AVP, Health Data Strategy and Insights

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

**** Role Summary
**** Sun Life Health
** is one of the leading Health and Benefits providers in Canada, offering Canadians comprehensive group benefits and a portfolio of digital health products. We are a passionate group who like to take on big challenges in a supportive environment, grounded in our purpose of helping Canadians achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. We have an opportunity to use data to empower Canadians to take control of their health by personalizing health journeys, predicting health outcomes and preventing disease progression, and generating insights and research in partnership with the Canadian health ecosystem.

Reporting to the Vice President Strategy and Enablement , the AVP Health Data Strategy and Insights will be responsible for developing and executing our data analytics strategy to enable Sun Life Health in achieving sustainable competitive advantage and growth, and improving the health outcomes of our clients. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and fun environment with a focus on further maturing our data and data science capabilities, and developing and implementing our analytics strategy and initiatives.
* ** Data Analytics strategy development and execution**  + Develop and maintain analytics strategy that drives growth for Sun Life Health and improvements in Client health outcomes  + Evaluate and prioritize across opportunities to predict and prevent health outcomes, personalize the client health experience, generate value-adding research, and commercializing insights  + Partner with Sun Life Canada’s Client Experience Office to align with overall Canada data and analytics strategy  + Execute the analytics strategy, collaborating within Sun Life health and across functional groups as needed
* ** Data foundation transformation**  + Mature data foundations to support data analytics strategy, including further enabling personalization of Sun Life Health products  + Collaborate with Enterprise Data & Analytics, Data Architecture, and Technology teams to design and implement necessary data architecture and engineering
* ** Advanced analytics**  + Apply relevant data analytics methodologies (including AI & ML) to deliver on our strategy  + Lead execution of use cases and manage delivery both within the Data Science and Analytics teams, and collaborating with other Sun Life Canada businesses and functions as needed  + Operationalize analytical models in the field by addressing technology, process and change management requirements  + Collaborate with data analytics partners in Canada and Technology to leverage common capabilities, tools and assets
* ** Thought leadership and real world evidence**  + Develop and execute strategies to leverage real world data and evidence to generate actionable business insights and thought leadership, for internal and external audiences  + Lead a team of in designing and conducting observational studies using real world data sources - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify high-impact areas where real world evidence can inform decision making and/or inform client experience improvements and product development  + Develop and maintain relevant relationships within the Canadian health ecosystem and academic communities, and represent Sun Life Health as a thought leader  + Proactively foster relationships within Sun Life with business and functional partners to maintain an understanding of new developments in their areas
* ** Business Intelligence**  + Lead data driven decision…