Adoption Team Lead

Key Responsibilities

1. Governance Adoption
• Localize and deploy global/regional governance.
• Maintain standards, templates, and playbooks.
• Monitor governance adoption and maturity.

2. Capability Development
• Develop Product Management, Change Leadership to enterprise wide.
• Lead training, coaching, Communities of Practice, certification, and maturity assessments.

3. Enterprise Adoption Strategy
• Define adoption roadmap, communication strategy, stakeholder engagement, and executive awareness.
• Drive enterprise-wide behavioral adoption.

4. Maturity Management
• Define and operate maturity models for Product Manager.

5. Transformation Enablement
• Provide governance consulting, facilitation, templates, and best practices to contribute to improve Product Manager capability company wide.

6. Performance Measurement
• Track governance adoption, capability maturity, Vision/Journey creation/Epic definition/CDF adoption, training completion, and value realization.

7. Community Leadership
• Lead Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile, and Change Champion communities.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead the Adoption team.
• Set annual roadmap and priorities.
• Coach team members.
• Collaborate with executives, business, technology, HR, and regional/global teams.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in Business/Digital Transformation, Agile Transformation, or Organizational Change.
• Experience with enterprise governance, capability development, executive stakeholder management, and Agile frameworks.
• Preferred: Financial Services/Insurance, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, Product Operating Model.

Required Skills

Enterprise Change Management, Agile Leadership, Product Operating Model, SAFe, Lean Thinking, Organizational Design, Learning & Development, Executive Communication, Facilitation, Governance Design, KPI Design, Coaching, Stakeholder Management.

Success Measures

Governance adoption, Product Owner capability improvement, Agile/CDF maturity improvement, organizational capability growth, executive engagement, community participation, and sustainable behavioral change.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

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