Description

■Responsibilities
- Envision target state and roadmap considering customer needs and experience
- Plan and prioritize product development and product feature backlog
- Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they are clearly understood by relevant teams
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
- Mitigate roadblocks to achieving sprint/release goals
- Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
- Continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities/risks
- Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions

Required skills and qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in product development
- In-depth knowledge of agile methodology and direct experience in scrum delivery
- Understanding of business values related to features and functions with customer centric focus
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to effectively manage conflicting needs of stakeholders

Preferred skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in related discipline
- Product Owner Certification (SAFe POPM, SAFe SA, etc.)
- Proficiency with applicable project management tools and technology
- Native or business level for both Japanese and English
- 4+ years consulting firm experiences in insurance industry (life preferred)
- 4+ years insurance industry (life preferred) experience for leading projects

Internal Guidelines about Work from Home:

Hybrid Model, following Manulife's Working Better guidelines.

Over time:

0-40 hours/month.

Salary:

Based on our Work Rules, we will consider your experience, skills and knowledge when we decide the salary.

Commutation allowance and Variable Incentive Bonus are paid based on our Work Rules.

Working Hours:

Standard Working Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm (Include 1 hour break. Flex-time system available)

Benefits:

Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Employees' Pension, Unemployment Insurance, Worker's Accident Insurance), Benefit One, Training system (include Japanese lesson / English lesson), Childcare Leave/Family care Leave, Baby-sitter support program, wiwiw System (Support program for those who take Childcare Leave), Retirement Pension (only for Regular employee).

Holidays/Vacations:

Saturdays and Sundays

National Holidays

Year-end and new year holidays (December 30, December 31, January 2 and January 3)

Annual Paid Holiday

For Regular employee, other special holidays are available (e.g. Anniversary Leave, etc.)

Location:

Hatsudai Head Office, Tokyo Opera City, Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Japan

What motivates you?

Our commitment to you

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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