Hybrid Director, Enablement Management and Strategy

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About the role

  • Director of Enablement Management at Manulife leading Distribution Transformation Programs. Responsible for executive reporting and governance alongside strategic leadership for the distribution enablement team.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the Distribution Transformation Program master roadmap, ensuring alignment across all workstreams
  • Partner with workstream leads to define milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and timelines
  • Drive accountability for milestone delivery; proactively identify risks, root causes, and mitigation plans
  • Facilitate cross-functional decision-making and call out issues as needed to maintain momentum
  • Lead the definition, refinement, and ongoing management of program KPIs
  • Partner with Business Intelligence to build and publish monthly KPI dashboards
  • Deliver executive-level reporting highlighting progress, risks, wins, and strategic implications
  • Organize and lead program governance forums
  • Develop agendas, synthesize updates, track actions, and ensure follow-through
  • Prepare executive briefings and leadership communications
  • Track operating budget, vendor spend, and headcount forecasting
  • Partner with Finance on variance analysis and annual planning cycles
  • Develop leadership communications and strategy decks
  • Co-own team engagement strategy and lead operating rhythms

Requirements

  • 8–10 years of experience in financial services, with background in enablement, sales, marketing, strategy, or program management
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives without direct authority
  • Experience leading large‑scale programs, transformations, or enterprise initiatives
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint (executive storytelling) and Excel (data analysis)
  • Strong data literacy and comfort working with KPIs, dashboards, BI partners, and analytics outputs
  • Expertise in program governance, change management, and stakeholder communications
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively
  • Ambitious, self‑starter mentality; proactive and comfortable operating with minimal oversight
  • Highly structured and process‑driven, with the ability to navigate ambiguity
  • Excellent relationship‑building and influencing skills across all levels of the organization
  • High degree of ownership, accountability, and follow‑through.

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/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
  • financial education and counseling resources
  • generous paid time off program includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time

Job title

Director, Enablement Management and Strategy

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$128,550 - $222,820 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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