Manulife

Manager, Customer Service

Montreal, Quebec Full time

As a Customer Service Manager, you will lead high‑performing teams that deliver exceptional support across both banking and insurance business lines. You’ll champion a strong customer experience while ensuring consistent, compliant, and high‑quality service in a regulated environment.

In this role, you’ll empower and develop engaged teams, drive operational excellence, and balance customer needs with business priorities and regulatory requirements. The successful candidate is a people‑focused leader with strong operational judgment, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for creating meaningful impact—for customers, teams, and the organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Build high-performing teams through coaching and mentoring on career growth; proactively address performance issues and minimize risks.
  • Elevate customer experience across phone, email, chat, and digital, own complex escalations end-to-end with timely, fair resolutions.
  • Drive operational excellence: meet Service level agreements (SLAs), improve processes, and adopt new technologies to boost efficiency and productivity.
  • Identify, recommend, and coordinate implementation of solutions that enhance effectiveness and reduce customer effort.
  • Ensure employees have the tools, resources, and timely updates needed to perform; maintain confidentiality and appropriate handling of critical information.
  • Uphold strong risk management, compliance, and governance, including complaint management, privacy, confidentiality, and legislative changes with effective controls.
  • Manage workforce capacity, scheduling, and change enablement; lead staff meetings and unify teams with fellow managers to improve standards and procedures.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally (workforce planning, technology, compliance, product) to deliver continuous improvement and consistent service.
  • Occasional travel to other Manulife sites

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of customer service experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or management role.
  • Experience in a regulated environment, preferably banking, insurance, or financial services.
  • Strong people‑leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to coach, motivate, and develop teams.
  • Proven ability to manage operations, priorities, and change in a fast‑paced service environment.
  • Excellent communication, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
  • Bilingualism (English and French) is an asset. If the successful candidate is in Québec, proficiency in both languages will be required to support clients from various provinces outside of Quebec.

When you join our team:

  • We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
  • We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
  • As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact hr@manulife.com.

Referenced Salary Location

Montreal, Quebec

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$88,800.00 CAD - $138,800.00 CAD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact hr@manulife.com for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact hr@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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