Hybrid Project Manager

at Manulife

• Job title: Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$103,270 - CA$153,270 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Project Manager at Manulife driving strategic initiatives from development to execution. Collaborating with senior leadership to improve operational efficiency and deliver successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• 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