Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager

Pacific Life; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Generous PTO & Holidays

Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

401k match & company contributions

Job summary

Pacific Life in Newport Beach, CA is seeking a Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager to join the Portfolio & Delivery team. You will turn complex initiatives into clear delivery plans and partner across business, technology, operations, and leadership.

You will fill a role on a 5-person team in the Institutional division, driving planning, governance, and outcomes with a focus on collaboration, data-driven decisions, and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical field, business, computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of project management, program management, delivery management, business analysis, or related experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives using traditional, agile, hybrid, or right-sized delivery approaches.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of strategic initiatives.
• Define, track, and measure expected business outcomes and success metrics.
• Create and maintain core delivery artifacts, including project plans, schedules, RAID logs, decision logs, and charters.
• Drive clarity around scope, ownership, dependencies, and budget considerations.
• Coordinate work across business, technology, operations, product, finance, risk, legal, and other stakeholders.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytical field

Job description

Job Description

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead - our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It's a big ask, but it's one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate - pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it's a career with purpose. It's a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future - including your own.

We're actively seeking a talented Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager to join our Portfolio & Delivery team in Newport Beach, CA or Omaha, NE.

As a Sr. Initiative Delivery Manager, you'll move Pacific Life, and your career, forward by turning complex, high-priority initiatives into clear, actionable delivery plans that drive business outcomes. You will partner across business, technology, operations, and leadership teams to create alignment, manage trade-offs, and keep strategic work moving forward.

You will fill an existing role that sits on a team of 5 people in the Institutional division. Your colleagues will include fellow project and portfolio management professionals.

How you'll help move us forward

• Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of strategic, operational, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Define, track, and measure expected business outcomes, benefits, and success metrics throughout the initiative lifecycle.
• Create and maintain core delivery artifacts, including project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, decision logs, resource plans, charters, status updates, and dependency maps.
• Drive clarity around scope, success criteria, ownership, roles, decision rights, dependencies, capacity, budget considerations, and escalation paths.
• Coordinate work across business, technology, operations, product, finance, risk, legal, compliance, actuarial, vendor, and other stakeholder groups.
• Drive alignment and decision-making through credibility, influence, stakeholder partnership, and data-driven recommendations.
• Monitor initiative budgets, forecasts, and financial assumptions to identify risks, trade-off opportunities, and decision points that may impact scope, timing, value, or capacity.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and delivery health concerns.
• Frame escalations as clear decision requests with context, impact, options, recommendation, owner, and timing.
• Support governance and stage gate readiness, including sponsor engagement, SteerCo discipline, SLT/DRMC preparation, operational readiness, and value realization activities.
• Provide concise, transparent, decision-oriented communications tailored to project teams, sponsors, senior leaders, and enterprise partners.
• Promote accountability, urgency, collaboration, and respectful challenge while maintaining trust and partnership across teams.
• Contribute to delivery practice maturity through use of playbooks, templates, retrospectives, process improvements, and repeatable ways of working.

The experience you bring

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical field, business, computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of project management, program management, delivery management, business analysis, or related experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives using traditional, agile, hybrid, or right-sized delivery approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex work independently, solve problems, elevate appropriately, and operate with minimal guidance.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear business language and tailor messages for different audiences.
• Project management certification or equivalent delivery discipline preferred.
• Financial services, insurance, product development, operations, technology, or regulated-industry experience preferred.

What makes you stand out

• Brings structure and momentum to ambiguous or undefined work.
• Creates executive-ready communications that move from status to decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.
• Constructively challenges scope, timelines, assumptions, and ownership while preserving strong relationships.
• Balances speed, value, risk, quality, capacity, and operational readiness.
• Influences without authority and aligns stakeholders across a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity, resilience, sound judgment, partnership, and a bias for action.

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Base Pay Range

The base pay range noted represents the company's good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications and geographic location. Also, most employees are eligible for additional incentive pay.

$118,800.00 - $145,200.00

Your Benefits Start Day 1

• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

You Can Be Who You Are

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EEO Statement

Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.