Senior Strategic Planning Advisor

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Position Highlights

ICBC’s Road Safety Department has an exciting opportunity for an analytical thinker to join our team as a Senior Strategic Planning Advisor. This internal consulting role is ideal for a professional with initiative, vision, and curiosity who thrives in complex environments and brings diverse experience in strategy, consulting, and business transformation.

Supporting the Director of Road Safety, you will play a key role in shaping and enabling the successful development and delivery of corporate and departmental road safety strategies. You will help translate strategic objectives into actionable plans and performance metrics, while continuously refining planning processes and supporting the execution of high-impact initiatives through stakeholder engagement.

Key accountabilities include:

• Working to promote best practices including development of actionable strategies, promotion of effective policies, adoption of standards in data collection, analysis, reporting, support for changes to create safe transportation for all road users.
• Developing and implementing detailed system-wide road safety stakeholder engagement strategies on issues relating to road risks, supporting active transportation and sustainable mobility.
• Providing strategic leadership on built environment factors like active transportation and community planning that influence road safety and adoption of alternate transportation modes.
• Using data driven, evidence-led approaches to explore data sources to inform the development of new road safety initiatives, understand their success factors, and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Supporting the development of road safety strategies to guide internal planning, prioritization and recommendations for improvement.
• Monitoring and reporting on strategy execution and performance, including developing governance structures and identifying issues to ensure outcomes and benefits are achieved.
• Providing strategic input into business decisions, using a structured, data-driven approach to build consensus and alignment.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with executive leadership and senior management to foster strategic alignment and support.

This role operates in an environment with a high degree of complexity that will require a comprehensive understanding of our business, organization, and operating environment. It also at times entails operating within a high degree of ambiguity, requiring initiative to seek and drive clarity through excellent facilitation techniques, flexibility, thought leadership, and complex problem-solving capabilities. 

Position Requirements

 The successful candidate will have demonstrated:

• Solid understanding of best practices in systemic and wholistic approaches to road safety including Canadian and international road safety crash reduction strategies and how these relate to crashes in BC.
• Experience working in a corporate strategy role in a road safety program or initiatives environment, with exposure to strategy management and executive strategy formulation and decision making.
• Cognizance of key road safety stakeholders, how they relate to road safety strategic programs and demonstrated use of stakeholder engagement strategies.
• Excellent facilitation, persuasion and negotiation abilities to achieve consensus, resolve conflict and achieve desired outcomes.
• Executive-level communication and influence with exceptional oral, written, and graphic (PowerPoint) communication skills and the ability to distill complex information into a compelling story.
• Strong relationship building skills across all levels of the organization and external road safety related organizations, with an ability to work comfortably in a group/collaborative setting.
• Results driven and proactive, with a demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, tight deadlines, and constraints, while adapting to meet the ever-changing needs of the organization.
• Demonstrated knowledge of management consulting and strategic planning methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tools.

The ideal candidate will hold either an undergraduate degree, a professional designation (e.g. PMP or equivalent), an MBA and/or professional experience as a consultant, preferably supporting public sector or large organizations’ road safety and/ or transportation planning departments.

About us: 

At ICBC, it’s our job to make sure the car insurance system works for all British Columbians, today and in the future. If you want to make the most of your skills and expertise while growing your career, we want you. A career at ICBC is an opportunity to be part of a talented, diverse and inclusive team that is driven to serve its customers and community. You can expect a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits and a collaborative work environment. If you are reliable and dependable, contact us today to be part of our talented and diverse team as we work together to create an insurance system we can all be proud of.

Our values guide how we interact with customers, partners, and each other. They shape our decisions and create a culture where employees feel inspired and empowered to do their best work.

• Collaborative: We include different perspectives to reach our common goals.
• Supportive: We seek to understand to meet diverse and evolving needs.
• Straightforward: We simplify the complex to make things easier.
• Knowledgeable: We gain knowledge through experience and learning to make informed decisions.

Work arrangements defined: 

• Hybrid 8 – you will work a minimum of 8 days in a 4-week period at your primary office headquarters (typically 2 days per week). The remaining days will be remote within British Columbia. 

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend ICBC to their friends and family as an excellent place to work. We value and seek to maintain an environment of Collaborative, Supportive, Straightforward, and Knowledgeable team. Come join us at one of BC’s Top Employers!

ICBC provides comprehensive benefit coverage to all eligible employees including a defined benefit pension plan and 4 weeks’ vacation, plus 3 Wellness Days per year.

• Three options available for your health and dental coverage
• Employee and Family assistance program (wellness support)
• Basic group life insurance
• Voluntary group life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Sick leave plan – 100% of pay for a period of a maximum of 8 weeks
• Long term disability plan
• Pension plan – defined benefit pension plan that pays a benefit to you or your beneficiary upon termination, death, or retirement.
• 5 paid days of Indigenous Cultural Leave per year for Indigenous employees to attend ceremonial, cultural and spiritual events. 

Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered for this position.

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