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Technical Program Manager – AI Sales Technology & Sales Enablement - FR JR26090557 Toronto

Manulife

Toronto, Ontario

Technical Program Manager – AI Sales Technology & Sales Enablement - FR JR26090557 Toronto

Manulife

Toronto, Ontario

Job description

John Hancock is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) with two primary functions of equal importance. First, to lead a strategic portfolio of AI, Salesforce, and second Sales Enablement initiatives supporting Distribution and Sales Technology transformation. The TPM will serve as the central coordination point across Business, Product, Technology, Architecture, Data, Security, Finance, Operations, and external partners to deliver AI-powered sales capabilities, Salesforce modernization, mobile experiences, and producer productivity solutions.


Position Responsibilities:

Initiative management:

Overseeing the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for initiatives that support John Hancock Insurance priorities, from initiation and delivery through implementation, stabilization, and post-launch support across policyholder, producer, and operations journeys. Initiative


Delivery:

Responsible and accountable for all aspects of technology delivery, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, closure, and post-initiative evaluation, to meet scope, budget, schedule, regulatory, operational-readiness, and customer commitments.


Technical expertise:

Using their background in understanding software engineering and technology to implement technology strategies and ensure effective software delivery


Salesforce & Sales Enablement responsibilities includes:

Lead delivery of Salesforce modernization initiatives. Support Distribution Modernization, Territory Management enhancements, and RVP Assignment modernization. Drive adoption of AI-enabled sales capabilities within Salesforce. Coordinate mobile, web, and desktop sales experiences.


Cross-functional leadership:

Providing cross-functional leadership and building alignment for efforts such as product architecture and synchronizing the ask with the IT organization service areas to deliver services. Technical risk management: Identifying and mitigating technical risks that could impact project success


Value Creation:

Works closely with Business Initiative lead to build schedule, milestones, goals, and scope by aligning and incorporating technology aspects from components, solutions, feasibility and delivery. People & Culture: Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, while actively driving alignment and productivity for aligned Team


Required Qualifications:

  • 3-5 years of technical program management expertise in related field
  • 3+ years delivering technology solutions in the life insurance industry (required), with direct leadership over and exposure to innovative AI-based solutions and concepts and downstream capabilities (preferred).
  • Familiarity with life insurance-related regulatory and business concepts and the operational cadence of product changes and their impacts to new business operations and underwriting
  • Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities to manage through creative tension
  • Ability to manage execution plans to a budget and to provide regular updated financial forecasts for labor and non-labor expenses
  • Familiarity with AI concepts, principles and governance from use case and outcome identification to adoption and monitoring
  • Applied generative AI delivery expertise, including the ability to lead solutions using large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, model evaluation, guardrails, and production monitoring within a secure, governed enterprise environment.
  • Influencing and execution the work without direct management of resources
  • Strong verbal and communication skills with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision and the ability to translate the outcomes into possibilities, options and execution
  • Comfortable with leading communications including presentations to senior leadership, sponsors and stakeholders for business cases and roadmaps
  • Learns constantly, from both success and failure, and remains open to change/continuous improvement.
  • Responds well to ambiguity and works efficiently to clarify situations and outcomes
  • Experience partnering with Marketing and Distribution business areas to translate product and regulatory requirements into technology deliverables with clear acceptance criteria and traceability.
  • Ability to design and manage integrations across a technology ecosystem (product/rate data sources, rules engines, document generation, e-signature, CRM/portal, case management), including API contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility.
  • Ability to drive non-functional requirements for platform specifications (user experience, high availability, resiliency, observability, and data privacy/security for producer/customer data).
  • Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
  • Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
  • Recognized as an expert within IT specialty and/or business and broader organization with broad-based expertise across area and related functions
  • Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
  • Ability to manage execution plans to a budget and to provide regular updated financial forecasts for labor and non-labor expenses
  • Ability to partner with business and technology leaders to identify and prioritize AI opportunities across application intake, underwriting and new business, policy issue and delivery, in-force servicing, producer support, customer service, claims, and operations while defining success measures, controls, and adoption plans.
  • Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of IT to the business (e.g., illustration turnaround time, quote-to-apply conversion, straight-through processing).
  • Ability to identify and manage risks associated with initiative delivery and team dynamics, including product launch timelines, regulatory deadlines, and producer-impacting changes.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Project management skills with proficiency in project/initiative management software tools and methodologies including Agile and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Understanding of Agile metrics, scrum, and similar agile methodology to track progress, measure team performance, and identify areas of improvement
  • Working knowledge of the data, integration, and platform capabilities required for AI solutions, including secure access to approved enterprise data.
  • Proven track record of delivering complex and large-scale IT solutions, including modernization and integration work (APIs, data pipelines) in regulated environments.
  • Working knowledge of insurance regulatory/compliance considerations that impact ability to partner with Compliance/Legal to ensure controls and evidence are in place.
  • Experience with test governance (test-driven development (TDD), parallel testing, defect triage with business SMEs, and sign-off processes).
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate with peers and leaders.
  • Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance short-term and long-term objectives and trade-offs.
  • Highly adaptable, flexible, and resilient, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

When you join our team:

  • 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.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

À propos de Manuvie et de John Hancock

La Société Financière Manuvie est un chef de file mondial des services financiers qui aide les gens à prendre leurs décisions plus facilement et à vivre mieux. Pour en apprendre plus à notre sujet, rendez vous à l’adresse www.manuvie.com.

Manuvie est un employeur qui souscrit au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi

Chez Manulife/John Hancock nous valorisons notre diversité. Nous nous efforçons d’attirer, de perfectionner et de maintenir une main d'oeuvre qui est aussi diversifiée que nos clients, et de favoriser la création d’un milieu de travail inclusif qui met à profit la diversité de nos employés et les compétences de chacun. Nous nous engageons à assurer un recrutement, une fidélisation, une promotion et une rémunération équitables, et nous administrons toutes nos pratiques et tous nos programmes sans discrimination en raison de la race, de l’ascendance, du lieu d’origine, de la couleur, de l’origine ethnique, de la citoyenneté, de la religion ou des croyances ou des convictions religieuses, du genre (y compris grossesse et affection liée à une grossesse), de l’orientation sexuelle, des caractéristiques génétiques, du statut d’ancien combattant, de l’identité de genre, de l’expression de genre, de l’âge, de l’état matrimonial, de la situation de famille, d’une invalidité ou de tout autre motif protégé par la loi applicable.

Nous nous sommes donné comme priorité d’éliminer les obstacles à l’accès égalitaire à l’emploi. C’est pourquoi un représentant des Ressources humaines collaborera avec les candidats qui demandent accommodement raisonnable pendant le recrutement. Tous les renseignements communiqués pendant le processus de demande d'accommodement seront stockés et utilisés conformément aux lois et aux politiques applicables de Manuvie. Pour demander une mesure d’accommodement raisonnable dans le cadre du recrutement, écrivez à hr@manulife.com.

Referenced Salary Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Modalités de travail

Hybride

Salary range is expected to be between

$92,475.00 USD - $160,290.00 USD

Les employés ont également la possibilité de participer à des programmes incitatifs et de recevoir une rémunération liée à la performance de l’entreprise et des individus. Le salaire réel variera selon les conditions du marché local, la région géographique et les facteurs propres au poste, tels que les connaissances, les compétences, les qualifications, l’expérience et la formation. Si vous postulez à ce poste en dehors de votre lieu principal, veuillez contacter hr@manulife.com pour connaître la fourchette salariale applicable à votre région.

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.

We use data and analytics technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and automated processing tools, to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process. For more information, please refer to our personal information collection statement.

Know Your Rights I Family & Medical Leave I Employee Polygraph Protection I Right to Work I E-Verify

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

Pour toute question concernant cet employeur et le processus de demande d’emploi, veuillez contacter :


Lynne MacDonald

Recruiter

E mail: Lynne_MacDonald@manulife.com


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