Project Manager, Transformation

Manulife Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 93,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

Disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Manulife Financial is seeking a highly motivated Project Manager, Transformation to drive strategic initiatives across Canada Operations. You will lead cross-functional transformation programs from ideation through implementation, ensuring alignment with business strategy and operational objectives.

You will partner with senior leaders and project teams to deliver measurable outcomes while strengthening governance, change adoption, and organizational effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of project or program management experience delivering large-scale transformation.
• Experience delivering cross-functional programs within regulated industries such as insurance/financial services.
• Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
• Strong governance and executive communication skills with steering committee materials.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Transformation Delivery & Execution: lead end-to-end delivery of strategic transformation initiatives, on-time, in-scope, within budget, with roadmaps.
• Governance, Planning & Reporting: establish governance, manage risks/issues, prepare exec materials, status updates.
• Stakeholder, Risk & Financial Management: build cross-functional relationships, manage budgets/forecasts, drive benefits realization.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Governance & reporting

Budget & forecast

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Operations/Technology

Job description

We're looking for a highly motivated Project Manager, Transformation to help drive strategic initiatives across Canada Operations. In this role, you will lead complex, cross-functional transformation programs from ideation through implementation and benefits realization, ensuring alignment with business strategy and operational objectives. You will partner with senior leaders, business stakeholders, and project teams to deliver measurable outcomes while strengthening governance, change adoption, and organizational effectiveness. This is an excellent opportunity to influence large-scale business and digital transformation initiatives while building strong executive partnerships.

Position Responsibilities

• Transformation Delivery & Execution: Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic transformation initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and quality expectations. Develop and manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and delivery roadmaps.

• Governance, Planning & Reporting: Establish and maintain strong project governance, including risk, issue, dependency, and decision management. Prepare executive presentations, steering committee materials, status reports, and leadership updates that translate complex information into actionable insights.

• Stakeholder, Risk & Financial Management: Build strong relationships across business and technology teams to drive stakeholder alignment, facilitate decision-making, and support change adoption. Manage project budgets, forecasts, and benefit realization activities while proactively identifying and mitigating delivery risks.

Required Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of project or program management experience leading large-scale business transformation initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-functional programs within insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.

• Proven success managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.

• Strong governance, reporting, and executive communication skills, including development of steering committee and leadership materials.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum, Prosci, Lean Six Sigma, or other project/change management certification.

• Experience leading enterprise-wide digital transformation, operational excellence, or organizational change initiatives.

• Strong financial acumen, including budget management, forecasting, and business case development.

• Excellent executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across competing priorities.

• Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives with significant organizational impact.

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

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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Referenced Salary Location

Toronto, Ontario

Working Arrangement

ハイブリッド勤務

Salary range is expected to be between

$92,900.00 CAD - $142,900.00 CAD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. 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. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [e-mail] for the salary range for your location.

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 [e-mail] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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