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About the Role
Lead end-to-end delivery of new insurance product initiatives, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to ensure successful implementation, regulatory compliance, operational readiness, and achievement of target launch timelines. The role is responsible for driving project governance, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring alignment across all functions involved in product development and deployment.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of new insurance product initiatives.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to ensure successful implementation, regulatory compliance, operational readiness, and achievement of target launch timelines.
- Drive project governance.
- Manage risks and dependencies.
- Ensure alignment across all functions involved in product development and deployment.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
- Lead business requirements gathering, solution design review, SIT, UAT, and production deployment activities.
- Coordinate multiple internal teams and external vendors while ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivery timelines.
- Prepare executive-level status updates, steering committee materials, and decision papers.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Project Manager leading insurance product development or product implementation initiatives within the life insurance or financial services industry.
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end insurance product lifecycle, including product design, regulatory approval, system implementation, testing, and product launch.
- Experience managing large-scale cross-functional projects involving Business, Product, Operations, Compliance, Actuarial, and Technology teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
- Strong knowledge of insurance core systems and processes, including policy administration, underwriting, policy servicing, and claims-related integrations.
- Experience leading business requirements gathering, solution design review, SIT, UAT, and production deployment activities.
- Ability to coordinate multiple internal teams and external teams and external vendors while ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivery timelines.
- Strong governance and reporting experience, including preparation of executive-level status updates, steering committee materials, and decision papers.
- Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements applicable to insurance product development and implementation.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Experience delivering new life insurance product launches.
- Knowledge of insurance product configuration, policy administration platforms, and digital distribution capabilities.
- Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery environments.
- Experience working in global and multicultural environments.
- Business-level English communication skills, both written and verbal.
Skills
- Leadership and Team Management
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Risk and Issue Management
- Stakeholder Engagement and Influence
- Decision-Making and Problem Solving
- Change Management
- Executive Communication
- Cross-functional Collaboration
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Project Manager
Education Level
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification
About the Company
- Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better.
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.