Manager of Distribution Strategy

The Canada Retail Intermediary Distribution team a part of the Global Wealth & Asset Management Segment is hiring a Manager to support the evolving needs of our Distribution Strategy and Transformation team. This team is responsible for collaborating with Global leadership North American leadership US counterparts and our functional partners to create the conditions for success in our Canadian Retail business.

The Manager will be accountable for working with business and functional partners to build our strategic plans through comprehensive analyses modelling likely outcomes and potential value to ensure sound data-driven decision making is possible. The successful candidate will monitor these pivotal initiatives communicate our successes and takeaways and evolve our path forward along with internal partners while ensuring senior leaders have the required insight and context to run the business.

Position Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain financial models reports and forecasts for various business scenarios and translate large data sets into impactful insights recommendations and reports (20%)

• Support the planning processes critical metric monitoring and help with the development of insights for annual quarterly and monthly management reporting deliverables (20%)

• Perform analyses of internal cost structures revenue levers and business processes in order to discover opportunities for bottom-line earnings improvement (15%)

• Partner with team members to build and drive Canada Retail strategic priorities collaborate with the team on cross-functional work identify issues advance as required and recommend solutions to keep priorities on track (15%)

• Perform research and analysis of industry trends market positioning and competitive intelligence activity related to the retail investments environment in Canada and connect the insights generated to our strategy (15%)

• Assist in preparing leadership presentations and communications that keep senior leaders and partners aware of progress against key priorities (15%)

Required Qualifications:

• More than 2-years of proven experience in the financial services or management consulting industry

• A degree or equivalent experience in finance business administration math statistics economics and other quantitative fields is beneficial

• Current accreditation or working towards a CFA designation or other related programs is an asset but not required

• Working experience in advanced Excel spreadsheets

• Comfort and experience with Power BI

Preferred Qualifications:

• Confidence with manipulating large datasets to turn raw data into practical insights

• An understanding of transformation and strategy frameworks and problem-solving tools

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills

• Project management skills with an ability to develop and improve process efficiency

• Able to work under pressure with high standards of quality against tight deadlines

• A good teammate

• Proficient in English (required)

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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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 for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.