Job Description

What is the opportunity?

To strengthen the horizontal coordination and execution capability of Data & Digital, the Strategic Engagement Manager bridges strategy and delivery, ensuring cross-domain alignment, vendor engagement support and solution implementation efficiency for the team.

As a Strategic Engagement Manager, you'll prevent silos, ensure cross-functional alignment across enterprise initiatives, team initiatives and support vendor relationships.

This is an opportunity to influence how the organization operates at scale—managing partnerships with key stakeholders, supporting solution alignment with strategy, advocating for efficiency in the team and enabling leadership with actionable insights. You'll be the connective tissue that translates strategic priorities into coordinated delivery and measurable outcomes.

What will you do?

• Coordinate engagements across Data & Digital execution teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and defining engagement frameworks.

• Support strategic vendor relationships from a business perspective: from selection, onboarding, solutioning through performance tracking and risk management.

• Support exploration and design for initiatives requiring involving multiple functions within the team (e.g., digital releases, vendor re-platforming, application decommission strategies).

• Facilitate solution design discussions ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and strategic goals (e.g. aligning data strategy to enterprise)

• Track initiatives health (timelines, risks, dependencies) and support issue resolution across execution teams.

• Support leadership with dashboards, KPI/OKR reports, roadmap updates, and strategy documentation.

• Identify areas for simplification, reuse, and consolidation and reduce duplication by building scalable frameworks that enable the team to operate more efficiently as demand grows.

• Anticipate cross-team impacts and proactively coordinate to mitigate risks and align with long-term strategic priorities.

What do you need to succeed?

Must haves:

• 2-4 years of experience in business analysis, product management, technology delivery, or related roles in data or technology.

• Experience in financial services with understanding of compliance requirements and enterprise technology ecosystems.

• Strong cross-functional coordination skills with proven ability to collaborate across domains.

• Executive communication expertise ability to prepare business cases, dashboards, and executive-level content summarizing complex concepts.

• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into actionable insights and conduct cost-benefit analyses.

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience level.

Nice-to-have:

• Vendor due diligence exposure and experience managing strategic partnerships.

• Project management experience

• Knowledge of technical principles and technology transformation initiatives.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

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

• Flexible work/life balance options.

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business.

Job Skills

Analytical Thinking, Communication, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Detail-Oriented, Independent Thinking, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Proactive Thinking, Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management, Technical Knowledge, Vendor Engagement

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-03-19

Application Deadline:

2026-04-02

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Compensation for this position (including salary and discretionary/variable payments) will be determined by factors, including but not limited to candidate's experience, skills, registration status, performance, individual goals, market conditions, and business needs.

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position is:

$67,000.00 - $110,000.00

The pay range provided is for the primary work location referenced in the Additional Job Details section of this job posting. Pay ranges may differ based on location. If the posting lists multiple job locations, a recruiter can confirm availability of the role and the relevant pay rage for the additional locations listed. RBC supports pay transparency and we strive to ensure all pay ranges are competitive, fair, and equitable.

You have the potential to earn RBC's discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided that business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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