Director - Program Portfolio - Toronto, Canada - Manulife

Manulife

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

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.

Working Arrangement
Hybrid

Individual Responsibilities**:

Work with senior leaders across Technology and Communities of Practice to lead/manage a portfolio of projects or programs with strategic impact on the global technology delivery practice
Lead the program management of process improvement BAU opportunities, as needed
Lead and facilitate the Technology Delivery Community of Practice
Support the facilitation of the Engineering Community of Practice
Intake and maintain prioritization opportunities across Engineering and Delivery Communities of Practice
Size and prioritize opportunities for business value and impact
Support development of arguments for the Engineering and Delivery Communities of Practice
Measure and report on success of the Communities and issue recommend opportunities for improvement/correction
Partner with Finance Strategy & Transformation on value realized of initiatives
Work with Human Resources and Manulife University on Communities of Practice's training & development needs for program and project management
Identify organisational change needs coming from process design and initiatives.
Work with change enablement and communications to foster successful change

Shared Responsibilities:

Recommendations on prioritization of opportunities
Broad understanding of business unit strategic direction, functions, products and services
Presents sophisticated ideas clearly, handle the complexities of integrating new technologies, and influence individuals across business boundaries to achieve objectives
Mastery of project management techniques, and systems development methodologies
Strong planning, influencing, negotiating, and conflict management abilities
Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to provide updates to all levels including Senior Management
Thinks strategically, assesses alternatives for short and long term impacts
Flexible and adaptable when taking care of change

This job description does not represent a comprehensive listing of job duties that are required of the employee performing this role.

We reserve the right to change duties or assign additional duties at any time with or without notice.

Job Requirements:

Proven track record to interact / influence outside functional boundaries to achieve common goals
PMP, CSM or related project management accreditation would be considered an asset
Bachelor's Degree
At least 10 years of experience in project or portfolio management
Financial competence as it relates to project/program/portfolio budgeting and forecasting
Strong Excel, Word, PowerPoint skills

Competencies:

Excellent facilitation and problem solving
Superior communication and presentation skills
Demonstrate understanding of how technology supports Manulife's strategy
Strong detail orientation
Highly effective influence and negotiation skills
Adaptability and change attitude

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

Salary & Benefits
The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location
Toronto, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between
$107,730.00 CAD - $200,070.00 CAD

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short