Hybrid Program Director, Affinity Health – Dental Transformation

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About the role

  • Program Director leading Affinity Health & Dental Transformation at Manulife. Driving program success and overseeing multiple workstreams while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end success of the Affinity Health & Dental transformation program, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and on budget.
  • Partner with workstream leads and program leadership to maintain progress and resolve challenges proactively.
  • Integrate program roadmaps, manage cross-functional dependencies, and act as the single source of truth for status and updates.
  • Identify risks within and across workstreams; develop and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure all workstream dependencies are documented, tracked, and communicated promptly when changes occur.
  • Support change management and business readiness efforts.
  • Lead program governance forums including Steering Committees, Transformation Checkpoints, and other required governance deliverables.
  • Provide clear, concise updates to senior leadership and collaborators on program status, risks, and decisions.
  • Collaborate with Tech PMO/RTE and Architecture teams to ensure solutions are scalable, sustainable, and meet business requirements.
  • Validate that technical designs align with program objectives and regulatory standards.
  • Monitor program budgets, forecasts, and resource allocations to ensure optimal utilization and cost control.
  • Report program performance—including financials, progress, quality, and risks—to steering committees and executive sponsors.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree minimum
  • Minimum 7 years strategy and/or program / project management experience in large-scale transformations, preferably in health, dental, or insurance domains
  • Proven track record of managing complex, multi-workstream programs with significant business and technology components
  • Experience with agile methodologies ( SAFe , Scrum, Kanban) and tools (Jira, Smartsheet)
  • Strong leadership and collaborator management skills, with ability to influence at all levels
  • Strong facilitation skills with the ability to be both co-operative and collaborative while understanding when assertive and directive behavior is required
  • Experience with analyzing information/data and developing frameworks/ methodology to drive decision-making; strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to grasp business and technology concepts of increasing complexity
  • Good understanding of technology space, particularly FinTech
  • Demonstrated initiative; ability to collaborate across teams and divisions
  • Comfortable working in an unstructured environment where concepts and ideas will be designed and tested in an accelerated timeframe
  • Excellent communication skills, ability to present complex ideas clearly and experience with presentation preparation
  • Passion for innovation and a high degree of comfort with ambiguity.

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 including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
  • full range of statutory leaves of absence

Job title

Program Director, Affinity Health – Dental Transformation

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$125,100 - CA$175,100 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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