Strategy Analyst

5 months ago


Toronto, Canada Manulife Full time

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

Global Wealth Asset Management (GWAM) is a one of the two areas of growth for MFC and contributes three of the ten Must-Win Battles (MWBs). WAM’s ambition is to become a Top-25 money manager in the world by 2022 and contribute almost a quarter of MFC’s earnings.

The **Strategy Analyst **role is an integral contributor to this ambition. This role assists the various team members in ad-hoc analysis of strategic ideas and periodic reporting, and is independently responsible for reporting on competitor activity to the head of the business. The role will report to the AVP, WAM strategy.

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Develop appropriate communication material**
- Assist in developing appropriate communication material for various external audiences like analyst meetings/calls, rating agency presentations, and external conferences.
- Work with Marketing Communications & assist in developing the internal WAM team communications plan to effectively communicate the WAM strategy and periodic progress against it.
- Co-ordinate the development of Board presentations, Executive Leadership Team (ELT) presentations, and CEO presentations with Corporate Strategy team.

**Maintain competitor lens reporting**
- Leverage deep industry knowledge to effectively partner with and collaborate across business and functional teams at all levels.
- Produce periodic reporting on competitor activities including M&A and business results for Head of business.

**Work on ad-hoc strategic projects**
- Work with a team of three Directors and one Associate Vice President on ad-hoc strategic analysis which may involve market entry analysis, diagnosis into businesses or customer segments, blue sky strategic analysis.
- Minimum of 1-3 years of working experience, preferably in investment banking, management consulting, research or wealth & asset management.
- Result-oriented with an ability to multi-task, prioritize multiple initiatives and develop solutions where blueprints may not exist.
- Strong business acumen with an aptitude for strategic, critical and analytical thinking.
- Superior communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Strong emotional intelligence to deal with sensitive information & senior audience.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate succinctly.
- Ability to parse through large amounts of data to extract insights.
- Financial modelling skills.
- Technology savvy - understand trends impacting the WAM industry
- Ability to collaborate and impact/influence across segments/regions _. _

**About Manulife and John Hancock**

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

**Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Salary & Benefits**

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

**Primary Location**

Toronto, Ontario

**Salary range is expected to be between**

$60,000.00 CAD - $100,000.00 CAD

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short


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