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CFO - Western Canada
The company was founded in Saskatchewan in 1949 as a not-for-profit company following the merger of a co-operative medical insurance plan with a physician-sponsored health insurance plan. Following the introduction of publicly funded healthcare ('Medicare') in Saskatchewan in the early 1950's, the company reinvented itself as a provider of supplemental health insurance, bridging the gap between publically funded healthcare services and the needs of its customers. The company's service offering has expanded significantly to include dental, travel, vision care and other products, for groups as well as individual policyholders. It is headquartered in Regina and employs about 100 individuals. It is licensed in BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland (in addition to Saskatchewan), with plans to expand into Quebec and New Brunswick. The company has launched a search for a new Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, who will report directly to the CEO, and be accountable for a 15 person department. As a key member of the Executive Management team, the Vice President & Chief Financial Officer is responsible for the administrative, financial, and risk management operations of the company. The VP & CFO will have primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all finance-related activities of the company. This includes direct responsibility for accounting, finance, underwriting, business intelligence, strategic planning, and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results. We require broad and deep finance skills, ideally encompassing audit, financial reporting/controls and/or treasury, gained in a senior corporate role and/or accounting firm. Financial service industry experience is preferred, but is not a pre-requisite. The CFO must be strategic, analytical, have a good business mind and be a natural leader. CA/CMA required. This is an opportunity to join a smaller and nimble firm with significant provincial profile but with national aspirations. This position is expected to be a strong successor candidate to the CEO. Please quote file #41151.

Controller
Located in downtown Toronto, this not-for-profit association employs approximately 110 individuals, with 70 at the head office and the balance in offices across the country. Based at the national head office, the Controller reports directly to the Senior Director of Finance, who in turn is accountable to the President & CEO. The Controller is responsible for a seven-person team (senior accountants, intermediate accountants, A/P and A/R co-ordinators). The team is loyal and engaged and deep into the CMA or CGA programs (with a couple close to receiving designations). This Controller will work closely with the Senior Director, Finance and will be responsible for complex accounting activities related to planning, budgeting, maintenance of complete and accurate general ledgers, as well as Executive Committee and management reports and financial statements. He/she is responsible for maintaining the accounting functions and accounting systems and for providing systems/accounting support to offices located across Canada. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years' practical business experience; he/she will have had accounting, financial analysis/reporting/controls and ideally, audit, experience. Preferably, this experience would have been garnered in a not-for-profit business environment (industry or professional association, accreditation-granting organization, charity, university/college, the healthcare space, etc.), or a smaller to medium-sized service-based business. CMA/CGA/MBA required. Ideally, this individual will have proven experience leading, developing and inspiring professional staff (or at least a keen interest in doing so). This is the chance to contribute in a role of considerable scope in a small and more intimate work environment. Please quote file #41152.

Medical Director, Europe
Our client is directing a broad clinical trial program with the objective of developing their product as a human cancer therapeutic. With 12 ongoing Phase 1-11 clinical trials and 1 pivotal Phase III trail now underway, the company has a strong sense of identity, focus and optimism around succeeding. Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, this position is responsible for providing medical guidance, overseeing patient safety and pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs and clinical development oversight of all ongoing and future European clinical studies (currently with 70 sites throughout 10 European countries). The ideal candidate must be a MD with a proven clinical development, drug safety and regulatory affairs background from within a pharmaceutical and/or biotech company where there has been direct involvement with oncology product clinical trials throughout Europe. Based in the UK or Central/West Europe, the chosen candidate will have the ability and inclination to work remotely from his/her home based office. Interested candidates may respond in confidence to info@cblsearch.com. Please quote file #41138.

VICE PRESIDENT, GUEST EXPERIENCE AND OPERATIONS
Our client is a leader in Canada's entertainment industry. The company has grown into an admired and respected multi-purpose entertainment organization delivering first-class service within its world-class facilities. Employing over 2,300 full and part-time employees, the company owns and operates several venues. Recently as a result of some changes in the business, the organization launched a search for a Vice President, Guest Experience and Operations. In this pivotal and newly created role you will oversee approximately 700 people with three direct reports. As a member of the executive management team, you will contribute to the development, review and attainment of the organization's vision, values and strategic goals as well as the building of a cohesive leadership team. The overall mandate for the incumbent will be to lead the development and direction of the customer facing operational departments ensuring alignment with the strategic direction of the organization. He/she will support the organizations vision and values, with a renewed emphasis on the 'guest' experience at all facilities. You are a candidate if you possess a minimum of 10 years of leadership experience relating to the operations and/or the guest experience industry. Advanced knowledge surrounding guest services principles, market research methods and issues/challenges as they relate to guests visiting the facility is important. The Vice President, Guest Experience and Operations will have a tremendous opportunity to bring the vision to life. As the 'keeper'of the 'guest experience', the incumbent will continue to build on a culture that lets others succeed and reach their full potential. All of the areas that the incumbent will lead are customer facing and therefore 'touch' a lot of people in a profound and impactful way. Interested candidates are asked to submit their resume directly in response to this post to: Caroline Loberto, Managing Director, Carmichael Birrell Loberto Executive Search. caroline@cblsearch.com. Please quote file #41145.

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER (CMO)
Reporting directly to the President & CEO, this CMO will have responsibility for the overall strategic direction of the marketing group and be an influential member of the Executive Leadership Team. This broad role will have accountability for consumer analytics, segmentation strategy, brand evolution, product pricing/positioning, media/public relations, internal communications, advertising and product launch. The organization is poised to aggressively grow the business and marketing is expected to be a key driver of new business. The ideal candidate will have been a senior level marketing prime for a financial services company, or for a significant line-of-business within same. Must have wide-ranging marketing exposure with experience in marketing communications, segmentation, branding and strategic planning, in particular. Leadership is a pre-requisite. The selected candidate will have an interest working with a less bureaucratic organization while getting closer to the customer. There is a real potential to profoundly impact this company. Location: Toronto. Please reference job #41147 responding to info@cblsearch.com.

Business Unit Manager - Retail Products
Our client is part of a $16 Billion U.S. based, world-wide leader designing, producing and marketing an array of highly engineered fasteners, components, equipment and specialty industrial, commercial and consumer products. The Canadian operation is segregated into 3 decentralized business units - commercial, residential, retail and employs 175 people. We seek a proven consumer goods sales/marketing management pedigree to head up the retail products business unit. Generating approximately $33M in annual revenue, the retail business unit employs 25 people and markets its' product line to big box retail accounts, wholesale accounts and mass merchants nationally. The ideal candidate will have strong general management leadership qualities and have a record of success managing teams selling to large multi-store home centre or other mass merchants at a corporate level. He/She will ideally have an understanding of the tool/hardware products category from a leading branded organization. This is a great opportunity to assume full P&L responsibility for a decentralized business unit of a major global organization. Interested candidates are asked to submit their resume in confidence to info@cblsearch.com. Please quote file #41131.

VICE PRESIDENT, SALES (Enterprise Software)
With customers who are the world's largest insurers, our client uses its deep knowledge of insurance to create software solutions that enable their customers to develop new or modify products more quickly and efficiently than competitors, automate underwriting, enable straight-through processing for online sales, and deploy an agile, modern technology platform to better support growth and expense reduction. Employing 160 employees, our client is a privately owned corporation established in 2001 with offices in Toronto and New York. We seek a proven sales executive to assume responsibility for the direction and management of the sales team and to act as a key member of the company's executive team. Reporting to the CEO, the VP, Sales will focus the sales organization both on new account development, as well as optimizing current customer relationships to capitalize on immediate sales opportunities within existing accounts. With previous experience leading a high calibre group of sales professionals across North America (and focused in the U.S. marketplace), the ideal candidate will have come from an enterprise software company where solutions selling, larger sales cycles and large multi-million dollar deals were sought and secured. Exposure to the insurance or financial services sectors is preferred. He/She will have a street smart and aggressive approach to growing the business and have come from a professional sales organization with a proven sales execution culture. The ideal candidate will also have the operational savvy and leadership ability to move into an expanded role, as the Company is targeting to grow both organically and through acquisition. Ideally based in Toronto, the chosen candidate may also be situated anywhere in North America. Interested candidates are asked to submit their resume in confidence to info@cblsearch.com. Please quote file #41133.

SVP, CLINCIAL DEVELOPMENT & CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
Our client is directing a broad clinical trial program with the objective of developing their product as a human cancer therapeutic. With 12 ongoing Phase I-II clinical trials and 1 pivotal Phase III trial now underway, the company has a strong sense of identity, focus and optimism around succeeding. We seek a seasoned industry executive from a pharmaceutical and/or biotech company where there has been demonstrated experience leading clinical development of oncology drug candidates from early stage through the full range of clinical trials, including successful product approvals. A board certified MD and oncologist, the ideal candidate will also have demonstrated expertise in managing complex collaborations and teams in support of executing clinical trials, have a high level of awareness of the requirements of the FDA, EMEA and other regulatory bodies and be able to thrive in a lean corporate structure. The company is flexible to candidates who reside anywhere in North America and wish to remain in their respective home bases. Interested candidates are asked to contact Colin Carmichael directly at colin@cblsearch.com.