Manager, Operational Resilience and Continuity

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.

Job Description:

The Manager, Operational Resilience and Continuity, supports Sun Life's enterprise Operational Resilience and Business Continuity program by providing second-line oversight, effective challenge, training, advisory support, and resilience expertise across Business Groups.

The role helps strengthen the organization's ability to prevent, respond to, recover from, and adapt to operational disruptions by supporting the integration of Business Continuity Management, Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, and third-party resilience within a unified Operational Resilience framework. Through review, challenge, analysis, training, and stakeholder engagement, the role supports the development of sustainable resilience capabilities, regulatory compliance, and resilience outcomes across the enterprise.

What will you do?

Operational Resilience Oversight & Challenge

• Provide independent second-line oversight, effective challenge, and advisory support across Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, and Crisis Management activities
• Assess resilience risks, vulnerabilities, capability gaps, and policy compliance, escalating material concerns through established governance processes

Resilience Capability Development

• Support the evolution of Operational Resilience frameworks, policies, standards, methodologies, tools, training, and guidance
• Help integrate Business Continuity Management into the broader Operational Resilience framework and support capability uplift across Business Groups

Resilience Lifecycle & Scenario Testing

• Review and challenge critical operations assessments, dependency mapping, Business Impact Analyses, resilience planning, recovery strategies, third-party contingency planning, and resilience testing activities
• Support the design, execution, and evaluation of severe-but-plausible resilience scenarios and exercises

Reporting & Insights

• Develop resilience reporting, metrics, dashboards, and risk insights for management, governance committees, and regulatory purposes
• Identify trends, emerging risks, and opportunities to strengthen resilience capabilities and outcomes

Stakeholder Engagement & Training

• Provide training, guidance, and subject matter expertise to Business Groups, Risk Officers, and other stakeholders
• Build strong partnerships across Operational Risk, Technology, Cyber, Third-Party Risk Management, and Business Group teams to promote integrated resilience outcomes

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Leverage data, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to enhance resilience assessments, reporting, monitoring, and decision-making
• Promote continuous improvement and simplification of resilience processes and capabilities across the enterprise

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years of experience in Operational Resilience, Operational Risk, Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, Third-Party Risk Management, or related disciplines
• Strong analytical, reporting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
• Experience supporting governance, oversight, risk management, and regulatory programs
• Professional certification (e.g., BCI, DRI, CBCP, ORM, CRISC, CISA or equivalent) is an asset

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 2026 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:

85,000/85 000 - 128,000/128 000

Job Category:

Risk Management

Posting End Date:

22/11/2026