Vice-President, Corporate Strategy

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The Vice-President, Corporate Strategy is accountable for identifying opportunities that will optimize the diverse businesses within CIBC Capital Markets, to drive consistent and sustainable earnings growth, improve client experience, and top tier shareholder returns. In partnership with CIBC senior leaders and global line of business (LOB) leaders, key areas of focus include defining and implementing an integrated, interdisciplinary, cross-business strategy by:

• Identifying strategic opportunities that maximize benefit to existing clients by expanding our share of wallet across the full breadth of CIBC’s product offerings;

• Driving the execution of our client focused strategy, targeting activities that add value to our best and most profitable client relationships; and

• Identifying opportunities with new clients, new regions or new products that will contribute to CIBC’s strategy.

The Vice-President is also accountable for working with other VPs and the Executive Vice-President, Enterprise Strategy & Corporate Finance to drive the formulation of CIBC’s strategy and the development of CIBC’s strategic planning processes. This includes providing strategic leadership and oversight of CIBC’s transformational initiatives.

As an organizational leader, this role champions:

CIBC employee experience principles:

• Always professional… so our team members can excel and be their best professional self.

• Radically simple… so our team members can focus on what they need to do and make an impact.

• Genuinely caring… so our team members can feel valued for who they are and what they contribute.

CIBC leadership capabilities:

• Envisions the future…to innovate purposefully to create new value and harness new capabilities in order to meet the evolving needs of our diverse stakeholders.

• Inspires hearts and minds…to build an inclusive culture where we make bold choices, collaborate, and empower others to take chances and do what’s right for our stakeholders.

• Drives action and impact, together…to align with urgency around what matters, making decisions with speed and always making a real difference.

What You’ll be Doing

Partner with the Head of Capital Markets business and Capital Markets Executive Committee in setting CIBC’s Capital Markets strategic direction through the development of short and long term strategy and business plans, including:

• Developing the strategic direction and plan for Capital Markets in alignment with CIBC’s overall strategic priorities and goals;

• Actively participating in executive, business, and functional team leadership management meetings to provide strategic perspective and provide effective challenge, as required;

• Reviewing business and functional group strategies for alignment with CIBC’s overall strategic direction and stakeholder expectations;

• Delivering strategic plans to the Capital Markets Executive Committee and CIBC’s Executive Committee for information and/or approval;

• Managing the communication of CIBC’s strategy to team members at all levels of the organization and other stakeholders, as required;

• Monitoring progress against stated strategies and providing guidance to re-align or re-focus efforts as appropriate;

• Escalating issues that may affect strategy execution or that may require a change to strategy (i.e., market or economic changes).    

Establish and maintain a network of strategic relationships (e.g., CIBC key stakeholders, financial sector business leaders, government agencies, investors) in order to:

• Gather market and competitive intelligence and trends to translate client and general population demographics into business implications;

• Keep abreast of changes in the external market in an effort to protect CIBC brand and market positioning within the financial services industry;

• Monitor competitor activities, market conditions, and identify product and market opportunities to maximize benefits;

• Understand competitors’ strategies, marketing, products, and service offerings in order to increase market co