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The role converts enterprise priorities into executable plans, aligns stakeholders, manages scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, issues, dependencies, resources, and change impacts, and ensures that projects deliver measurable business outcomes and intended benefits. The role also strengthens enterprise delivery discipline through transparent reporting, stage-gate compliance, continuous improvement, and active contribution to EPMO standards and capability building.\nKey Accountabilities:\n1. Strategic Alignment and Project Leadership\nLead assigned strategic, transformation, business, and technology projects from initiation through implementation, transition, and closure.\nTranslate approved business cases and enterprise priorities into clear project outcomes, roadmaps, delivery plans, milestones, and decision points.\nMaintain alignment between project objectives, enterprise strategy, investment intent, and expected business value.\nProvide direction to cross-functional project teams, clarify roles and expectations, and enable effective collaboration across local and regional Business Units.\n2. Scope, Requirements, and Delivery Management\nPartner with sponsors, clients, Business Analysts, technology teams, and subject-matter experts to define scope, strategy, requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation approach.\nManage delivery across initiation, planning, design, development, testing, deployment, transition, and closure using fit-for-purpose predictive, Agile, or hybrid methods.\nControl scope, schedule, budget, quality, and deliverables, and apply disciplined change control when requirements or priorities shift.\nCoordinate business and technical workstreams, including requirements analysis, solution readiness, user acceptance testing, and operational handover.\n3. EPMO Governance and Assurance\nComply with and champion enterprise project management standards, methodologies, templates, reporting requirements, and governance controls.\nPrepare projects for stage-gate reviews and provide complete, accurate evidence to support approval, continuation, reprioritization, or intervention decisions.\nMaintain core project artifacts, including charter, integrated plan, RAID log, dependency map, financial tracker, status report, decision log, change log, and closure report.\nSupport project health assessments, quality reviews, audits, and recovery actions; promptly address governance gaps and non-compliance.\n4. Risk, Issue, Dependency, and Decision Management\nIdentify, assess, document, mitigate, monitor, and control delivery, operational, financial, technology, regulatory, and change risks.\nManage issues and cross-project dependencies to resolution, with clear owners, target dates, impacts, and escalation paths.\nEscalate material risks, delivery constraints, and decisions to sponsors, governance forums, and EPMO leadership with evidence-based recommendations.\n5. Financial, Resource, and Capacity Management\nDevelop and manage project budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and cost tracking in partnership with Finance and functional leaders.\nIdentify critical skill and capacity needs, establish team accountabilities, and resolve resource conflicts through timely enterprise-level discussions.\nMonitor project financial performance and resource utilization, and recommend corrective actions to protect delivery and investment value.\n6. Stakeholder, Change, and Communications Management\nBuild trusted relationships with sponsors, executives, Business Units, clients, delivery teams, and enabling functions.\nCreate and execute stakeholder engagement and communication plans that provide transparent, timely, and decision-useful information.\nPartner with change and business leaders to assess organizational impacts, readiness, adoption risks, training needs, and transition requirements.\nFacilitate governance meetings, workshops, working sessions, and executive updates; drive decisions, ownership, and follow-through.\n7. Benefits Realization and Value Delivery\nPartner with sponsors and benefit owners to define measurable outcomes, baselines, targets, measurement methods, and realization timelines.\nTrack benefit delivery through implementation and transition, identify value leakage, and initiate corrective action where outcomes are at risk.\nConduct post-implementation and lessons-learned reviews and contribute evidence to EPMO benefits realization and portfolio reporting.\n8. Data, Digital, AI, and Reporting Enablement\nUse project and portfolio data to identify delivery trends, dependencies, risks, and opportunities and to strengthen decision-making.\nProduce accurate executive status reports, project health views, forecasts, and decision-support materials for the EPMO and governance bodies.\nPromote responsible use of digital, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled project management tools to improve planning, reporting, insight generation, and delivery productivity.\nEnsure human oversight, data quality, confidentiality, and appropriate controls when using AI-enabled tools or generated insights.\n9. Delivery Excellence and Capability Building\nContribute to EPMO methodologies, playbooks, tools, templates, lessons learned, communities of practice, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nCoach project team members and peers in practical project management, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and governance disciplines.\nShare insights from project delivery to improve enterprise project management maturity, scalability, and consistency.\nKey Deliverables\nApproved project charter and governance plan\nIntegrated project schedule, milestones, and dependency plan\nResource plan, budget, forecast, and financial status\nRAID, decision, change, and action logs\nStage-gate submissions and project health assessments\nExecutive status reports and decision-support materials\nStakeholder, communication, and change readiness plans\nBenefits realization plan and benefits tracking updates\nImplementation, transition, closure, and post-implementation review outputs\nLessons learned and reusable EPMO assets\nDecision Rights and Accountability\nRecommend delivery approach, sequencing, corrective actions, and escalation within the approved project mandate.\nChallenge assumptions, plans, estimates, and delivery practices that put outcomes, controls, or benefits at risk.\nEscalate material risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and governance non-compliance to the appropriate sponsor or EPMO forum.\nAccountable for accurate reporting, disciplined execution, timely decisions, transparent communication, and compliance with EPMO requirements.\nProject approval, reprioritization, suspension, termination, and enterprise funding decisions remain with the authorized governance bodies.\nSuccess Measures:\nDelivery against approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and outcome commitments\nCompliance with EPMO governance, stage gates, standards, and reporting requirements\nAccuracy and timeliness of project health, financial, risk, and dependency reporting\nEffectiveness of risk mitigation, issue resolution, and decision turnaround\nAchievement and sustained tracking of intended business benefits\nStakeholder confidence, engagement, readiness, and adoption\nEffective utilization of project resources and critical capabilities\nQuality of closure, lessons learned, and contribution to EPMO maturity\nRequired Qualifications and Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Finance, Investments, Legal Management, or another relevant discipline; equivalent professional experience may be considered.\nRelevant experience leading complex business and/or technology projects involving multiple stakeholders, functions, or Business Units.\nDemonstrated capability across project planning, execution, governance, financial management, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and implementation.\nWorking knowledge of business systems analysis, including information gathering, requirements definition, process improvement, and user acceptance testing.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office applications and project planning, visualization, reporting, and collaboration tools.\nAbility to work across different schedules when required by regional or project delivery needs.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nProfessional project or program management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or an equivalent credential.\nExperience with Agile or hybrid delivery methods, portfolio governance, stage-gate reviews, benefits realization, and project assurance.\nExperience in financial services, wealth management, insurance, or another regulated environment.\nExperience using portfolio analytics, automation, digital collaboration platforms, or AI-enabled project management capabilities.\nExperience working with executive sponsors, governance boards, and geographically distributed teams.\nLeadership and Behavioral Capabilities:\nEnterprise mindset and strategic alignment\nOwnership, accountability, and disciplined follow-through\nInfluence without authority and constructive challenge\nClear executive communication and facilitation\nCommercial, financial, and value orientation\nStructured problem-solving and sound judgment\nAdaptability, learning agility, and continuous improvement\nCollaboration, inclusion, and stakeholder partnership\nAbility to enable others and strengthen team capability\nWhen you join our team:\nWe’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.\nWe’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.\nAs part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.\nAbout Manulife and John Hancock\nManulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.\nManulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nAt 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.\nIt 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. 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