Job Description

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Working Arrangement

Hybrid



We are seeking a dedicated Director, Advanced Analytics to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will be a strong individual contributor and a senior member of the Canada Wealth and Asset Management Advanced Analytics team, and will be responsible for building systematic, modular and scalable advanced analytics solutions and data products to help grow the business and improve operations.

The Advanced Analytics Director leverages and shares their deep knowledge of a wide variety of data analytics topics and helps others to improve their knowledge and understanding of the use of data and technology.

The ideal candidate will:

Deliver business value via best-in-class Advanced Analytics projects

• Transform business requests into value-add, impactful, and intelligent data products and capabilities that solve business problems, using the latest technology and analytical techniques (including predictive regression/classification models, clustering, neural networks, generative AI, etc depending on the use case).
• Work closely with business teams to collaboratively assess, understand, improve, and deliver better outcomes through data, and re-imagine business processes along the way.
• Understand the tradeoffs and advantages of building custom models vs using external APIs, and knowing when it is appropriate to build vs buy.

Prioritize data as a shared asset

• Understand that an algorithm is only as good as the data that is fed to it.
• Understand and be comfortable with the messiness of working with large amounts of real-world data.
• Constantly improve data structure and quality in collaboration with partner teams.
• Think in a comprehensive and modular way about data products, and continuously improve existing data models to scale solutions beyond narrow \xe2\x80\x9cprojectized\xe2\x80\x9d approaches.

Iterate to achieve success

• Take a scientific and iterative approach to arrive at exceptional outcomes.
• Understand that the path to success is not linear, and not afraid to try, assess, and rebuild as needed.

Be a partner of choice

• Become a strong and equal collaborator, ready to listen, share, accept feedback, and get their hands dirty with partner teams.
• Help people in the business better understand the use of data and analytics, drawing on a thorough understanding of and experience with technologies for intelligent automation, data science, etc.

Qualifications:

• University degree in quantitative based field (e.g. Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science) preferred
• Advanced experience with cloud technologies, particularly Azure.
• Advanced technological experience in Python, SQL, Spark, and interacting with APIs, etc.
• Advanced experience in building Advanced Analytics solutions in corporate environments, including project management, communication, and delivery.
• Experience providing data analysis to support management decisions.
• Experience with analytics tools and visualization tools a plus.
• Experience with Salesforce data integration a plus.
• Financial services experience desired.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

• Values-first culture

We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. * Boundless opportunity

We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. * Continuous innovation

We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. * Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. * Championing Corporate Citizenship

We build a business that benefits all collaborators and has a positive social and environmental impact.

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 \xe2\x80\x98MFC\xe2\x80\x99 on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under \xe2\x80\x98945\xe2\x80\x99 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 .

Salary & Benefits

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Primary Location Toronto, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between $105,070.00 CAD - $195,130.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact 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 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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