Health Data Product Manager

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Role Summary

Sun Life Health is a leading health and benefits provider in Canada, offering Canadians comprehensive group benefits and a portfolio of digital health products. We are a passionate group who like to take on big challenges in a supportive environment, grounded in our purpose of helping Canadians achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We have an opportunity to use data to empower Canadians to take control of their health by personalizing health journeys, predicting health outcomes, preventing disease progression, and generating insights and research in partnership with the Canadian health ecosystem.

As a core member of the Sun Life Health team, reporting to AVP, Health Data Science and Analytics, you will engage with Sun Life Health stakeholders to mature and scale our data and analytics platforms to support our health data science and analytics strategy. You are a technical driven product manager with extensive health data background responsible for driving the evolution of our health data platform, and the delivery of data products. You are passionate about driving change and can deliver it in highly matrixed organizations.

What will you do?

• Health Data Platform (HDP) Roadmap: Collaborate with Health Solutions, Data & Analytics, Data Architecture, Legal, Risk and Compliance, and Technology teams to drive the target state design and roadmap for the health data platform, including:

  • Articulating requirements and clearly communicating them across stakeholders.

  • Synthesizing findings into platform architecture, data model, data product and process options for stakeholders and driving to achieve consensus on the HDP roadmap.

  • Maintaining the platform roadmaps, specifications, and priorities and supporting the communication of our existing and future data platform capabilities.

• HDP Functional Improvements: Collaborate with the relevant teams across Sun Life to help implement the HDP roadmap to enable new health data capabilities through:

  • Representing Sun Life Health Data Science and Analytics in the relevant technology product and implementation teams

  • Communicating updates, timelines, progress and areas of risk across stakeholders.

  • Facilitating the implementation of data governance, quality and management processes that support the desired HDP functionalities.

• Health Data Products: Manage data products throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition strategy to data product provisioning ensuring that stakeholder needs are met, and internal and external partners are managed throughout the process. This includes:

  • Running intake and prioritization for implementing new data integrations and data products to support evolving or net new use cases.

  • Working effectively with stakeholders to define data requirements.

  • Collaborating with the relevant business groups, data, technology, operations, and compliance teams to enable new data integrations and the deployment of new data products.

  • Managing the data integration and the data product release processes, ensuring that new features and enhancements are delivered on time and meet quality standards.

  • Collaborating with data analytics and technology partners to leverage common capabilities, tools and assets. 

• Be an active contributing member to the analytics community to help foster and grow the data and analytics capabilities at Sun Life

What will you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in technology or computer science related field.

• 3+ years of product management experience focused on data products and platforms.

• A proven track record of building data pipeline products that solve business problems – preferably in healthcare.

• Strong familiarity with healthcare data standards (e.g. FHIR) and formats.

• Familiarity in deploying data products in a mesh environment is an asset.

• Understanding of technical infrastructure to support analytics and data science solutions. 

• Demonstrated ability in bringing structure to complex problems and breaking them down into tangible elements.

• Proven track record in driving clarity and momentum in collaborative projects using clear communication, goal setting and structured thinking that keep pushing your partners towards decisions and action.

• Effective and concise oral and written storytelling and insights communication skills with demonstrated ability to tailor communications to technical and business audiences.

Unique Requirements

• The candidate selected for this role may be required to have special clearance from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 

• To see if you are eligible for this clearance, please review the information on Federal Government site (https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/personnel/pdcf-rsrp-eng.html)

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What’s in it for you?

• Remote/ Hybrid Work environment

• Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data.

• 20 days vacation per year and an innovative sabbatical program.

• A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture.

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family.

• Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security.

• Fitness and wellness programs that help you balance work and life and enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted.  It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors.  In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance.  Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results. 

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to [email protected].

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

82,000/82 000 – 135,000/135 000

Job Category:

Advanced Analytics

Posting End Date:

31/03/2024