Strategic Development Manager, Design

Commercial Sales & Service

Facilitates enterprise level growth and risk aligned performance by leading the design, integration, and execution of a unified, forward looking view of CCB portfolio health. Drives scenario based insights, risk identification, and risk appetite calibration by integrating analytics across risk, capital, returns, and portfolio migration.

Leads the development and operationalization of CCB's Portfolio Health & Outlook framework, ensuring consistent, scalable, and action oriented insights that support earlier decisions and clearer strategic direction.

Oversees integration of analytics across credit risk, capital, return, migration, and collateral, ensuring methodologies are aligned, transparent, and decision useful.

Drives scenario specific implications across portfolios, sectors, and borrowers, translating insights into clear grow / defend / pull back recommendations aligned with business strategy and risk appetite.

Plays a central role in the CCB risk identification process, ensuring alignment with enterprise expectations and actionable outcomes supported by strong analytical evidence.

Supports calibration of risk appetite metrics, ongoing monitoring, breach management, and escalation governance, enabling proactive portfolio risk management.

Partners with CDAO, Finance, Risk, and Business stakeholders to ensure aligned data, methodology, insights, and strategic actions, acting as a primary advocate for analytical consistency and portfolio optimization objectives.

Leads development and monthly production of the CCB Portfolio Insights & Actions package, enabling senior leadership visibility and strategic decision making discussion into emerging risks, opportunities, and strategic decision levers.

Coaches, directs, and quality checks work delivered by junior team members, ensuring alignment with team mandate, analytical standards, and enterprise governance expectations.

Analyzes market trends, client industry developments, and key macroeconomic drivers to assess portfolio implications and support forward looking scenario analysis.

Ensures adherence to regulatory requirements, internal controls, risk governance expectations, and compliance policies across all analytics, reporting, and portfolio strategy processes.

Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.

Operates at a group wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.

Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous analytical and risk strategy challenges.

Implements changes in response to shifting economic, regulatory, and portfolio trends.

Takes measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of the role, in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite, making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy and regulatory expectations.

10+ years of experience in portfolio or capital management, credit risk, capital & returns analytics, or related quantitative/strategic functions in financial services.

• Bachelor's degree required; Graduate degree (MBA, MSc, MA) considered an asset.
• Portfolio and capital management & scenario analysis

Credit risk and capital modelling and analytics

SQL, SAS, and Python (or similar programming languages) to extract, analyze, and visualize data

Data integration, interpretation, analytics and insight generation

Project Management

Structuring portfolio level insights & forward looking analysis

Risk appetite metrics, monitoring, and breach governance

Risk identification processes

Communication, influence, and executive level storytelling

Analytical rigor and quality assurance

Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. BMO Financial Group's total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. We strive to help you make an impact from day one - for yourself and our customers. We'll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we'll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for service to submit resumes.