Program Governance & Strategic Delivery Lead

This role provides the opportunity to lead programlevel management governance and delivery oversight for complex crossfunctional initiatives across the Manulife Vitality program. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring programs are wellgoverned risks and dependencies are actively managed and work is delivered in a predictable highquality way that advances Manulifes mission to improve health and financial outcomes for customers. By strengthening program management discipline and delivery transparency this role helps translate strategy into measurable business impact. The role offers broad exposure across business technology and vendor partners along with meaningful influence over how work is planned governed and delivered as the program continues to mature.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide program-level governance and delivery oversight for complex cross-functional initiatives ensuring alignment to business objectives timelines and quality expectations across the Behavioural Insurance portfolio.

• Establish and operate delivery governance structures including delivery cadence readiness checkpoints dependency management and decision forums to improve predictability and transparency.

• Oversee delivery performance of external vendors ensuring commitments are met and cross-team dependencies are actively managed and resolved.

• Proactively identify track and manage program-level risks assumptions issues and dependencies supporting mitigation planning and clear communication to stakeholders and leadership.

• Develop and maintain structured program reporting that provides visibility into delivery status risks dependencies and outcomes to support informed decision-making.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in program delivery project management product ownership or a related role in a complex crossfunctional environment.

• Demonstrated experience working with delivery methodologies such as Agile waterfall or hybrid models.

• Strong experience coordinating work across business technology and external partners.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in insurance health wellness or technologyenabled programs.

• Experience supporting or operating delivery governance risk management or portfolio oversight processes.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills including experience preparing leadershiplevel updates.

• Familiarity with common delivery and tracking tools (e.g. Jira Confluence ServiceNow or similar).

• Experience contributing to delivery optimization or continuous improvement initiatives.

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.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

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Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location.

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.

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