Vice President - Productivity & Efficiency and Business Management

Job Description

Job Description What is the opportunity? As a VP and strategic leader embedded in the COO Office, you will drive competitive advantage across RBC Capital Markets by translating strategy into operational reality and sustainable value creation. Your mandate bridges three critical pillars: strategy and narrative, operational efficiency and fiscal discipline, with organizational capability building. You will serve as the strategic and operational backbone of the COO Group, shaping how productivity initiatives and organizational alignment translate into measurable business outcomes and stakeholder confidence. This role demands an operator-strategist, someone who combines deep analytical rigor with the narrative ability to synthesize complexity into clear strategic direction for executive audiences facing ambitious growth and transformation agendas. You will work at the intersection of Productivity & Efficiency (P&E) and Business Management, within the COO Office, ensuring the COO Group priorities and initiatives are coherently orchestrated rather than siloed. This role is equivalent to a Senior Manager or Associate Director level and is not a Finance role. What will you do? As a trusted strategic advisor to the COO and transformation leadership, you will own the narrative architecture and operational execution that connect strategy to outcomes: Strategy and narrative ownership. You will translate the P&E productivity agenda, and Capital Markets strategic priorities into a compelling, data-driven narrative for stakeholders. This includes articulating the "why" behind transformation - how it creates competitive advantage, enables growth investment, and sustains competitive positioning. You will develop integrated strategy documents, board-ready presentations, and capability-building roadmaps that make transformation tangible and urgent. Fiscal planning, measurement, and rigor. You will drive zero-based cost transparency across Capital Markets functions, establishing the true cost of running each business line. You will own Capital Markets fiscal planning cycles, integrate P&E initiatives into financial forecasts, and ensure that productivity gains are tracked, validated, and reinvested strategically. You will maintain an authoritative dashboard of ROI, program health, and efficiency benefits realization. Cross-functional orchestration and program governance. You will coordinate business unit leaders to ensure initiatives are sequenced strategically, dependencies are managed, and governance rigor is embedded. You will identify horizontal (cross-functional) opportunities that multiply impact and facilitate trade-off decisions when priorities compete for resources or attention. Stakeholder engagement and capability building. You will serve as trusted advisor to senior Capital Markets executives, business heads, and the COO office, providing strategic counsel on pace, organizational readiness, and risk. You will champion a culture of productivity and change

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