Manager, Strategic Enablement & Planning (4488)

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Job Description:

Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Compliance Monitoring & Testing Team, this role serves as a strategic partner to the AVP, focused on strengthening alignment, structure, and execution across the team. The Manager is responsible for improving how work is prioritized, coordinated, and communicated, ensuring greater cohesion, clarity, and flow across core functions. By building effective planning, reporting, and operating rhythms, this role enables consistent delivery, supports enterprise expectations, and helps embed scalable practices that enhance long-term effectiveness and resilience across the function.

The Manager, Strategic Enablement & Planning  will be expected to lead and support the following activities:

1. Strategic Planning & Prioritization

• Partner with the VP to define and refine organizational goals.

• Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.

• Monitor key initiatives and forecast risk/impact across teams

• Support organization of all quarterly planning activities inputs, help set team priorities for core functions – driving maturation and sustainability

• Works independently and often autonomously in the management of projects and key activities and operational disciplines and develops strategic thinking/ planning in the execution of work plans

2. Cross-Team Coordination, Execution & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead cross-functional project teams to achieve critical deliverables.

• Track progress against strategic goals, escalate issues appropriately.

• Embed structures for collaboration across key team pillars (i.e  M&T team, Central Services, and Operational)

• Coordinate cross-org partners, align on decisions, build and support critical relationships

3. Communication & Presentation Leadership

• Draft executive memos, decks, communications, presentations, briefs for Senior Compliance Executive audience (i.e. CSET members, VPs, AVPs)

• Draft, edit, and finalize executive communications and briefings.

• Prepare presentations, reports, talking points, and leadership updates.

• Ensure messaging is clear, aligned to enterprise goals, and adapted for audience (executive, risk committees, partners).

4. Process Design & Continuous Improvement

• Identify process gaps and design scalable, efficient workflows.

• Standardize operating procedures across teams (meeting norms, intake processes, reporting cadences).

• Drive adoption of new practices and tools that improve clarity and productivity.

• Standardize intake, milestones, drive clear organization and structure across the team

5. Project & Program Management

• Oversee planning, timelines, milestones, and resource allocations for key initiatives.

• Ensure key activities QoQ are aligned to overall enterprise risk and compliance objectives.

• Track progress, conduct appropriate follows-up with internal and external teams (SMs) and partners, risk logs, dependencies, support early awareness and engagement

• Provide status oversight and coordinate follow-up on action items.

• Support change management efforts across the team to support team maturation and sustainability

6. Executive Support & Decision Enablement

• Act as a strategic thought partner, offering insights and options for complex decisions.

• Anticipate needs, prepare recommendations, and summarize trade-offs.

• Manage internal “air traffic” of decisions, ensuring the AVP’s time is optimized.

Required Qualifications / Skills

Experience

• 7+ years in strategic operations, program management, consulting, or equivalent enterprise work.

• Demonstrated success in cross-functional environments with senior stakeholders.

• Experience managing complex programs, shaping process improvements, and driving change.

Skills

• Strong organization, prioritization, planning, and execution skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication (presentations, briefs), including ability to tailor messaging to varied audiences.

• Project leadership: scoping, sequencing, tracking, reporting.

• Process design & continuous improvement mindset.

• Relationship building and collaboration across functions.

Technical

• Proficiency with productivity and project tools (e.g., Microsoft 365 / Google/CoPilot Workspace, project tracking tools

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience supporting C-suite or AVP or VP-level leaders.

• Familiarity with governance frameworks and enterprise risk environments.

• Ability to synthesize complex information quickly and translate into action.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Communications, Project Management, or related field required.

• MBA or advanced degree preferred but not required.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package
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Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.  

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process 
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

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