Job Description

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.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

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

Reporting to the AVP, Talent Management, this role is responsible for supporting and enabling a wide range of Talent initiatives and programs in SL Canada. This role will provide project management and event management support for talent, learning and recognition programs as well as support for other new and ongoing HR initiatives and strategic projects.

What will you do?

• Manage day-to-day oversite of online recognition platform (Applause) working with various stakeholders including HRBPs and Business representatives to manage requests and reporting

• Provide program management for iStars recognition celebration in SL Canada including nominations process, communications, points administration, and reporting. Partner with Event Services team to deliver iStar event including planning and vendor management

• Act as the SL Canada representative on the CEO’s Award program, including gathering and organizing nominations, answering HRBP questions and preparing materials for Executive team discussion

• Support the delivery of various global talent initiatives across SL Canada and in partnership with Global Talent teams, including: Employee Training, Career Development, Goal Setting and Performance, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition and Inclusion & Belonging, Workforce planning & transformation initiatives

• Provide team support as required e.g. organization of team events, management of team SharePoint site content & access, developing materials and communications, talent data analysis and other ad hoc requests

What do you need to succeed?

• Strong organizational, time management and process management skills necessary to maintain high-volume workload

• Comfortable and confident with ambiguity. Able to start projects with minimal direction and demonstrates sound judgement on when to involve leadership

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build relationships across Human Resources and CoEs

• Proven ability to support the execution and delivery of high-profile events

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Ability to create project plans and execute on deliverables and timing and communicate such plans to key stakeholders and partners

• Demonstrates strong ethics and trust with ability to handle sensitive confidential information

• Sufficient fluency with data and analytics to maintain accurate data on the programs/participants and create actionable insights

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products

Education and Experience:

• University degree with 3-6 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience in Talent Management, Learning & Development, Human Resources or similar field

What's in it for you?

• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family

• We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment. Our goal is to make sure all our employees have the chance to live up to their full potential

• We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2025 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada

• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®, for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health

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The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

60,000/60 000 - 97,000/97 000

Job Category:

Human Resources

Posting End Date:

08/08/2026