Senior Manager, Customer Onboarding & Early Tenure

<p style="text-align:left"><span>Adresse:</span></p>33 Dundas Street West<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left">Groupe de famille d'emplois:</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Solutions clientèle<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b>This is a hybrid role in Toronto</b></p><p><b>Senior Manager, Customer Onboarding & Early Tenure</b></p><p><b>Location:</b> Toronto, ON<br /><b>Team:</b> Customer Lifecycle Management<br /><b>Reports to:</b> Director, Customer Lifecycle Management & Strategy</p><p><b>Role Summary</b></p><p>The <b>Senior Manager, Customer Onboarding & Early Tenure </b>is accountable for setting the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution approach for customer journeys that help new and early-tenure customers build stronger, deeper, and more primary relationships with BMO.</p><p>This role will own and evolve the <b>Onboarding & Early Tenure</b> journey, focused on driving activation, funding, product cross-sell, primacy, PPC growth, and early customer engagement during a customer’s first months with the bank. The role will also lead the development and delivery of the New to Canada journey, including pre-arrival and onboarding experiences designed to help newcomer customers choose BMO earlier, establish primary banking relationships faster, and build long-term relationship value.</p><p>Operating as both a strategic journey owner and cross-functional execution lead, this role partners closely with Product, Marketing, Digital, Analytics, Customer Insights, Campaign Strategy, Frontline Enablement, Delivery, Operations, and Measurement teams to translate customer moments into measurable business outcomes.</p><p>The Senior Manager will play a critical role in scaling proven journey capabilities, building new growth opportunities, strengthening journey governance, and creating connected, customer-led experiences that support BMO’s enterprise priorities around client growth, full relationships, digital first, data-driven personalization, simplification, and customer lifetime value.</p><div></div><p><b>Key Accountabilities</b></p><p><b>Strategic Leadership & Journey Vision</b></p><ul><li>Define and own the multi-year strategy and roadmap for <b>Customer Onboarding, Early Tenure, and New to Canada</b> journeys, ensuring alignment to CLM priorities, Ambition 2030 outcomes, and Canadian P&BB growth objectives.</li><li>Establish a clear journey vision for how BMO supports customers during onboarding, early relationship formation, and newcomer banking moments.</li><li>Identify, size, and prioritize opportunities to improve customer activation, funding, product depth, primacy, PPC growth, retention, newcomer acquisition, and long-term relationship value.</li><li>Translate customer needs, business priorities, and market opportunities into a sequenced set of journey interventions, experiences, campaigns, offers, and channel strategies.</li><li>Ensure journeys are customer-led, time-bound, anchored in meaningful moments, and designed to move customers from their current state to an ideal future state.</li></ul><p><b>Onboarding & Early Tenure Journey Ownership</b></p><ul><li>Lead the ongoing strategy, optimization, and performance management of the Onboarding & Early Tenure journey.</li><li>Drive initiatives that improve early customer activation, funding behaviour, product cross-sell, customer engagement, and primacy.</li><li>Optimize journey economics, channel performance, customer treatments, and measurement frameworks to continually improve business impact.</li><li>Partner with Product, Marketing, Analytics, Digital, Frontline, and Delivery teams to enhance personalization, sequencing, communications, offers, and customer experience across early-tenure moments.</li><li>Ensure the journey remains scalable, measurable, and aligned to enterprise priorities around client growth, full relationships, and customer lifetime value.</li></ul><p><b>New to Canada Journey Leadership</b></p><ul><li>Lead the development and launch of the <b>New to Canada</b> journey, including pre-arrival and onboarding journey capabilities.</li><li>Build personalized newcomer banking experiences that help customers engage with BMO earlier and establish primary relationships faster.</li><li>Partner across Product, Marketing, Digital, Analytics, Frontline, and newcomer banking teams to define the target customer segments, moments that matter, triggers, needs, barriers, and opportunities.</li><li>Shape the journey strategy, experience design, channel orchestration, delivery roadmap, and measurement approach for New to Canada.</li><li>Drive outcomes related to newcomer acquisition, early engagement, PPC, primacy, retention, and long-term customer value.</li></ul><p><b>Journey Design, Delivery & Governance</b></p><ul><li>Lead end-to-end journey delivery from discovery and research through strategy and design, requirements and feasibility, build and delivery, and maintain and optimize.</li><li>Define customer segments, triggers, scope, opportunity areas, journey hypotheses, experience design, channel strategy, requirements, dependencies, and delivery priorities.</li><li>Prepare and lead key journey artifacts, including opportunity summaries, journey strategy and experience design packs, measurement approaches, initial journey backlogs, master journey documents, and next-wave optimization plans.</li><li>Drive alignment through structured governance, including strategy alignment, scope sign-off, journey decision forums, working groups, and ongoing performance reviews.</li><li>Manage competing priorities, delivery risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and trade-offs across multiple teams and initiatives.</li></ul><p><b>Customer Engagement, Channel Strategy & Orchestration</b></p><ul><li>Design connected customer experiences across digital, frontline, marketing, outbound, servicing, product, offer, and analytics capabilities.</li><li>Partner with channel and enablement teams to ensure customer treatments are timely, relevant, sequenced, and reinforced across touchpoints.</li><li>Define channel roles, orchestration approach, messaging strategy, customer moments, suppression considerations, and experience guardrails.</li><li>Ensure journeys are not managed as isolated campaigns, but as coordinated lifecycle experiences that progress customer behaviour and deepen relationships.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><b>Performance Management & Analytics</b></p><ul><li>Establish and manage journey KPIs, dashboards, reporting rhythms, and business performance reviews.</li><li>Use customer insights, product analytics, CIR insights, campaign results, and measurement dashboards to identify performance drivers, gaps, and optimization opportunities.</li><li>Track outcomes such as activation, funding, product cross-sell, PPC, primacy, retention, engagement, newcomer acquisition, and customer lifetime value.</li><li>Lead test-and-learn planning across messaging, targeting, timing, triggers, sequencing, channels, offers, and customer segments.</li><li>Translate insights into clear recommendations, roadmap changes, and next-wave priorities.</li></ul><p><b>Stakeholder & Enterprise Leadership</b></p><ul><li>Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leaders across CLM, Product, Marketing, Digital, Analytics, Frontline, Operations, Delivery, and partner teams.</li><li>Influence cross-functional partners to align on customer priorities, business outcomes, sequencing, resourcing, delivery scope, and decision-making.</li><li>Represent the Onboarding, Early Tenure, and New to Canada journeys in CLM governance forums, leadership updates, partner working groups, and executive discussions.</li><li>Build strong enterprise relationships and drive alignment across teams with different mandates, priorities, and delivery models.</li></ul><p><b>People Leadership & Culture</b></p><ul><li>Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team with capabilities in journey strategy, customer experience, analytics, stakeholder management, delivery, and optimization.</li><li>Set clear goals, establish accountability, support employee development, and recognize strong performance.</li><li>Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and outcome-oriented culture aligned to BMO’s purpose, values, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.</li><li>Build team capability in journey design, structured problem solving, executive communication, partner engagement, and performance management.</li></ul><p><b>Risk, Governance & Controls</b></p><ul><li>Ensure journey strategies, customer treatments, data usage, campaigns, communications, and delivery approaches are managed within approved risk appetite and applicable policies.</li><li>Partner with risk, compliance, legal, privacy, data, and operational teams as required to identify and manage risks related to customer outcomes and execution.</li><li>Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks, dependencies, and constraints that could impact delivery, customer experience, or business outcomes.</li></ul><div></div><p><b>Qualifications & Experience</b></p><p><b>Experience</b></p><ul><li>Typically <b>7+ years</b> of progressive experience in retail banking, customer lifecycle management, customer strategy, product management, digital strategy, marketing, analytics, management consulting, or customer experience.</li><li>Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional programs or journeys with enterprise-wide impact.</li><li>Proven ability to develop multi-year strategies and translate them into clear roadmaps, execution plans, business outcomes, and measurable KPIs.</li><li>Strong understanding of customer onboarding, early-tenure engagement, relationship deepening, primacy, acquisition, retention, and customer lifecycle value.</li><li>Experience working with data, analytics, measurement, segmentation, triggers, journey design, campaign strategy, and customer performance dashboards.</li><li>Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate ambiguity across multiple teams, priorities, and delivery constraints.</li><li>Experience leading teams, developing talent, and building strong partner relationships across business, analytics, marketing, digital, operations, and frontline groups.</li></ul><p><b>Education</b></p><ul><li>Post-secondary degree in Business, Commerce, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.</li><li>MBA or advanced degree is considered an asset.</li></ul><div></div><p><b>Core Capabilities</b></p><ul><li>Strategic thinking and business acumen - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Customer lifecycle management and journey orchestration - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Customer onboarding, early-tenure engagement, and relationship deepening - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Newcomer banking, acquisition, and primary relationship growth - <b>Advanced</b></li><li>Data-driven decision making and analytical problem solving - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Journey design, customer experience, and channel orchestration - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Program delivery, governance, and change management - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Measurement, KPI management, and performance optimization - <b>Advanced</b></li><li>Stakeholder influence and executive communication - <b>Expert</b></li><li>People leadership and talent development - <b>Expert</b></li><li>Ability to manage ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment - <b>Expert</b></li></ul><p></p><br><p><B>Salaire:</B></p><p>$94 600,00 - $176 000,00</p><p><B>Type de rémunération :</B></p><p>Salaire</p><p>Ce qui précède représente la fourchette et le type de rémunération de BMO Groupe financier.</p><p>Les salaires varieront en fonction de facteurs comme l’emplacement, les compétences, l’expérience, les études et les qualifications pour le poste et pourront inclure une structure de commissions. Les salaires pour les postes à temps partiel seront calculés au prorata du nombre d’heures travaillées régulièrement. Pour les rôles à commission, le salaire susmentionné représente la cible de BMO Groupe financier pour la première année au poste.</p><p>La rémunération totale offerte par BMO variera selon le type de rémunération associé au poste et peut comprendre des primes de rendement, des primes discrétionnaires ainsi que d’autres avantages et récompenses. BMO offre également une assurance santé, le remboursement des frais de scolarité, une assurance accident et une assurance vie, ainsi que des régimes d’épargne-retraite. Pour en savoir plus sur nos avantages sociaux, consultez le site: <a href="" target=_blank> propos de nous</B></p><p>À BMO, nous sommes animés par une raison d’être commune : Avoir le cran de faire une différence dans la vie, comme en affaires. Cette raison d’être nous invite à entraîner des changements positifs et durables pour nos clients, nos collectivités et nos gens. En travaillant ensemble, en innovant et en repoussant les limites, nous transformons des vies et des entreprises et favorisons la croissance économique partout dans le monde.</p><p>En tant que membre de l'équipe de BMO, vous êtes valorisé, respecté et entendu, et vous avez plus de moyens pour progresser et obtenir des résultats. Nous nous efforçons de vous aider à obtenir des résultats dès le premier jour, pour vous-même et nos clients. Nous vous offrirons les outils et les ressources dont vous avez besoin pour franchir de nouvelles étapes, car vous aidez nos clients à franchir les leurs. Au moyen de formation et de coaching approfondis ainsi que de soutien de la direction et d'occasions de réseautage, nous vous aiderons à acquérir une expérience enrichissante et à élargir votre groupe de compétences.</p><p>Pour en savoir plus, visitez-nous à l'adresse <a href="" target=_blank> s'engage à offrir un milieu de travail inclusif, équitable et accessible. Nous apprenons de nos différences et tirons notre force des gens et de leurs différents points de vue. Des mesures d’adaptation sont disponibles sur demande pour les candidats qui participent à tous les aspects du processus de sélection. Pour demander des mesures d’adaptation, veuillez communiquer avec votre recruteur.</p><p>Remarque aux recruteurs : BMO n’accepte pas les curriculum vitæ non sollicités provenant de toute source autre que le candidat directement. Tout curriculum vitæ non sollicité envoyé à BMO, directement ou indirectement, sera considéré comme la propriété de BMO. BMO ne paiera aucuns frais pour les placements découlant de la réception d’un curriculum vitæ non sollicité. Une agence de recrutement doit d’abord détenir une entente de service écrite valide et dûment signée avant d’envoyer des curriculum vitæ.</p>

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