Director, Real Estate Strategic Initiatives And Enablement, Business Financial Services

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Job Title

Director, Real Estate Strategic Initiatives and Enablement, Business Financial Services

What is the opportunity?

Overall, the Director of Real Estate Strategic Initiatives and Enablement plays a critical role in BFS’s success as they focus on supporting strategies (product, pricing, policy, and people) to serve unique sector-specific client needs.

You are responsible for leveraging sector management strategy and combining it with competitive intel and input from partners in the field to formulate clear tactics designed to deliver improved financial performance, client satisfaction, market share growth and competitive advantage.

You are also responsible for impacting enablement of real estate training and learning across the platform including business partners, complementing established resources to help achieve the desired financial performance, market share, client experience goals and protection of RBC’s competitive advantage. This job requires expert knowledge of the commercial lending market and competitor practices.

What will you do?

Strategic Initiatives

• Add new complimentary dimensions (e.g. strategic partnerships) to enhance competitiveness
• Identify new innovative ways to engage our clients and teams, solve client and advisor irritants, determine opportunities to delight clients and advisors, improve delivery of our products and services, support upskilling of our teams in the field,
• Deliver client insights for unique product needs to Product teams by segment and/or industry sub-segment based on impact to relevant benefits as outlined by the strategy
• Act as a conduit for innovation and feedback with respect to what’s working, areas of opportunity and assessment of tactical implementation related to developed sector strategy
• A key agent for change, you must establish and maintain collaborative connectivity across BFS, risk partners, the field and other key stakeholders across the broader enterprise.

Enablement

• Deep analytical understanding of the risk drivers for real estate lending
• Provide thought leadership on data infrastructure, usage and automation
• Develop training and learning materials and delivery mechanism for the sector, leveraging existing resources and forward thinking the needs of underwriting, origination and advisors.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Strong network of relationships with key RBC influencers and stakeholders
• Strong analytical and relationship development skills
• Expert knowledge of real estate
• Credit experience and understanding of RBC business suite of products
• University degree in business, economics or equivalent

Nice-to-have

• MBA
• Extensive knowledge in risk management

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.

• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

Job Summary

Address:

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

City:

CAN-ON-TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Personal and Commercial Banking

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2023-05-09

Application Deadline:

2023-05-23

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.

We also strive to provide an accessible candidate experience for our prospective employees with different abilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.

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