Project Manager , Strategic Planning

TW Life Project Manager, Strategic Planning

Taipei City, Taiwan

Job Description

Job Purposes/ Objectives: Being a strategic project manager responsible for delivering needle-moving initiatives with the overarching goal to fulfill business transformation enablers supporting business transformation and growth, operation efficiency as well as partner/ customer engagement.

This individual will be responsible for uncovering improvement areas and leading a variety of strategic initiatives across business functions, where he/she contributes the initiatives delivery that enables Chubb Life’s sustainable growth and involves stakeholders at all levels from multiple domains. The ideal candidate will be highly skilled in strategic problem solving, project planning/management, communication with ability to facilitate conversation across functions and global/ regional office stakeholders and tailor communication by audience across different levels. This person should be committed to delivering quality strategic initiatives and being catalyst of driving strategy into practice.

Responsibilities

• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels to facilitate selected cross-functional deep-dives and/ or any business needs/ gaps issued by senior leadership team or global/ reginal office to form the strategic initiatives.
• Deliver business critical initiatives via contextualizing the objectives / the key problems, particularly those that span multiple domains.
• Turn strategic initiatives into actions and develop project plans with solid project and change management methodology and skills to resolve inefficiencies and roadblocks with fact-based decision making and execution with agility, and to keep the projects against its strategic goals.
• Foster a positive project team environment and promote collaboration and communication among team members.
• Serve as trustworthy partner to Head of Strategic Planning to support the corporate planning presentations when needed, with the sense of maintaining confidentiality and discretion for the sake of the senior leadership team and /or the company.

Expected Contributions/ Results:

• Bear with strategic mindset to deliver high-quality project outcomes aligned to long-term strategic goals.
• Tailor project approaches by nature of each initiative to ensure delivery efficiency and effectiveness.
• Proactively manage all-level stakeholders, risks, escalations, and cross-team coordination.
• Apply PM methodologies consistently and communicate clearly to drive buy-in and action.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategic initiative delivery or project management office (PMO) preferably in the context of project implementation/transformation/change management, experience in building data foundation, digital products and/ or business/ operation transformation initiatives is a plus.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, ability to communicate complex ideas simply and effectively, both verbally and in writing, in Mandarin and in English.
• Pragmatic problem solving skills with proven experience in applying well-developed problem solving skills (quantitative, conceptual, analytical).
• Ability to collaborate with cross-country/function teams at all levels, experience with senior leadership team is a plus.
• Act as a fast learner to access business needs that span multi-domains with ability to apply strategic problem solving.
• Experience working as MA in multi-national company or matrix organization, financial service industry preferred, and strategy / transformation / tech consulting is a plus.
• Highly organized, versatile and dedicated to efficient productivity and attention to details.