Head of Diversity and Inclusion

Head of Diversity and Inclusion

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in management, human resources, or law is ideal for this role.
• Proven leadership in diversity and inclusion, change management, and in executing groundbreaking initiatives.
• 10 years of relevant work experience in Human Resources, diversity, leadership development/learning, organizational development, or work in a related field.
• The ability to use data to build consensus, get strategic partners on board, and to show results.
• Experience building a clear vision for the future of D&I, and in communicating it in a way that ensures clarity and encourages action.
• Strong project leadership and project management skills, with strong executive presence.
• You’re a strategic problem solver who can optimally articulate the business case for inclusion and diversity.
• An ability to translate strategy into action by aligning enterprise and business unit priorities.
• Experience leading people, including influencing up, down and across a complex organization.
• You are creative and innovative, with the capability to lead change through your knack for influencing others.
• You lead with intelligence and analytics, which enables you to focus on key issues and make decisions quickly.
• Extensive experience developing diversity strategies in the United States.
• Solid understanding of US employment laws and obligations.
• Ability to be agile and flexible to deliver in fast-paced, evolving environment.
• You prefer data-driven decision-making, including robust tracking of progress against project plan.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to influence others, including the ability to communicate with confidence and empathy on issues of inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of John Hancock’s D&I priorities, programs and reporting processes in support of driving John Hancock’s business strategy forward.
• Drive the implementation of our D&I strategy across John Hancock business.
• Participate in important external Business and D & I activities and events consistent with John Hancock’s US outreach and corporate responsibilities initiatives.
• Identify the diversity needs in our US division, recommend own the development of key programs that help achieve measurable results and long-term behavior change by making use of both internal resources/educational tools, and external consultants/professional associations.
• Integrate and optimize D&I standard methodologies in collaboration with the global D&I team, HR and the broader business.
• Help to establish outcome performance measures, metrics and analytics to show how various diversity initiatives have impacted the organization.
• In partnership with the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion and other regional leads, you will contribute to the development of the global D&I strategy as it relates to Manulife/John Hancock’s overall corporate strategy.
• Provide governance oversight for John Hancock D&I programs and external partnerships.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to lead, assess, develop, implement, measure and continuously improve key initiatives/programs to achieve both global and US D&I objectives.
• Use your D&I knowledge, resources, standard methodologies and experience to provide to John Hancock executives with D&I leadership capability.
• Collaborate with internal and external regional partners to support the corporate citizenship agenda in relation to D&I initiatives and diverse communities.
• Partner with US HR Partners and global CoEs to infuse D&I strategy into the talent processes (i.e. recruitment, onboarding, performance management, programming/training, talent retention strategies, etc.).
• Ensure communication of external partnership resources, commitments and the US calendar of events.
• Serve as an inspiring D&I leader internally and external for John Hancock.
• Partner with our internal legal, risk and compliance groups to ensure the US is meeting and exceeding all employment legislation, including EEOC, and use metrics and relevant data analytics to drive new (or grow existing) programs.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.