AVP, Change Portfolio Delivery Lead

Job Title

AVP, Change Portfolio Delivery Lead

Job Description

Role Overview

The Portfolio Lead is accountable for establishing and running a mature, enterprise-wide portfolio management capability within the Pacific Life Re's Business Change function, understanding how initiatives align to strategic priorities and ensuring they are delivered effectively. Within the Pacific Life Re's Business Change function this role will enable the Executive Committee and senior leadership, to make data driven, prioritised, and strategically aligned investment decisions.

Reporting to the VP, Business Change, the role leads the development of the Project Portfolio pipeline for one or more Lines of Business or DBS (Divisional Business Services) Functions, delivering integrated portfolio insight, governance, evaluation and prioritisation of projects based on business value, organizational capacity, and risk.

This role is critical in the evolution of the Business Change function within PL Re to a fully integrated, insight-led portfolio model.

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnering

Act as a trusted advisor to various divisional leadership and senior stakeholders and Committees Drive alignment across often competing priorities (LoBs, DBS Functions, Technology) Build strong relationships across Change, Finance, Strategy, Risk, and Technology Provide clear, concise updates to leadership teams

Planning & Capacity Management

Implement integrated planning processes across strategy, budgets, and delivery, ensuring pipeline demand is clearly communicated and agreed Challenge and shape demand to ensure alignment with business priorities Manage the intake, assessment, and prioritisation of change demand

Portfolio Strategy & Operating Model

Translate business strategy into a coherent and prioritised change pipelines, ensuring all initiatives are clearly linked to strategic objectives and value outcomes Establish a clear portfolio taxonomy, definitions (e.g. BAU vs strategic change), and consistent lifecycle framework Support investment planning, business case development, and funding decisions Align portfolio processes with Finance, Strategy, Technology, Risk and other enabling functions

Enterprise Portfolio Oversight & Insight

Manage and prioritise a portfolio of change initiatives aligned to business strategy Create and maintain a single integrated view of the change portfolio (strategic initiatives, regulatory, BAU change) Portfolio Governance: Help redefine the governance framework(s) for prioritizing, sequencing, and occasionally pausing change initiatives based on capacity and combined business impact – with clear alignment with other Executive Committees. Strengthen governance to ensure transparency, auditability and alignment to strategy Ensure clear visibility of delivery status, risks, issues, and interdependencies Deliver forward-looking portfolio insights including: Delivery health and performance Strategic alignment Capacity and resource constraints Interdependencies and risk hotspots Drive consistency in delivery standards, methodologies, and documentation Shift leadership conversations from project reporting → portfolio decision-making

Build Organisational Capability

Upskill the Business Change function and Business areas in portfolio thinking and disciplines Embed consistent standards, tools, and ways of working Continuous improvement: find ways to make Change more effective

Skills & Experience

10+ years of hands-on experience in portfolio / transformation / change leadership within; Insurance (Life, Reinsurance preferred), or Financial Services (Banking, Asset Management) Proven track record of establishing or maturing Portfolio / Transformation Offices (PMO++, EPMO, Portfolio Office) Deep expertise and qualifications in: Portfolio management frameworks (e.g. MoP, P3O, enterprise PMO models) Investment prioritisation and business case evaluation Portfolio analytics, reporting, and tools (e.g. Planview, Clarity, Power BI) Strong understanding of delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid)

Competencies And Behaviours

Strong Leadership Skills Including: Strong strategic thinking with ability to connect portfolio to business outcomes Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing at ExCo level Ability to challenge constructively and facilitate difficult trade-off decisions High credibility, resilience, and enterprise leadership presence Data-driven mindset with ability to translate analysis into insight Commercial awareness and value focus, with the ability to understand how change initiatives drive the right commercial outcomes and returns on investment

Working For Pacific Life Re

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