Job Description

Appealing points: 

• Lead a mission-critical system migration with full ownership of end-to-end planning, delivery, and execution for a major insurance platform transformation.
• Showcase strong leadership in a cross-functional, multi-stakeholder environment , collaborating closely with IT, business teams, and offshore vendors.
• Leverage advanced project management expertise across PMLC, SDLC, Agile, regulatory delivery, budgeting, risk management, and enterprise-level governance.

Annual Salary: 10 Million and above

Job Description

• Manage successful delivery of the system migration of application and insurance policies from a legacy system to another policy admin system
• Responsible for the end to end planning and implementation of a major work stream that is critical to running business operations
• Establish good relationship with the project teams within IT and Business, communicate the goals effectively and set clear targets and deadlines
• Effectively manage the overall project budget, resource plans, scope and timelines to achieve on-time delivery
• Meet the Manulife Project governance standards and requirements through out the lifecycle of the project
• Contribute to improvement and strengthening of project delivery standards and processes
• Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver business critical projects
• Drive decisions regarding project priorities/business requirements to manage project scope, budget, resources and delivery risks
• Ensure quality of deliverables and compliance with internal procedures and policies
• Build & maintain working relationships with IT and business stakeholders for project control
• Manage dependencies within program streams and between projects with complex dependencies 
• Manage project deadlines, breakdown tasks, set targets and push the team to ensure timeliness
• Provide feedback, advice, guidance and encouragement to the team members
• Host regular project meetings with the team to closely monitor progress and report status updates to management
• Proactively recognize warning signs, raise risks and issues in a timely manner, develop risk mitigation plans to resolve risks & issues
• Communicate with the team frequently to update them about project progress and status updates
• Take ownership of the project budget, scope, timeline and effectively manage baseline change control
• Prepare project status reports on a weekly basis to update the management team and seek assistance when required

Job Qualification: 

• 5 or more years in the insurance industry (Life preferred)
• 10 or more years experience managing business critical projects end to end (experience across PMLC and SDLC)
• Past experience leading large programs with multiple projects with strong leadership in strategy, implementation and delegation
• 5 or more years in the insurance industry (Life preferred)
• Past experience specifically managing large scale cross-functional teams, offshore delivery vendors
• Past experience working in both Waterfall and Agile delivery environment in the insurance industry
• Experience in delivering projects under a regulatory environment in the financial services industry
• Demonstrate excellent leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills to lead cross-functional teams and coach/advise peers and staff
• Strong planning and organization skills with the ability to adapt to changes or unforeseen circumstances + ability to manage budgets and resource capacity
• Strong team building and motivational skills to resolve conflicts and focus on the delivery outcome
• Experienced in hiring and building effective project teams
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
• Excellent time management skills, goal setting and follow-up
• Thorough understanding of insurance products and insurance operations
• Team player, self-motivated, confident and results-driven
• Proficient in project management tools, templates and project life cycle 
• Insurance related certification (FLMI, SEIHO KOZA) preferred
• Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field preferred
• Bachelor's degree or certificate in computer science, software engineering
• Project Management certification strongly preferred (PMP, Prince2)
• Understanding of Agile & DevOps practices as applied to project management

Language Skills: Business level Japanese (N2 and above) and Business level English 

Company

This company is a leading foreign-affiliated solutions and services provider in the information, communications, and technology (ICT) industry. With more than 130,000 employees in 90 countries, they provide innovative IT solutions to nearly 1000 global customers, including Fortune 500 companies.

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