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We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Portfolio Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining the strategic portfolio plan, maintaining ongoing internal commentary surrounding our progress against strategic objectives and providing regular reporting on progress, financial results, and KPIs to relevant leadership teams. Partners with the AVP Strategic Transformation & Delivery, Finance, and IT delivery teams to optimize planning, data gathering, and reporting tools and processes through automation and standardization to drive efficiency and ensure consistency.

The Portfolio Manager is an integral contributor to the ST&D team with the goal to define, champion, and drive goals in alignment to the organization's strategic objectives and client/customer needs, providing the right data and insights at the right time to help stakeholders solve challenging problems.

Individual Accountabilities:

• Establish a strategic portfolio plan. Including but not limited to:

• Coordination of the planning and initiation of portfolios at various levels of completion

• Monitoring progress, financials, and schedule of a portfolio

• Communicating with portfolio and project stakeholders

• Creating rules and procedures for making portfolio decisions

• Maintain internal commentary and regular reporting on strategic objectives, financial results, and KPIs for leadership teams and maintain ongoing portfolio analytics and commentary for internal stakeholders.

• Partner with Delivery and Finance teams to compile updates into weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.

• Contribute to comprehensive progress reports with an objective view on achieving objectives.

• Collaborate with strategic teams to enhance planning, data gathering, and reporting through automation and standardization.

• Analyze portfolio metadata and maintain a dashboard of strategic initiatives to support KPI objectives.

• Develop ad-hoc reporting and analysis as requested in collaboration with Finance teams ensures that project portfolio aligns with financial planning for the business.

Required Qualifications:

• Project/Program Management Experience - Project planning, project documentation, tracking progress, stakeholder management.

• Working knowledge and experience with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid project management concepts, practices, and deliverables

• Has a fundamental understanding of the business and understands industry trends

• Strong ability to demonstrate a global view of portfolio reporting engaging a wide audience in data collection, sharing a strategic view, synthesizing large volumes of data to bring together a succinct view of the portfolio.

• Supports the processes associated with the capture, catalogue, and general oversight of the segment portfolio

• An advanced degree in a quantitative discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Entrepreneurial spirt and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment,

• Actively embraces change efforts and initiatives to manage portfolio disruptions.

• Ensure that initiatives comply with DoA and ODF framework and identify exceptions for escalation.

• 5 years’ experience or a combination of education and experiences

• Identifies escalation items early and produces options for resolution

• Partners effectively with cross functional and virtual teams by demonstrating collaboration, adaptability, and influencing.

• Fully bilingual (French/English): The successful candidate will be required to communicate in English and French in order to support clients from various jurisdictions outside of Quebec.

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife 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 .

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 recruitment@manulife.com .

Primary Location

CAN, Quebec - Full Time Remote

Working Arrangement

Remote

Salary range is expected to be between

$81,450.00 CAD - $146,610.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.