Associate Director, Regulatory Transformation and Governance

Associate Director, Regulatory Transformation and Governance

Manulife, Quezon City, National Capital Region, Philippines

We’re looking for an Associate Director, Regulatory Transformation and Governance to join our ICT team at MBPS. In this role, you are involved in providing strategic leadership and oversight for regulatory transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enhancing compliance practices through innovation and data‑driven strategies. This position requires leading a high‑performing team, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration, and managing the lifecycle of compliance policies. Additionally, the role includes developing and executing a multi‑year transformation roadmap, leading the Compliance Organizational Resiliency program, integrating resiliency frameworks into compliance planning, and promoting a culture of compliance and resiliency across the organization.

Position Responsibilities

• Governance, Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement : Deliver board‑level reporting, support governance committees, enhance transparency and accountability, and translate complex data into actionable intelligence.
• Policy Governance : Oversee compliance policy lifecycle management, ensure timely updates, lead harmonization efforts, and ensure timely attestations with effective testing.
• Compliance Organizational Resiliency (COR) : Lead the COR program, develop documentation, coordinate training, identify critical functions, monitor trends, integrate resiliency frameworks, ensure monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate training programs.
• Process Improvements, Reviews, and Corrective Action Planning : Lead continuous improvement initiatives, conduct process audits, develop corrective action plans, identify resource constraints, recommend enhancements, and establish feedback loops.
• Leadership : Provide strategic leadership, oversee global regulatory initiatives, serve as a senior advisor, lead cross‑functional forums, champion innovation, represent the Regulatory Transformation function, influence policy, drive strategic communication, and establish performance metrics.
• People Management : Lead and develop a high‑performing team, set goals, foster innovation, provide coaching and career support, conduct performance reviews, promote collaboration, ensure training readiness, manage resources, and champion diversity and inclusion.
• Strategy : Design and execute a regulatory transformation roadmap, implement assessment methodologies, translate trends into strategies, align initiatives with risk appetite, use insights to inform decisions, collaborate with senior leaders, support governance, and champion innovation.
• Process & Thematic Reviews : Lead reviews of high‑risk processes, conduct targeted assessments, develop assessment criteria, ensure team training, promote evaluation consistency, facilitate debriefs, and track action implementation.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication : Develop communication platforms, facilitate cross‑functional meetings, and translate project data into insights for leadership.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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