AVP, Change Performance Management

Job Description

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

Reporting to the VP, Enterprise Transformation, the AVP, Change Performance Management plays a central role in enabling effective decision-making across Aviva Canada’s change portfolio. This role is responsible for enterprise-wide visibility of transformation activity, performance, and investment, ensuring our most important programs stay on track and deliver value.

Acting as a key partner to senior leaders, this role leads a lean team that drives portfolio insights, produces executive and board-level reporting, and stewards the rhythm of enterprise change governance. It is both a strategic and hands-on role requiring strong analytical capability, high attention to detail, and the ability to communicate with clarity and impact

Come join our team!

What you’ll do:

• Leading a team that delivers enterprise-wide portfolio insights, reporting, and analytics to support effective decision-making.

• Owning the end-to-end reporting cycle for the Change Investment Steering Committee (CIS), including monthly packs, forward agenda planning, and action tracking.

• Creating clear, concise, and visually effective materials for executive and board-level audiences.

• Ensuring all major change programs are accurately represented in our portfolio view, with performance tracked against cost, timeline, and outcomes.

• Partnering with Finance, HR, and other teams to align reporting on investment, resource capacity, and delivery performance.

• Overseeing the annual refresh of the enterprise transformation roadmap in collaboration with Business Units and Functions.

• Driving adoption of common performance metrics and reporting standards across the transformation ecosystem.

• Identifying portfolio-level risks, themes, and trends, and surfacing them early to enable proactive intervention.

• Supporting annual planning processes and scenario modeling to inform investment decisions.

• Acting as a center of excellence for change data quality, tooling, and governance practices.

• Managing a high-performing team and creating development opportunities aligned to individual strengths.

• Continuously improving the ways we capture, interpret, and communicate change performance across the enterprise.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in portfolio management, transformation reporting, or enterprise performance roles.

• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with the ability to turn complex information into actionable insight.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to craft executive-level materials and tell a compelling story through data.

• Experience producing board or ExCo-level reporting under tight deadlines.

• Deep understanding of change delivery practices and program lifecycle fundamentals.

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with senior stakeholders, including Finance, HR, and Strategy.

• Demonstrated people leadership capability, with experience developing high-performing teams.

• A continuous improvement mindset and a strong sense of accountability.

What you’ll get:

• Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

• Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

• We’ll support your professional development education.

• Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

• Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

• Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

• Hybrid flexible work model

Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is a new position which has been posted both internally & externally.

Aviva Canada has an accommodation process in place to provide accommodations for employees with disabilities. If upon commencement of employment you require a specific accommodation because of a disability, please contact your Talent Acquisition Partner so that an appropriate accommodation can be arranged. This process applies throughout your career with Aviva Canada.

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