Manager Change Enablement

Manulife John Hancock; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Manulife John Hancock is seeking a Manager of Change Management in a hybrid Toronto setting. The role collaborates with change leaders, stakeholders, and transformation teams to identify impacts and convert them into practical actions that support implementation and adoption.

The ideal candidate combines analytical thinking with strong communication and relationship-building skills, bringing structure and follow-through to complex change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in change management, business transformation, continuous improvement, project delivery or business analysis.
• Experience supporting change initiatives, stakeholder engagement, communications, learning or readiness activities.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex information into actionable steps.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess change and business impacts across processes, roles and capabilities.
• Conduct structured change-impact assessments and gather stakeholder information.
• Identify stakeholders, risks, dependencies and required interventions.
• Translate changes into practical actions for employees and leaders.
• Develop stakeholder engagement activities and capture decisions and actions.
• Create communications and leadership materials to support adoption.
• Support readiness assessments, monitor adoption indicators and reinforce new ways of working.
• Partner with transformation teams to align change with broader programs.

Skills

Change management

Business transformation

Continuous improvement

Project delivery

Business analysis

Job description

The Manager of Change Management will play a hands-on role helping teams understand and prepare for changes to processes, technology, roles and ways of working. This role will work with change leaders, business stakeholders, transformation teams and subject-matter experts to identify impacts and turn them into clear, practical actions that support implementation and adoption.

This opportunity is well suited to someone who combines strong analytical thinking with communication and relationship skills and enjoys bringing structure and follow-through to complex change.

Position Responsibilities

• Assess change and business impacts
• Conduct structured change-impact assessments across processes, roles, responsibilities, capabilities and ways of working.
• Gather and synthesize current- and future-state information from stakeholders, process documentation and transformation teams.
• Identify impacted stakeholder groups, risks, dependencies and required interventions.
• Translating complex process and technology changes into clear implications and actions for employees and leaders.

Support stakeholder engagement and change execution

• Develop stakeholder and engagement activities appropriate to nature and level of change.
• Facilitate interviews, workshops and working sessions and ensure decisions and actions are captured and followed through.
• Develop clear communications, leadership materials and practically change resources.
• Support leaders and change champions in preparing teams for new processes, technology and ways of working.

Enable readiness and adoption

• Support readiness assessments and maintain visibility to key actions, risks, dependencies and accountable owners.
• Monitor indicators of awareness, preparedness, capability and adoption and highlight areas requiring intervention.
• Support implementation and post-launch activities, capturing feedback and reinforcing new ways of working.

Support transformation and continuous improvement

• Partner with process and transformation teams to connect change activities with current-state challenges and future-state outcomes.
• Maintain alignment between change activity and broader transformation plans, implementation milestones and priorities.
• Bring a continuous-improvement mindset to how change is designed, delivered and sustained.
• Capture lessons and reusable practices to strengthen subsequent initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in change management, business transformation, continuous improvement, project delivery or business analysis.
• Experience supporting impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, communications, learning or business-readiness activities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to organize complex information and translate it into clear actions.
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively where requirements and solutions continue to evolve.
• Experience supporting processes or technology transformation is preferred.
• Knowledge of change-management, Lean, continuous-improvement or process-redesign approaches is an asset.
• Exposure to automation, digital or AI-enabled transformation and/or financial services is an asset.

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.

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The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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 .

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