Job Description

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You've come to the right place. We're looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you.

Working Arrangement Hybrid



Are you an experienced and sought-after leader looking for unlimited opportunities to develop and succeed? With work that makes a difference in a flexible and supportive environment, while assisting our business to keep the lights on at the Bank?

Manulife Bank's Operations team is seeking a Manager, Business Support to join our Business Services & Development team. The BSD team is a central support area for all of Manulife Bank and is accountable for providing support to the Bank through day-to-day support on incidents and issues, security access, business unit contingency, training and enablement support.

Reporting to the Director, Business Services and Development, the successful candidate will be a highly motivated, influential, accountable and passionate leader who has a proven leadership track record in building engaged teams, strong peer relationships and facilitating the resolution to problems while supporting the Bank's teams, systems and processes in a fast-paced and changing environment.

What will I be doing?

Leading an engaged team of ~6 Support Analysts and 3 Trainers in Halifax and Waterloo through coaching, recognition, recruitment, and development

Providing leadership with day-to-day support issues affecting the Bank and liaise with both Bank IT and business stakeholders on effective resolution of issues.

Communicating effectively and regularly to a varied audience of direct reports, peers, and senior management on issues and changes affecting the Bank

Proactively interacting and communicating with stakeholders and build strong relationships with partners in the Bank, Operations, IT, Shared Services and the greater Manulife teams

Providing leadership and direction on security access protocols for Bank staff and ensure processes and approvals are adhered to and timely managed

Owning and maintaining the Bank's Intake Model utilizing JIRA Service Desk for all Bank issues, incidents, system access, and changes and enhancements (tech or no tech)

Leading the Bank's initiative training team and being accountable for governance for Operations procedures and System Security access management for Bank staff

Managing risks and monitoring key controls for your team

Leveraging your analytical and critical thinking skills to ask questions, understand our business drivers and needs, and bring order to resolving escalated issues to mitigate customer and business impact and coordinate our response

Owning resource estimation & scheduling within your team, ensuring we are in alignment with business priorities and our financial plan

You will know or be learning agile and will be actively coaching your team on agile ways of working; you will lead team scrums and help remove roadblocks and continuously improve

Am I Right for the job?

You are an experienced, sought-after leader with a proven track record of attracting talent, motivating your team and driving employee engagement with at least 3 years' experience in a leadership role

You enjoy supporting other teams/peers with problems and helping to bringing groups together to tackle issues and facilitate resolution

You are accountable - you make it happen, you own it and you find solutions

You are laser focused on the customer, putting their needs first when considering how to tackle and resolve an issue and championing for them and our stakeholders

You have excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills - you build trust

You have experience with technology and can translate technical information into plain business language

You consider operational risks and ensure effective controls are in place for your team

You are a master communicator - you can clearly articulate business needs between technical and non-technical resources as well as present strategy and vision to senior management

You are resilient, adaptable to change and lead others through change

You learn fast. You pick up new ideas, concepts, technologies, and tools easily

You are dedicated to continuous improvement, including digitization and innovation

You are familiar with Agile principles, continuous improvement and Lean methodologies

The project management, analysis and/or support professions aren't new to you. You've spent 3 years or more growing your knowledge, skills, decision-making and experience in this line of work and you have a clear track record of success

You are a strategic thinker with the ability to think conceptually beyond day-to-day business realities and to effectively consider downstream and stakeholder impacts and can coach your team to do the same

You have a proven ability to collaborate and negotiate with various stakeholders with competing priorities, you maintain your composure and bring your best-self during challenging times and interactions

You're comfortable driving solution progress forward - even when your team doesn't have all the answers yet

You're already familiar with financial services and bank products and the types of technology solutions that allow a business to manage them

Assets

Related experience with leading teams that are in a supportive role to help enable teams, peers, stakeholders to deliver and run the business

Related experience in leading teams that partner well and often with IT colleagues

Agile experience

Strong knowledge of banking products, Manulife Bank operations and/or systems, and or experience in other financial services/banking industry

Knowledge of RPA (robotic process automation) tools and software

Knowledge of Business Process Mapping and Notation and MS Visio

Strong MS Excel/Access skills

So what's next? If you're interested in the idea of joining our team don't let this complete list of items deter you. Send us a resume and a cover letter telling us about yourself and why you want to work with us. We are looking for our next great team member - and we want to hear from YOU!

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About John Hancock and Manulife

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were CAD$1.3 trillion (US$1.1 trillion) as of June 30, 2021. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at .

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including , , , , and . Additional information about John Hancock may be found at .

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.

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