The posting
As AVP, Investment Portfolio Oversight & Strategy Reporting, you will lead the governance, performance measurement, and executive reporting of the US Segment’s strategic and transformation investment portfolio—ensuring investments are prioritized, governed, measured and reported with clarity and objectivity. Reporting to the VP, Head of Strategy & Transformation, you will serve as a trusted, independent advisor to senior leadership, providing the insight leaders need to understand whether investments are delivering and what to do next. You will also oversee the division’s recurring strategy reporting cycle, ensuring a consistent, accurate story across executive, board and investor materials.
Position Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the investment governance framework for strategic and transformation investments, including intake standards, business-case requirements, stage-gates and decision rights, aligned with enterprise frameworks and controls.
- Maintain a single, trusted view of the investment portfolio and provide independent oversight of investment health across scope, financials, timeline, resourcing, risk and value.
- Lead portfolio performance reporting, including moving beyond status to insight - surfacing trends, trade-offs and recommended actions for leadership decisions.
- Provide the analytical foundation for investment prioritization, including scoring, scenario modelling, and funding visibility in partnership with Finance, and recommend where to accelerate, re-scope, pause or stop investments.
- Design and lead the benefits-realization framework, ensuring material investments have measurable outcomes that are baselined, tracked, and validated.
- Identify portfolio-level risks, dependencies and roadblocks early, bringing options and recommendations to decision-makers.
- Oversee the strategy reporting calendar and provide senior review of executive, board, and external disclosure content, ensuring accuracy, consistency and a single source of truth.
- Modernize reporting through automation, AI-enabled analytics and standardized tools.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering objectivity, accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering or a related quantitative discipline; an MBA, advanced degree or professional designation (e.g., CFA, CPA, PfMP) is an asset.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in strategy, portfolio management, investment governance, transformation, corporate finance or management consulting within a large, complex organization.
- 5+ years of people leadership experience building and developing high-performing analytical or advisory teams.
- Experience preparing and presenting executive- and board-level reporting, including oversight of recurring reporting cycles in a public company or regulated environment.
- Strong financial acumen, analytical rigor and executive communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into a clear point of view and influence without direct authority.
- Experience in financial services (insurance, wealth or asset management preferred); advanced analytics and data-visualization skills (e.g., Power BI, AI Tools) are an asset.
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.
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The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.
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].
Referenced Salary Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Working Arrangement
Hybrid
Salary range is expected to be between
$152,900.00 USD - $283,800.00 USD
Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. 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. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location.
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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