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Manulife Director, Digitization & Automation, GWAM & GA Asia Operations in Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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. The Director serves as a change agent, accelerating efficiency, creating capacity, reducing risk, and embedding digital and automation as core enablers of business strategy.

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. This role requires a highly visible individual who can drive change through relationships, thought leadership and exceptional business knowledge.

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.

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