Manulife

Project Manager

Manulife

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$103,270 - CA$153,270 per year

About the role

  • Lead strategic business initiatives from development to execution with senior leadership.
  • Assist in decision-making, planning, and implementing strategic initiatives.
  • Creating, managing, and owning initiative-level, end-to-end project plans including dependency management.
  • Using your organizational and analytical skills to complete detailed roadmaps, milestone views, and reporting asks in multiple tools to serve a variety of stakeholders.
  • Identifying, articulating, and profiling risks and issues with the goal of sourcing workarounds, solutions, and decisions.
  • Embracing change and bringing new ideas forward to help improve execution excellence, delivery predictability, and optimization of workflows.
  • Communicating effectively and maintaining appropriate governance and transparency of initiatives in alignment with Enterprise governance and agile ways of working.
  • Adapting quickly to changing priorities and timelines while keeping business needs in focus.
  • Actively participating in an agile environment involving team members with varying degrees of expertise and specialization.
  • Motivating and inspiring teams to achieve shared goals.
  • Improve processes and optimize procedures for better efficiency and productivity of planning and executing strategic initiatives.
  • Act as a liaison between stakeholders, providing strategy updates, problem-solving, and project management.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure operational efficiency.
  • Support project management, risk management, and other activities impacting Manulife Bank strategy commitment to continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred; supplemented by 5+ years of progressive project management experience demonstrating strategic and operational success
  • Prior experience leading projects through a period of transformation or change is an asset.
  • Ability to think strategically, assess alternatives for short and long-term impacts and act decisively.
  • Robust knowledge MS applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.) is a must
  • Adaptable, flexible, and comfortable working in a fast paced, dynamic business environment with a positive can-do attitude
  • Exceptional communications skills and ability to effectively communicate at all levels
  • Strong critical thinking, analytical skills, and creative problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to build and manage relationships at executive and senior levels.
  • Experience working across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
  • health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
  • employee/family assistance plans
  • various 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 in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and full range of statutory leaves of absence
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
communication skillsleadershipadaptabilityteam motivationrelationship buildingcritical thinkingflexibilityorganizational skillscreativitystrategic thinking