Director, Enterprise Strategy, Risk and Transformation
Full-time, Permanent Position
Head Office, St. John’s, NL
Competition #: C1079-26
The Director, Enterprise Strategy, Risk and Transformation is a senior enterprise leader accountable for leading and integrating corporate strategy, enterprise risk management, and transformation execution to deliver measurable organizational outcomes.
Reporting to the Chief Financial and Information Officer, the Director serves as a principal strategic advisor to the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, enterprise risk, and resource allocation. The Director partners with executive and business leaders across the organization to deliver sustainable, long-term value and defined measurable outcomes from the project portfolio.
This is a unique opportunity to lead enterprise-wide strategy and transformation in a complex, highly visible public sector organization with significant impact on financial performance, governance, and public trust. This role operates at the centre of enterprise decision-making and is accountable for the successful delivery and benefits realization of priority strategic initiatives that drive long-term value for the organization.
Key responsibilities for the position include, but are not limited to:
- Lead and evolve the enterprise strategic planning process, ensuring alignment with risk, financial capacity, and long-term organizational objectives.
- Assess and evaluate strategic initiatives, defining clear outcome-driven measures and performance indicators for selected corporate priorities.
- Act as the enterprise risk leader, maintaining and evolving the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework and ensuring risk-informed decision-making across the organization.
- Coordinate the quarterly enterprise risk assessment and reporting process, as well as corporate business continuity and resilience planning, including periodic testing.
- Strengthen enterprise governance frameworks for strategic initiatives, ensuring clear accountability, disciplined execution, prioritization, and measurable benefits realization.
- Partner with Executive Sponsors to govern and deliver priority enterprise initiatives, holding stakeholders accountable for defined outcomes and benefits realization.
- Provide strategic advice and challenge to executive leadership and the Board on major initiatives, risks, and investment decisions.
- Define initiative scope, timelines, resource requirements, change management, and risk mitigation strategies, while ensuring accountability for successful outcomes.
- Drive cross-functional alignment between executive, business leaders, functional teams, and technology partners to define objectives, scope, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with strategy and successful execution.
- Apply appropriate project and change management practices to ensure disciplined and timely execution of strategic initiatives, adapting approaches based on project size, complexity and organizational impact.
- Oversee enterprise initiative delivery, ensuring achievement of defined financial, operational, and strategic outcomes and measurable benefits.
- Provide clear and timely reporting to the Executive Team and other stakeholders on initiative progress, emerging risks, and resolution options to support informed decision-making and successful delivery, overseeing timely completion of milestones by both business owners and technology teams.
- Lead the enterprise transformation agenda, ensuring organizational adoption, cultural alignment, and realization of intended strategic benefits.
- Lead and enable enterprise-wide adoption by delivering disciplined change management best practices during transition, coordinating the development of training and comprehensive support documentation.
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree (Business Administration, Commerce, Finance or a related field) and 10+ years of progressive leadership experience, including significant experience in enterprise strategy, risk management, transformation, or management consulting within complex organizations. An equivalent combination of education and work experience can be considered.
- An accomplished enterprise leader with a proven ability to influence executive and Board-level decision-making and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
- A strategic thinker with excellent leadership, facilitation, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, guiding decision-making.
- Proven ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, ensuring adherence to deadlines, project governance and quality standards.
- Experience working with senior executives and Boards.
- Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives or transformation within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Experience influencing enterprise investment decisions.
- Ability to maintain a positive team culture while fostering collaboration, communication, and empowering team members across the enterprise to contribute their best and achieve outcome-driven metrics.
- Strong project and initiative management capabilities, with the ability to scale approaches based on requirements.
- Strong business and financial acumen.
- Experience with public sector entities and/or retail environments, including sales, supply chain, logistics, marketing, finance, as well as human resource processes and systems, would be considered an asset.
- Certifications in leadership or project management, such as PMP, would be considered an asset.
NLC values diversity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace and strives to create a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. We welcome and encourage applications from under-represented groups such as: Indigenous persons, racially visible persons, persons with a disability, women, and persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity. If you are a member of an under-represented group, we invite you to self-identify on your cover letter or resume. Accommodations for job applicants with disabilities (differing abilities) are available on request.
Salary: HL-27 $98, 319.59-$127, 815.09 (pending classification)
Closing Date: July 24, 2026
Applicants must apply via UKG
Please note, while we appreciate the interest of all candidates, only those selected for an interview
Preferred
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Bachelor's degree or better in Finance
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Bachelor's degree or better in Business Administration
