The Solution Acceleration & Innovation (SA&I) team strives to position RBC as a Global Leader in Innovation with a focus on emerging opportunities and technologies. The team builds new products and capabilities, with a primary focus on emerging technologies, payments, security, data and privacy. We are a multi-disciplinary team with workspaces in Toronto, ON and Orlando, FL consisting of cutting-edge technology researchers and experts, strategists, product managers, project managers, security and payments experts, developers and designers. This allows us the ability to not only generate a product concept but create and launch products in market.

What is the opportunity?

As the Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, you will be responsible for research, ideation, driving strategic initiatives, supporting commercialization and go-to-market of strategic SA&I assets and partnering to develop our horizontal strategies. You will be a change agent that recognizes the importance of enabling innovation and is not afraid to challenge the status quo.

What will you do?

• Supports in articulating the vision of the future of banking, and how to deliver on that vision, including strategy to enable RBC to be relevant in 5 years’ time amidst emerging threats, such as the changing distribution of financial services

• Hosts concept strategy/ideation workshops, designs and delivers customer journeys, business model and go to market strategy models to inform and demonstrate value of these strategies to multiple internal stakeholders and senior leaders

• Develops monetization and commercialization paths for initiatives that leverage the strengths of SA&I’s assets and capabilities

• Rapidly tests and proves new strategic concepts at the top of the funnel in partnership within SA&I or with internal and external partners

• Develops clear and concise ways of communicating new business models, product offerings and complex messages, such as but not limited to the creation of whitepapers, videos and PowerPoint

• Regularly scans the market developing ongoing intelligence, identifying emerging trends and opportunities while partnering with experts in areas of technology, such as emerging payments, decentralized technology (Blockchain), loyalty, security, data privacy and personalization to strategize and test desirability, viability and feasibility of ideas

• Supports Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) and Proof-of-Technology (PoT) that consider the integration of partner technologies to SA&I core assets, including specific to Central Bank Issued Digital Currencies (CBDC), stablecoins, non-fungible tokens (NFT), and decentralized finance (DeFi)

• Supports SA&I leadership to create an awesome work culture – leading and executing initiatives focused on ideation, collaboration, communication, team-building and ways of working for the SA&I team

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• Strategic mindset: Conceptual / framework thinking and strong problem solving; ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity

• Organizational skills: Plans and prioritizes with ability to oversee and/or be involved in multiple work streams concurrently

• Extremely strong communication, presentation methods (storyboard, visual communication) and interpersonal skills; strong proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel

• Entrepreneurial mindset: Proactive and has ability to drive to outcomes with limited oversight

Nice to have:

• Ideally 3+ years strategy or consulting experience in a Consulting Management, Financial Services, or Entrepreneurial environment, or other comparative experience

• Post-secondary degree (preferably in Business, Finance, Economics, other related discipline)

• Post-graduate degree - MBA/EMBA, Masters in finance, economics, accounting or a similar field

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Consistent access to training, education and professional development opportunities

• Be a part of a collaborative team that brings outside-in thinking to RBC