Chief Strategy Officer
Chief Strategy Officer
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Job Description
Manulife Financial Corporation (Manulife Financial) is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. With their global headquarters in Toronto Canada Manulife provides financial advice and insurance operating as Manulife across Canada Asia and Europe and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. Through Manulife Investment Management the global brand for Manulifes Global Wealth and Asset Management segment Manulife serves individuals institutions and retirement plan members worldwide.
Key Accountabilities
- Play a key thought leadership role. The Chief Strategy Officer will provide thought leadership and counsel to the senior leadership team on major strategic issues trends and options. This includes engaging and seeking input from the Executive Committee throughout the year on all matters of strategy planning and addition he/she will engage with the Board of Directors in strategy educational sessions and in opportunities to provide input in strategic thinking underway.
- The Chief Strategy Officer will be responsible for developing the companys annual strategic plan and facilitate all matters related to hosting the Board at the annual strategy Board session. They will develop and manage an ongoing global strategic planning framework that provides guidance to and engages the Executive Committee and key business units in ongoing strategic dialogues and activities. Working with the business and group functions this individual will develop help execute and track the progress of differentiated strategy and priority initiatives.
- Contribute insights and information to support strategy development and vetting. This individual will oversee the continual build out of the Enterprise Intelligence Unit that develops insight and implications for decision making based on ongoing analyses of the companys key competitors.
- Assist in corporate development and M&A. The mandate of this individual includes working closely with Corporate Development to develop the proactive M&A playbook within the context of the divisional coordination with this group and on an as needed basis the incumbent will perform business development/M&A due diligence valuation and business integration analysis for potential acquisitions.
- Provide Team Leadership. The successful candidate will manage and motivate a lean high-performing team that can realize its individual and group potential. He/she will actively build mentor and develop talent ensuring that they deliver against business demands and are considered partners to the business. This individual must motivate team members to produce to the optimum of their abilities and provide them with rewarding career paths.
- Building cross-functional relationships and providing leadership to issue resolution where persuasive skills negotiation skills and considerable tact are required to gain support. Conflicts will be resolved in an effective and productive manner. Maintaining positive relationships with key customers and partners and interfacing regularly with senior executives.
Qualifications/ Competencies and Experience
- Minimum of 15 years of strategy experience either with a top-tier consulting firm or through a combination of strategy consulting and corporate strategy experience. Previous business or operational roles is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience in strategy development and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strategies and tactics in collaboration with external (e.g. consultants) and internal partners (e.g. Business Units).
- Exposure and experience in such areas as strategy planning agile waterfall project management principles lean/six sigma and change management.
- Experience in the financial services industry
- A high degree of business acumen in the financial services sector.
- Experience in the insurance industry is ideal.
- Global leadership experience
- Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to operating globally with multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build a leading-edge team that drives new-age thinking.
- Exceptional communications judgement and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels with both technical and non-technical stakeholders including senior management and board.
- Experience leading a large-scale transformation change initiative including the development and execution of a large-scale transformation strategic plan.
- Strong Project Portfolio Management Skills including the ability to manage multiple complex projects at the same time and under tight deadlines operating in a cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrated success at senior cross-functional project delivery involving cross-functional teams stakeholders and business functions.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to deliver actionable recommendations based on analysis.
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 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 .
Working Arrangement
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
