We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Job Description

Join our Group Benefits Strategy & Portfolio Management team!

How will you contribute?

You will lead and coordinate business and technical projects of moderate and large scope through all phases of initiation, development, and implementation, in collaboration with Value Stream and Technical Business Partners.

Your responsibilities would include:

• Creating, managing, and owning Group Benefits’ initiative-level, end-to-end project plans including dependency management.
• Monitors spending and facilitates adjustments to project plans to ensure financial targets are met.
• Using your organizational and analytical skills to complete detailed roadmaps, milestone views, and reporting asks in multiple tools to serve a variety of collaborators.
• Identifying, articulating, and profiling risks and issues with the goal of sourcing workarounds, solutions, and decisions.
• Embracing change and bringing new insights 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business/Computer Science preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive project management experience inclusive of agile methodologies (PMP certified or Scrum Master certification).
• Understanding of software/digital channel products and related project management/delivery lifecycles.
• 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.
• Knowledge of project planning and tracking tools.
• Confident presentation and facilitation skills and strong interpersonal and leadership skills to cultivate relationships with key partners.
• Outstanding communications skills and ability to effectively communicate at all levels with both technical and non-technical team members and to translate complex technical issues into fundamental concepts.
• Adaptable, flexible, and comfortable working in a fast paced, dynamic business environment with a positive can-do demeanor.
• Agile/SAFe knowledge and JIRA/Confluence experience is an asset.

What can we offer?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment:

Values-first culture
We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.

Boundless opportunity
We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.

Continuous innovation
We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.

Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

Championing Corporate Citizenship
We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife /John Hancock , we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour , ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process . All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies . To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com .

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Salary range is expected to be between

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.