experienced negotiator: Optimize business and client relationships while practicing good judgement in environment to make win/win determinations.

Adaptable: Identify and respond to changes in the business environment, establishing action plans to address customer issues and priorities.

Trusted partner: Be highly visible, crafting personal credibility and increased CWB brand awareness & presence with larger businesses and related professionals. To be known as a trusted business advisor, sought after for financial guidance.

Winning aspiration. We thrive in a dynamic environment arising from diverse responsibilities, complex processes, multiple stakeholders, and shifting deadlines by utilizing effective prioritization, planning, escalation, and teamwork. We thrive because we are proactive and purposeful. We have proven to be dependable, reliable, and execute with keen determination.

A true #tealmate. We live & champion CWB values. Represent the CWB Brand with honour and integrity, embodying our culture in a way that prioritizes collaboration and respects individuality. We are an advocate & and an ally for all, actively promoting inclusion and accepting of all differences. Respecting all & each other, to succeed as one – oneCWB growing together.

Why work with us?

Your success is our obsession! And our benefits back it up.

Wellness matters. We offer an award-winning benefits package that includes hybrid work environments, everyday flexibility, company-funded health coverage, health care spending account, a flexible wellness program & generous time-away options to unplug, rest & recover. Bring your whole self to work. Inclusion is a journey requiring practice & experience to result in a powerful outcome. Your perspective matters & voice will be heard. Find community within the CWB family in our employee represented groups. Career development. We commit to our employees’ development and help them reach their professional goals with organization wide coaching services, mentorship, education support & training programs. Strategic career design is an investment in our core asset – our people. Innovation. Learn. Grow. Enhance. At CWB, we play to win. When we fail, we fail forward. Recognition. Peer-to-peer recognition programs for “in the moment” and monumental wins. Community giving. Make a difference. Drive economic prosperity in your community. Get involved. Volunteer. Fundraise. All with CWB support. ESG & sustainability focused. Be proud of where you spend, work & invest. Financial rewards. Base salary & pay for performance incentives. Retirement investment strategy. You can’t work forever! So, we’ve got you covered. Company ownership. No greater sense of motivation & empowerment than being an owner.

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As an equitable employer, CWB Financial Group is committed to providing a safe and where a diverse workforce thrives. You are welcomed and encouraged to bring your whole self to work. Dignity, respect and equality are non-negotiables. If you require during any part of the recruitment or selection process, please reach out.

Closing Date:

• Position closes at 12:01am on the close date identified below. 01/30/2024

Expected salary:

Location: Mississauga, ON

Job date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:31:38 GMT

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Job description: We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Assistant Vice President, Canada Data Office role is responsible for leading and implementing a strategic roadmap for collecting, storing, and processing enterprise & divisional data to support and enable analytics, digital transformation and operational improvements. This involves researching, recommending and choosing optimal solutions to lead and implement modern data architecture as well as maintaining and supervising the success of these solutions. The incumbent must have a passion for how data can be proven and used to drive deeper, relevant insights that enhance the customer experience, grow our businesses, minimize risk and engage our employees globally.

The role involves leading a team of highly skilled data engineering professionals and implementing industry standard methodologies around data technology and governance to ensure business and analytical needs are well understood and satisfied. The incumbent will participate in long range strategic planning that addresses sophisticated data management challenges. Projects are highly sophisticated, complex and involve many partners. The overall accountabilities support analytics, executive decision making and direct customer- facing activities. In addition, the role provides thought leadership and consultative support to the many data activities across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Enable software development across Canada segment business priorities through an embedded team of data analysts, architects and data engineers, with a focus on accelerating consistent implementation of engineering patterns and approaches to deliver on key business priorities across Group Benefits, Bank and Insurance
• Aligning to and in partnership with the Global Data Office, guide, contribute and adopt the development and evolution of engineering patterns, standard methodologies, and reference implementations to consistently increase the rate of sharing and reuse globally
• Promote and adopt data governance and stewardship by embedding the data product concepts within the software development lifecycle
• Responsible for ensuring all data management processes conform to standard operating procedures and provide guidance around data quality, metadata management, data stewardship and security, and access controls
• Ability & preference to work in an Agile environment with quarterly increment planning
• Build and develop strong relationships horizontally across business units and partners to help build shareholder value with data
• Bring strong operational and engineering excellence and ability to drive continuous improvement
• Maintain an enterprise view on the evolution of data technologies and software engineering, and champion experimentation and implementation of emerging technologies including Generative AI

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

What we are looking for

• Over 10 years of demonstrated success architecting and delivering data-centric initiatives and platforms
• Over 10 years of experience with Waterfall and Agile project delivery methodologies, as well as DevOps/DataOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other software development lifecycle approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
• Experience in Financial Services (e.g., banking, brokerages, asset management, insurance)
• Experimenting with emerging technologies and understanding how they will impact what comes next
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to lead through creative abrasion
• Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes across all levels in the organization
• Developing junior data analysts and data engineers, and a passion for growing staff within the organization

You will be working with:

• Operational and Informational data integration technologies and platforms (e.g. Azure Synapse, ADLS, Databricks, SQL Server, Purview, Azure MLOps and OpenAI)
• Cloud infrastructure and other components supporting a highly-automated global engineering platform.(Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD)
• Languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, Python and other similar technologies
• Business Intelligence & Analytics tools (e.g. Python, Power BI, Tableau)
• Innovative Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning software
• Digital and mobile technologies

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

• Values-first culture: We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
• Boundless opportunity: We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
• Continuous innovation: We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
• Championing Corporate Citizenship: We build a business that benefits all partners and has a positive social and environmental impact.

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About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact .

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location CAN, Ontario, Toronto, 200 Bloor Street East

Salary range is expected to be between $120,400.00 CAD – $223,700.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:09:07 GMT

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