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Role Summary:
・Manage the end to end successful delivery of business critical infrastructure projects within the company

・Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders

・Manage and mitigate project risks and issues effectively and efficiently to ensure success

Job Description:

・Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver business critical projects (strong background in leading infrastructure projects)                  

・Drive decisions regarding project priorities/business requirements to manage project scope, budget, resources and delivery risks

・Ensure quality of deliverables and compliance with internal procedures and policies

・Build & maintain working relationships with IT and business stakeholders for project control

・Manage project schedule and create deliverables in a timely manner

Work across local and/or regional/global teams to efficiently achieve objectives   

Requirements：

・5 or more years in the insurance industry (Life or Financial Institutions preferred)

・8 or more years experience managing business critical projects end to end (experience across PMLC and SDLC)

・Past experience specifically managing large scale programs or projects (including data center migrations)

・Past experience specifically managing strategic projects (including product launches) in life insurance company preferred

・Thorough understanding of insurance products and insurance operations

・Possesses excellent leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills to lead cross-functional teams and coach/advise peers and staff

・Strong planning and organization skills with the ability to adapt to changes + ability to manage budgets and resource capacity

・Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)                

・Team player, self-motivated, confident and results-driven

・Proficient in project management tools, templates and project life cycle

・Bilingual in English (Fluent/Business-level) and Japanese (Native/Fluent)

・Project Management certification preferred (PMP, Prince2)

・Understanding of Agile & DevOps practices as applied to project management  

Salary:

Commutation allowance is paid based on our Work Rules.

Working Hours:

Standard Working Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm (Full-Flextime system available)

Benefits:

Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Employees' Pension, Unemployment Insurance, Worker's Accident Insurance), Benefit One, Training system , Childcare Leave/Family care Leave, Baby-sitter support program,

Holidays/Vacations:

Saturdays and Sundays

National Holidays

Year-end and new year holidays (December 30, December 31, January 2 and January 3)

Annual Paid Holiday

About Manulife Manulife is a leading Canada-based financial services group with principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States. Clients look to Manulife for strong, reliable, trustworthy and forward-thinking solutions for their most significant financial decisions. Our international network of employees, agents and distribution partners offers financial protection and wealth management products and services to millions of clients. We also provide asset management services to institutional customers. Funds under management by Manulife and its subsidiaries were approximately C$ 888 billion (US$663 billion) as at September 30, 2015. Our group of companies operates as Manulife in Canada and Asia and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as 'MFC' on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and under '945' on the SEHK. Manulife can be found on the Internet at manulife.com.