About the role
Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.
Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.
We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 665,000 members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.
Join us to accelerate your growth& development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.
Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.
Know someone at OMERS or Oxford Properties? Great! If you're referred, have them submit your name through Workday first. Then, watch for a unique link in your email to apply.
TheDirector, Transformation will manage initiatives to transform Investment Finance and Operations, driving strategic change initiatives that reshape operating models, enhance front-to-back processes, and deliver measurable enterprise value.
Reporting to the SVP, Portfolio Solutions and Change, this role is accountable for translating strategy into execution— aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring successful adoption of new capabilities across the investment lifecycle.
The Director will act as asenior transformation leader and operator, working across business, finance, technology, and operations to deliver sustained organizational change, improved performance, and long-term scalability.
We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. Our hybrid work guideline requires teams to come to the office a minimum of 4 days per week.
Transformation Strategy& Execution
- Execute initiatives and have responsibilities for thedesign, execution, and continuous evolution of the IFO transformation roadmap, aligned to enterprise strategic priorities.
- Translate high-level strategy intointegrated transformation plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Ensure transformation initiatives arevalue-driven, with clear linkage to business performance, efficiency, and scalability.
- Embed transformation disciplines (change, program delivery, governance, risk) across initiatives to ensure consistency and control.
Functional Transformation Leadership
- Provideend-to-end leadership across major transformation programs, ensuring alignment across business, technology, data, and operations.
- Drivefront-to-back process optimization and integration, enhancing the investment management lifecycle.
- Lead resolution ofcross-functional dependencies, risks, and design decisions impacting transformation success.
- Act as akey decision-making authority within the transformation governance framework.
Target Operating Model (TOM)& Organizational Design
- Manage initiatives for the creation and implementation of a standardizedTarget Operating Model, including “As Is” diagnostics, future-state architecture, and transition planning.
- EnsureTOM design aligns with strategic objectives, regulatory considerations, and operational scalability.
- Leadorganizational design, role definition, and capability mapping required to support the future-state model.
- Oversee staged implementation and adoption of new structures, processes, and ways of working.
- Oversee thebusiness process analysis and documentation of IFO processes ensuring alignment to Target Operating Model and IFO service model.
Stakeholder Leadership& Strategic Influence
- Serve as atrusted advisor to senior executives and program sponsors, influencing key transformation decisions.
- Drive alignment across business units, ensuring shared ownership and accountability for transformation outcomes.
- Build and maintainstrong partnerships across investment teams, corporate functions, and technology.
- Lead executive-level communications, including progress updates, risks, and performance insights.
Transformation Governance, Risk& Value Realization
- Establish and overseerobust governance frameworks, ensuring effective decision-making and accountability.
- Monitor transformation progress throughKPIs, milestones, and value realization metrics.
- Identify, assess, and mitigateprogram-level risks, interdependencies, and delivery challenges.
- Ensure initiatives deliversustainable benefits and measurable business outcomes.
- Bring deep experience ofinvestment management lifecycle to refine and enhance the Aladdin centric operating model.
Leadership& Capability Building
- Lead and scale ahigh-performing, multi-disciplinary transformation team (PMs, BAs, change practitioners).
- Build enterprise capability in transformation delivery, includingtools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Foster a culture ofcontinuous improvement, accountability, and innovation across the organization.
- Mentor and develop leaders across transformation workstreams.
Experience
- 15+ years of experience leadinglarge-scale, enterprise transformation programs within complex financial institutions.
- Proven experience deliveringfront-to-back transformation across investment, finance, or operations functions.
- Strong track record inTarget Operating Model design, organizational transformation, and program delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to operate atsenior executive level, influencing strategic decisions.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise inenterprise transformation, change management, and program delivery frameworks
- Strong leadership experience managingmulti-disciplinary teams and complex stakeholder environments
- Exceptional executive communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to drivemeasurable business outcomes and value realization
- Strong understanding of theinvestment management lifecycle and supporting platforms
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or transformation/change certifications (e.g., PROSCI, ACMP) preferred
- Experience withbusiness process reengineering (Lean/Six Sigma) highly desirable
- Ability to operate in afast-paced, evolving, and highly complex environment
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.
From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.
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About OMERS
Founded in 1962, OMERS is one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, with $133.6 CAD billion in net assets as of June 30, 2024.
With employees in our offices in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe, OMERS invests and administers pensions for over half a million active, deferred and retired employees of 1,000 municipalities, school boards, libraries, police and fire departments, and other local agencies in communities across Ontario.
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About the role
Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.
Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.
We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 665,000 members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.
Join us to accelerate your growth& development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.
Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.
Know someone at OMERS or Oxford Properties? Great! If you're referred, have them submit your name through Workday first. Then, watch for a unique link in your email to apply.
TheDirector, Transformation will manage initiatives to transform Investment Finance and Operations, driving strategic change initiatives that reshape operating models, enhance front-to-back processes, and deliver measurable enterprise value.
Reporting to the SVP, Portfolio Solutions and Change, this role is accountable for translating strategy into execution— aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring successful adoption of new capabilities across the investment lifecycle.
The Director will act as asenior transformation leader and operator, working across business, finance, technology, and operations to deliver sustained organizational change, improved performance, and long-term scalability.
We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. Our hybrid work guideline requires teams to come to the office a minimum of 4 days per week.
Transformation Strategy& Execution
- Execute initiatives and have responsibilities for thedesign, execution, and continuous evolution of the IFO transformation roadmap, aligned to enterprise strategic priorities.
- Translate high-level strategy intointegrated transformation plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Ensure transformation initiatives arevalue-driven, with clear linkage to business performance, efficiency, and scalability.
- Embed transformation disciplines (change, program delivery, governance, risk) across initiatives to ensure consistency and control.
Functional Transformation Leadership
- Provideend-to-end leadership across major transformation programs, ensuring alignment across business, technology, data, and operations.
- Drivefront-to-back process optimization and integration, enhancing the investment management lifecycle.
- Lead resolution ofcross-functional dependencies, risks, and design decisions impacting transformation success.
- Act as akey decision-making authority within the transformation governance framework.
Target Operating Model (TOM)& Organizational Design
- Manage initiatives for the creation and implementation of a standardizedTarget Operating Model, including “As Is” diagnostics, future-state architecture, and transition planning.
- EnsureTOM design aligns with strategic objectives, regulatory considerations, and operational scalability.
- Leadorganizational design, role definition, and capability mapping required to support the future-state model.
- Oversee staged implementation and adoption of new structures, processes, and ways of working.
- Oversee thebusiness process analysis and documentation of IFO processes ensuring alignment to Target Operating Model and IFO service model.
Stakeholder Leadership& Strategic Influence
- Serve as atrusted advisor to senior executives and program sponsors, influencing key transformation decisions.
- Drive alignment across business units, ensuring shared ownership and accountability for transformation outcomes.
- Build and maintainstrong partnerships across investment teams, corporate functions, and technology.
- Lead executive-level communications, including progress updates, risks, and performance insights.
Transformation Governance, Risk& Value Realization
- Establish and overseerobust governance frameworks, ensuring effective decision-making and accountability.
- Monitor transformation progress throughKPIs, milestones, and value realization metrics.
- Identify, assess, and mitigateprogram-level risks, interdependencies, and delivery challenges.
- Ensure initiatives deliversustainable benefits and measurable business outcomes.
- Bring deep experience ofinvestment management lifecycle to refine and enhance the Aladdin centric operating model.
Leadership& Capability Building
- Lead and scale ahigh-performing, multi-disciplinary transformation team (PMs, BAs, change practitioners).
- Build enterprise capability in transformation delivery, includingtools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Foster a culture ofcontinuous improvement, accountability, and innovation across the organization.
- Mentor and develop leaders across transformation workstreams.
Experience
- 15+ years of experience leadinglarge-scale, enterprise transformation programs within complex financial institutions.
- Proven experience deliveringfront-to-back transformation across investment, finance, or operations functions.
- Strong track record inTarget Operating Model design, organizational transformation, and program delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to operate atsenior executive level, influencing strategic decisions.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise inenterprise transformation, change management, and program delivery frameworks
- Strong leadership experience managingmulti-disciplinary teams and complex stakeholder environments
- Exceptional executive communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to drivemeasurable business outcomes and value realization
- Strong understanding of theinvestment management lifecycle and supporting platforms
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or transformation/change certifications (e.g., PROSCI, ACMP) preferred
- Experience withbusiness process reengineering (Lean/Six Sigma) highly desirable
- Ability to operate in afast-paced, evolving, and highly complex environment
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.
From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.
Not the right fit? Search for Director, Transformation jobs in Toronto, ON
About OMERS
Founded in 1962, OMERS is one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, with $133.6 CAD billion in net assets as of June 30, 2024.
With employees in our offices in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe, OMERS invests and administers pensions for over half a million active, deferred and retired employees of 1,000 municipalities, school boards, libraries, police and fire departments, and other local agencies in communities across Ontario.