Associate Director, Portfolio Management

Hong Kong - Hong Kong

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Sun Life Hong Kongs IT and Digital team is seeking an AI Portfolio Project Manager to support the end-to-end delivery of the AI portfolio. Working closely with the AI Value Enablement Lead and AI Product Owner this role drives day-to-day project management activities across multiple AI initiativesplanning timelines coordinating dependencies tracking risks and issues and enabling consistent governance and reporting to ensure initiatives are delivered on time and with clear outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Planning & Scheduling

Develop and maintain integrated plans for the AI portfolio including workstreams milestones dependencies and critical path across initiatives
Establish and manage delivery cadences (status RAID steering) ensuring alignment across business IT data and vendor teams
Support the AI Product Owner with sprint/iteration planning logistics release planning and coordination of UAT and business readiness timelines
Track and manage cross-initiative dependencies (data platforms security architecture change) and drive timely resolution

Delivery Governance & Execution

Drive day-to-day project delivery activities ensuring scope schedule resources and deliverables are managed effectively
Facilitate governance forums and working sessions (project meetings risk reviews steering packs) and capture actions and decisions
Maintain clear documentation of project plans RAID logs decisions and key artifacts to support auditability and continuity
Coordinate with technology delivery teams to manage environment readiness release activities cutovers and post-release hypercare

Risk Issue Budget & Vendor Management

Own and maintain RAID logs across AI initiatives; proactively surface risks/issues propose mitigations and drive closure
Support budget tracking and forecasting for the AI portfolio (where applicable) including vendor spend licensing and resource costs
Coordinate with procurement and vendors/partners on onboarding delivery plans commercial milestones and performance tracking
Ensure project activities align to governance requirements (security risk compliance data privacy) and that approvals are planned into timelines

Communication Reporting & Stakeholder Alignment

Prepare regular status reports and executive-ready dashboards on progress milestones outcomes and RAID for the AI Value Enablement Lead
Ensure timely and clear communication across stakeholders including business owners IT data teams operations compliance and Regional/Corporate teams
Support change management and adoption activities by coordinating training plans communications and operational readiness checkpoints
Promote consistent ways of working across AI initiatives escalating blockers and decision needs early

Tools Standards & Continuous Improvement

Establish and maintain standard portfolio artifacts (roadmap tracker RAID dependency map action log benefits tracker) to improve transparency and delivery performance
Maintain project management tools (e.g. Jira/Azure DevOps SharePoint) and ensure data quality for reporting
Identify opportunities to streamline delivery processes improve governance and enhance predictability across the AI portfolio

Job Category:

IT - Technology Services

Posting End Date:

29/09/2026

Required Experience:

Director