Senior Project Manager

1 month ago

California, United States Manulife Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Project Manager to lead our cross-functional project teams in delivering business-critical projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of managing large-scale projects, with expertise in Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver business-critical projects
  • Drive decisions regarding project priorities and business requirements
  • Manage project scope, budget, resources, and delivery risks
  • Ensure quality of deliverables and compliance with internal procedures and policies
  • Build and maintain working relationships with IT and business stakeholders
  • Manage a team of Project Managers and Senior Project Managers
  • Manage dependencies within program streams and between projects
  • Manage project deadlines, breakdown tasks, and set targets
  • Provide feedback, advice, guidance, and encouragement to team members
  • Host regular project meetings and report status updates to management
  • Proactively recognize warning signs, raise risks and issues, and develop risk mitigation plans
  • Communicate with the team frequently to update them on project progress and status
  • Take ownership of the project budget, scope, timeline, and effectively manage baseline change control

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience managing business-critical projects end-to-end
  • Past experience leading large programs with multiple projects
  • 5+ years in the insurance industry (Life preferred)
  • Past experience managing large-scale cross-functional teams and offshore delivery vendors
  • Past experience working in both Waterfall and Agile delivery environments in the insurance industry
  • Experience delivering projects under a regulatory environment in the financial services industry

Skills and Competencies

  • Excellent leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills
  • Strong planning and organization skills
  • Strong team building and motivational skills
  • Experienced in hiring and building effective project teams
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent time management skills, goal setting, and follow-up
  • Thorough understanding of insurance products and operations
  • Team player, self-motivated, confident, and results-driven
  • Proficient in project management tools, templates, and project life cycle
  • Bilingual in English and Japanese

About Manulife

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.

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

We embrace our diversity and strive to attract, develop, and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve. 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, color, 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.

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