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Job Description

Manulife/ John Hancock is a leading international financial services provider driven by the mission of making decisions easier and lives better. We are hard at work redefining our organization into a digital, customer-centric market leader – evolving our customer interactions into innovative, immersive, and highly functional digital experiences delivering high value. We’re also changing the way we work: foundational to our success is encouraging a culture that is inclusive, hard-working, and makes our company a compelling place for dedicated people to join and build their careers. 

The Marketing Project Manager will report to the AVP, Marketing Portfolio Oversight and will be responsible for leading small-and-large scale marketing projects. 

Key accountabilities:

• Initiating, planning, and executing small to large scale marketing projects

• Work with collaborators to define and manage the scope, strategy, requirements and implementation of projects

• Setting project goals and objectives

• Coordinating with the creative, digital, and sales teams to develop and implement marketing strategies

• Managing project budgets and timelines

• Tracking project performance using appropriate metrics, tools, and techniques

• Ensuring all project stakeholders are kept informed about project progress, deadlines, and potential issues

• Organizing and managing resources, including the allocation of staff, equipment, and budgets, for specific projects

• Reporting on project outcomes and making recommendations for future projects

• Develop cost-benefit analyses for project initiatives.

• Identify, analyze, mitigate, document, and control project risks.

• Provide effective and regular communication within the project team, stakeholders, sponsors and management

• Manage team expectations and relationships.

• Identify resource needs for the project and establish roles, expectations, and goals with team members.

• Conduct After-Action-Reviews.

Job Requirements:

• 5-7 years of progressive business analysis and/or project management experience supporting large size and critical projects

• Superior understanding of business, operational, and sales processes

• Expertise in evaluating feasibility or practicality of ideas and options, assess risks and trade-offs and, make informed and timely decisions 

• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, with proven ability to engage stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization

• Confirmed digital acumen and experience in prioritizing and handling multiple initiatives simultaneously

• Ability to facilitate and enable clear, succinct communication between cross-functional partners

• Strong relationship-building skills to build effective working relationships with business leaders

• Ability to identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement across the program

• Ability to coordinate the objectives and work efforts of stakeholders in matrixed environment

• Strong understanding and experience with business analysis and/or project management methodologies

• Thinks analytically to break down moderately complex issues into smaller, manageable parts

• With support, can discern the most critical pieces of larger analysis

• Clearly communicate results of work of moderate complexity to business partners and clearly articulate solutions to senior team members.

• Curious and asks the right kinds of questions of peers and customers to gain knowledge

• Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail

• Flexibility to lead multiple and challenging priorities

Competencies:

• Collaboration:  Fosters productive working relationships across business functions to achieve collective business goals

• Communication:  Expresses ideas and shares information clearly and concisely, modifies approach as necessary

• Influence and Persuasion:  Moves others towards a point of view using compelling rationale

• Growth Mindset & Enable Change: Demonstrates curiosity, generates ideas, and proposes solutions

• Executing with Excellence:  Excels in delivering sustainable results

• Adaptability:  Effectively adapts to change to achieve results in an evolving environment

• Solution Focused: Owns assigned tasks from inception to resolution, makes timely recommendations and decisions where appropriate

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About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife 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 [email protected].

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Salary range is expected to be between

$86,325.00 USD - $155,385.00 USD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location. 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. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife/John Hancock 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/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.

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Company: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.)