AVP, Global People Services – Pathways

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About the role

  • AVP leading Manulife’s global HR lifecycle services and Pathways strategy. Driving automation, compliant delivery, executive support, and transformation across colleague transitions.

Responsibilities

  • Set the global strategy, roadmap, operating model, service standards, and decision rights for colleague pathways
  • Establish a scalable enterprise approach for colleague lifecycle events while accommodating local legal, regulatory, and cultural requirements
  • Lead global delivery of high-volume, complex, and high-risk colleague transitions
  • Set process standards and escalation models for consistent regional execution
  • Coordinate delivery across People & Comms, Payroll, Benefits, Mobility, Legal, Employee Relations, People Technology, People Partners, and business leaders
  • Manage service risks, capacity constraints, process gaps, and downstream impacts
  • Establish differentiated service and governance for executive, VIP, confidential, urgent, and business-critical cases
  • Oversee sensitive transitions and escalations requiring discretion, speed, accuracy, and senior judgment
  • Advise and influence senior stakeholders on pathway strategy, priorities, dependencies, risks, and actions
  • Resolve cross-functional ownership and accountability issues and represent GPS in senior enterprise forums
  • Simplify and standardize processes through digital tools, workflow automation, self-service, analytics, and AI
  • Create scalable global playbooks, intake and routing models, controls, and quality standards
  • Lead transformation of lifecycle operations while maintaining delivery stability, stakeholder readiness, and adoption
  • Establish dashboards and performance routines for visibility into priorities, capacity, risks, and outcomes
  • Develop global talent and a culture of ownership, learning, and service excellence

Requirements

  • Significant leadership experience in global HR operations, colleague lifecycle administration, shared services, service delivery, or HR transformation in a complex organization
  • Proven ability to set strategy, design operating models, standardize global processes, lead transformation, and deliver scalable outcomes
  • Strong knowledge of lifecycle events and related colleague data, payroll, benefits, technology, compliance, and cross-functional dependencies
  • Demonstrated discretion and judgment in executive, confidential, sensitive, and high-risk matters
  • Strong executive presence, stakeholder influence, communication, and decision-making in a global matrix
  • Experience using technology, automation, metrics, colleague insights, and controls to improve service while maintaining delivery stability and data integrity

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Well-being and inclusion support
  • Health, dental, mental health, and vision benefits
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • Adoption/surrogacy benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Employee/family assistance plans
  • Retirement savings plans, including pension
  • Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
  • Financial education and counseling resources
  • Paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days in Canada
  • Statutory leaves of absence

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$129,800 - CA$241,200 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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