Hybrid Associate Director – Asia Transformation

at Manulife

• Job title: Associate Director – Asia Transformation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hong Kong

About the role

• Associate Director/Senior Manager driving strategic execution and leadership in Asia transformation for Manulife. Overseeing project management and governance across multiple markets.

Responsibilities

• Own intake and lead implementation of Manulife’s Asia strategy, ensuring alignment with overall strategic priorities.
• Work with stakeholders to translate ambiguous opportunities into clear problem statements, hypotheses, and measurable outcomes (OKRs).
• Build and maintain a comprehensive execution roadmap with milestones, deliverables, interdependencies, and accountabilities across markets and functions for the assigned strategic programs/initiatives.
• Define and develop execution roadmaps to provide clarity, structure, and alignment around timelines, milestones, deliverables, and accountabilities.
• Lead day‑to‑day decisioning to maintain pace, remove blockers, and deliver outcomes; escalate with options and implications.
• Facilitate the development of key metrics and indicators to track the success of initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
• Oversee and manage the execution of the plan, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope, through effective governance to maintain momentum and accountability.
• Facilitate the program and initiatives Steering Committee to ensure strategic alignment and oversight from executive stakeholders.
• Establish governance frameworks to monitor progress and ensure accountability across initiatives.
• Shape and assist in business case building.
• Maintaining the program financials and associate investments, building business cases and updating financial tracking.
• Identify, manage, and escalate key issues and risks in a timely manner, ensuring proactive problem-solving and mitigation strategies.
• Elevate the profile of strategic programs and initiatives within the organization, ensuring they receive the necessary focus and resources.
• Motivate and encourage workstream leads, fostering a collaborative and high performance culture.
• Recognize and celebrate successes to maintain morale and highlight positive outcomes.

Requirements

• Project management expertise: Proven track record in project management, to manage complex, multi-market projects and drive them to successful completion.
• Management consulting experiences preferred.
• Strategic thinking: Strong understanding of the insurance business, products and operations; familiarity with Manulife systems and processes is a plus.
• Problem Solving Capability: Ability to translate objectives into action items which drive initiatives, including data-driven problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication and collaborative skills, and ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, supports, advocates, communicates and implements changes.
• Business Acumen: Solid business and financial acumen to evaluate and understand financially feasible actions for strategy implementation.
• Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Self-motivated, independent and with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Presentation Skills: Excellent presentation, proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel; ability to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Education and qualification - University degree or higher, with preference to degrees in healthcare, medicine, business administration, finance or a related field.
• Fluency in English is required; proficiency in one or more Asian languages is an advantage.

Benefits

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.