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About the Role
Support Manulife’s investment product development strategy by developing business cases, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, and moving product ideas from concept through launch. This role requires strong asset management knowledge, analytical judgment, stakeholder management skills, and an interest in emerging areas like tokenization and digital assets.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and execution of the product roadmap in alignment with business objectives, client needs, and market opportunities.
- Partner with product leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate growth opportunities across retail, institutional, retirement, and wealth channels.
- Contribute to business cases and recommendations for new products, enhancements, partnerships, platform initiatives, and broader global product priorities.
- Manage product initiatives from concept through launch and post-launch review, with guidance from product leadership as needed.
- Coordinate multiple strategic projects, supporting strong governance, timely execution, and successful commercialization.
- Prepare governance materials, executive presentations, approval documents, and business cases for review by senior stakeholders.
- Monitor industry trends, competitive developments, regulatory changes, and client needs.
- Identify opportunities across public and private markets, retirement solutions, model portfolios, multi-asset products, and emerging areas such as tokenization and digital assets.
- Translate market intelligence into actionable product concepts and recommendations.
- Serve as a day-to-day liaison across Investments, Distribution, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and external partners.
- Build strong relationships to support effective decision-making and execution.
- Support the preparation and presentation of recommendations to senior management and governance committees.
- Support distribution and marketing teams with product positioning and commercialization.
Requirements
- 7-10 years of experience in investment product development, product management, investment strategy, governance, or related asset management functions.
- 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional initiatives, coordinating stakeholders, and supporting senior-level decision-making.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
- Experience supporting the development and launch of investment products across multiple structures and distribution channels, including mutual funds, ETFs, CITs, SMAs, model portfolios, retirement products, and alternatives.
- Strong knowledge of product governance, regulatory considerations, commercialization, and lifecycle management.
- Strong analytical, project management, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bilingualism (English and French) is a strong asset. If the candidate is in Québec, proficiency in both languages will be required to support clients from various provinces outside of Québec.
Skills
- Asset management knowledge
- Analytical judgment
- Stakeholder management
- Tokenization
- Digital assets
- Product strategy
- Product roadmap development
- Business case development
- Project management
- Market intelligence
- Executive presentation
- Morningstar Direct
- FactSet
- Bloomberg
- Power BI
- Excel
Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 7-10 years
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Business Administration, or related field
- MBA, CFA, CAIA, or similar designation preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $92,475.00 USD - $160,290.00 USD
Benefits
- Opportunity to learn and grow
- Flexible environment
- Well-being and inclusion support
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Mental health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Adoption/surrogacy benefits
- Wellness benefits
- Employee/family assistance plans
- Retirement savings plans (pension/401(k))
- Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
- Financial education and counseling resources
- Up to 11 paid holidays
- 3 personal days
- 150 hours of vacation
- 40 hours of sick time
- Statutory leaves of absence
About the Company
- Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better.
- Company: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)
Equal Opportunity
- Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer
- At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity.
- We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals.
- 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, colour, 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.
- It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment.
- A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process.
- All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies.
- To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact hr@manulife.com.