Senior ManagerAssociate Director, Project Management
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:
Role Purpose
This role is a senior delivery leader responsible for the successful execution of complex crossfunctional programmes and projects within Sun Life. The role requires strong handson project and programme management capability experience in navigating organisational and stakeholder complexity and proven experience operating within regulated financial services environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead endtoend delivery of complex multiworkstream programmes including regulatory business transformation and technology-backed initiatives.
- Own delivery outcomes across scope schedule cost dependencies risks and benefits realisation.
- Develop and maintain integrated plans manage critical paths proactively address delivery constraints and anticipate surface and resolve delivery risks and issues early.
- Navigate matrixed structures resolve competing priorities influence across functions without direct authority and align stakeholders with differing objectives.
- Drive decisionmaking through clear communication datadriven insights and pragmatic tradeoff management.
- Deliver programmes in compliance with Sun Life governance PMO standards financial controls and risk management requirements.
- Ensure transparency accuracy and discipline in progress tracking forecasting and reporting.
- Collaborate with PMO team to provide practical delivery feedback and contribute to continuous improvement in enterprise execution.
Experience & Qualifications
- Typically 1015 years of project or programme management experience with a strong track record delivering large complex initiatives in financial services insurance or other regulated environments.
- Strong programme and project execution skills including planning dependency management risk management and benefits tracking.
- Ability to operate effectively and flexibly with ambiguity and complexity.
- Clear concise and structured communicator.
- High level of stakeholder maturity and organisational awareness.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen related to programme delivery.
- Professional certifications such as PMP PRINCE2 MSP are desirable.
Job Category:
Project Management - ProcessPosting End Date:
14/05/2026Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Sun Life is a financial services company providing financial planning, life insurance, health insurance, investments and more.