AVP, Global People Services – Readiness & Innovation

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About the role

  • AVP leading Manulife’s global HR service readiness, product enablement, and innovation. Coordinating scalable launches, regional delivery, training, knowledge, automation, and AI.

Responsibilities

  • Translate GPS strategy into practical readiness, product, knowledge, training, and innovation priorities
  • Assess operating-model effectiveness and address gaps, duplication, handoffs, and capability needs
  • Align service scope, ownership, channels, and enabling capabilities
  • Lead intake, impact assessment, planning, validation, cutover, hypercare, and post-launch review for GPS changes
  • Confirm ownership, processes, controls, capacity, technology, data, knowledge, training, communications, escalation paths, and success measures before go-live
  • Manage cross-service dependencies, resource constraints, sequencing, and launch risks
  • Translate colleague and stakeholder needs into scalable service models, journeys, workflows, requirements, and product roadmaps
  • Lead GPS product ownership and build an innovation pipeline spanning automation, AI, self-service, workflow, and knowledge
  • Set standards for operational knowledge, procedures, playbooks, learning content, and readiness evidence
  • Ensure approved knowledge, role-based training, communications, and adoption support are available before launch
  • Use quality, search, case, and experience insights to improve effectiveness and reduce avoidable contacts and errors
  • Lead regional Service Delivery Managers for International, North America, and Asia
  • Coordinate readiness across COEs, People Partners, Technology, Operations, and delivery teams
  • Build regional accountability for stakeholder engagement, launch preparation, risk management, adoption, and stabilization
  • Provide dashboards and readiness reviews covering demand, status, dependencies, decisions, adoption, and benefits
  • Track launch quality, disruption, knowledge effectiveness, training, adoption, automation, and stakeholder confidence
  • Recommend what to start, stop, sequence, defer, or remediate
  • Lead the GPS Innovation Leader, GPS Product Owner, Knowledge Readiness and Training Analyst, and three regional GPS Service Delivery Managers
  • Build an integrated, high-performing team connecting strategy, design, technology, knowledge, training, regional readiness, and adoption

Requirements

  • Senior leadership experience in global HR operations, shared services, service design, readiness, product management, transformation, or innovation
  • Proven success establishing operating models, governance, service standards, and launch disciplines across global and regional teams
  • Experience translating policy, process, technology, data, and organizational change into sustainable operations
  • Strong knowledge of HR service delivery, employee experience, knowledge and learning, digital products, workflow, automation, and AI-enabled operations
  • Executive presence and analytical judgment
  • Stakeholder influence
  • Experience leading geographically distributed teams

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Mental health benefits
  • Vision insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Adoption/surrogacy benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Employee/family assistance plans
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Pension
  • Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
  • Financial education and counseling resources
  • Paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
  • Statutory leaves of absence
  • Learning and career development opportunities
  • Incentive programs and incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance

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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