Manulife

Director – Transformation Delivery

Manulife

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$125,100 - CA$175,100 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead enterprise-wide policy and planning activities that enable effective strategy execution
  • Partner with Global Finance and Strategy teams to establish annual budget envelopes that support the proposed Book of Work while ensuring disciplined financial management
  • Lead and facilitate cross-functional interlock sessions to drive alignment on initiative prioritization, resourcing requirements, and funding allocations
  • Develop materials for the ELT and Board summarizing enterprise BoW investment, key outcomes, and overall portfolio performance
  • Own the Global Initiative Management Policy and serve as a subject-matter expert
  • Collaborate with strategy partners to identify governance improvement opportunities
  • Manage the Global Transformation Delivery Portal
  • Lead a small development team responsible for ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the Global Initiatives App
  • Work with strategy partners to identify enhancement opportunities, prioritize the product backlog, and support requirements gathering, testing, and release planning
  • Execute the Global Initiatives App roadmap to continuously improve functionality, usability, and data integrity
  • Respond to inquiries from Strategy stakeholders and provide insights on initiative governance and delivery best practices
  • Support development of the junior members of the Transformation Delivery Team
  • Contribute to monthly ODF ELT reporting and Transformation Committee reviews as required

Requirements

  • Generally an advanced degree in a quantitative field
  • 10 years experience or a combination of education and experience
  • Creative & entrepreneurial thinker with the ability to challenge the status quo to drive significant change
  • Able to review trend information to identify early indicators of risk or issues
  • Strong understanding of the customer lifecycle for multiple lines of business
  • Understands and leverages industry trends
  • Strong ability to adapt to change within emerging technologies and demonstrate a clear understanding of impacts of change
  • Understands technology concepts and is able to convey those simply to audience
  • Actively collaborates to create ways to lead change
  • Prior experience in management consulting
  • Able to engage with senior executives
  • Demonstrates agility and ability to quickly shift priorities
  • Strong internal network at all levels of the organization
Benefits
  • Health, dental, mental health, vision insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • Adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
  • Employee/family assistance plans
  • Retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
  • Financial education and counseling resources
  • Generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
  • Full range of statutory leaves of absence
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
budget managementinitiative prioritizationrequirements gatheringtestingrelease planningportfolio performancedata integritygovernance improvementtransformation deliveryproduct backlog management
Soft Skills
creative thinkingentrepreneurial mindsetchange managementcollaborationagilitycommunicationleadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingnetworking
Certifications
advanced degree in quantitative field