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Manulife Financial Corporation

Director, Digitization & Automation, GWAM & GA Asia Operations

Manulife Financial Corporation
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hybrid executive full-time

First indexed 3 Oct 2026

Description

The Director, Digitization & Automation, GWAM & GA Asia Operations drives the identification, design, and delivery of scalable digitization, automation, and digital solutions across the business, with a strong customer and operational lens.

This role blends automation-led transformation with data-driven insights and digital enablement to deliver measurable outcomes across highly matrixed, global operations.

We’re looking for an individual who demonstrates a focus and passion for the customer and the business. A collaborative, transparent individual who can create and communicate a vision and engage others to work towards objectives.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Drive demand for, and delivery of, digitization, automation and business intelligence solutions in partnership with key stakeholders
  • Drive leading-edge innovation and digital as the core of delivery
  • Define and govern the right data and digital tools to solve business problems at scale
  • Lead process redesign and transformation, reducing customer and employee effort while improving quality, speed, and resilience
  • Own process assessment and intake, including suitability evaluation, cost/benefit analysis, prioritization, and resourcing
  • Build and lead a high-energy, high-impact team capable of delivering automation, digitization, and digital solutions at scale
  • Increase the volume and velocity of automation delivery, driving efficiency, capacity creation, and operational risk mitigation
  • Provide end-to-end engagement management, including executive communications and delivery oversight

Required Qualifications:

  • University degree and/or equivalent practical experience
  • Previous experience managing/overseeing automation/AI at scale in complex environments
  • Strong knowledge of AI, automation, and digital tools, with awareness of emerging technology trends, including knowledge of Microsoft stack of technology (e.g., Power Platform, Azure)
  • Able to lead & influence change within processes and drive the teams towards new solutions or improvements of existing solutions, through constant challenges of the status quo
  • Ability to break down complex cases, recommend and implement a solution
  • Proven effectiveness as a change agent in complex operational environments
  • Role model our leadership behaviors
  • Financial acumen, including experience managing costs and articulating benefits
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, judgment, and decision-making skills
  • Proven effectiveness in working within a matrixed, geographically dispersed team and leverage knowledge across the organization
  • Effective communication skills - varying audiences ranging from executives to front line employees
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced, and ever-changing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A hands-on, entrepreneurial leader with energy and passion for transformation that delivers real results
  • Technically proficient, with strong understanding of technologies and how to leverage them appropriately to achieve desired outcomes
  • Strong curiosity and desire to make the complex clear and to always ask “why”
  • Strong customer and business orientation , always designing solutions with strategy and outcomes in mind
  • Highly collaborative, transparent, and comfortable operating with stakeholders
  • Strong ability to manage teams, keeping them motivated and engaged
  • Curious and analytical, with the ability to simplify complexity and challenge the status quo constructively
  • Organized, self-directed, and effective at managing multiple, concurrent initiatives

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