We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients. At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute. To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com (https://www.cibc.com/en/about-cibc.html) **What You’ll Be Doing** Reporting to the Senior Director, Distribution Strategy, the Senior Manager, Distribution Strategy will support the development of the strategic roadmap for the Personal Banking and Imperial Service businesses as well as play a key role in special initiatives and pilots to ensure strategic alignment and prioritization. The Senior Manager, will be responsible to help senior management to investigate, analyze, and execute short-term strategic initiatives and long-term strategic plans focused on accelerating the growth of our business. You will support our strategic planning across the lines of business within Personal Banking and Imperial Service (PB&IS) and play a key role in helping the leadership team set in place a strategic agenda and an integrated plan. The Senior Manager will also contribute to the development and execution of our omni-channel distribution strategy, which encompasses our banking centres, frontline roles, technology, tools and platforms to support the delivery of key capabilities in support of PB&IS’s strategy. _At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role you’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 2-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote._ **How You’ll Succeed** + **Strategy design and development** – Support the development of long term omni-channel strategies. Draw on market research to bring forward trends and industry best practices to develop recommendations. Synthesize business objectives and current operating model strengths and weaknesses to drive change. + **Strategic problem solving** – Frame complex problems to be addressed, identify and execute required analysis with analytics partners, and synthesize key findings to help the teams reach decisions. Perform deep dives of Banking Centre Strategy and map the value chain and opportunities in a story telling approach. + **Presentation and analysis** – Develop and prepare executive presentation materials, performance and metric materials and ad-hoc requests including leading and developing strategic and financial analysis, insights and recommendations, and collaborating with key stakeholders, including Analytics and Finance partners. + **Consulting –** Foster collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders and peers. Provide value-added advisory support on strategic direction and best practices. Participate and support in-flight projects to ensure that the strategic vision and benefits are realized. Stay connected with the client journey and engage with our frontline partners regularly to understand the current strengths and challenges **Who You Are** + **You have a degree** in Business or Finance/Economics. + **You can demonstrate highly developed knowledge** of strategic planning principles sufficient to identify and develop initiatives. You have a strong understanding of Personal & Business Banking and enhanced technical knowledge in order to deal with complex problems independently. + **You** **can demonstrate 3 to 5 years of work** experience in analytics and working with large, complex data sets to link data to the financials to make business decisions and assess how to leverage it to make strategic decisions. + **You have strong analytical and financial acumen** with developed knowledge in several areas of industry/client/regulatory activity sufficient to interpret, analyze and apply relevant issues and developments. + **You have strong technical skills.** You can demonstrate financial modeling skills in working with large datasets and ability to synthesize complex problems and solutions to “easy to understand” concepts. + **You are a problem solver.** You have creative problem solving skills sufficient to resolve or identify innovative alternatives or opportunities where established procedures for problems sometimes do not exist. + **You deliver with urgency.** You have the ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups or activities. Effective judgment in prioritizing and time allocation + **You are detail oriented.** You understand that success is in the details. You notice things that others don't. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making. + **Your influence makes an impact.** You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You have well-developed presentation skills, highly-developed writing skills, and influential skills sufficient to accomplish "significant" promotion & negotiation on CIBC’s behalf and to convince others of the value of preferred options or alternatives in situations where distinct differences of opinion or approach exist. + **Values matter to you.** You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability **What CIBC Offers** At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. + We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive compensation, a banking benefit*, wellbeing support and additional offers such as employee and family assistance programs and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program. + Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients. *Subject to program terms and conditions **What you need to know** + CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com + You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit + We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills tests (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency, MS Office). Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us. **Expected End Date** 2026-11-27 **Job Location** Toronto-81 Bay, 24th Floor **Employment Type** Regular **Weekly Hours** 37.5 **Skills** Business Acumen, Collaborative Partnerships, Customer Journey Management, Executive Presenting, Retail Analytics, Roadmap Management, Stakeholder Influence, Strategic Alignment, Strategic Planning, Strategic Prioritization At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability. Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel. Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.