You desire impactful work. You're RGA ready RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today's challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies , we're the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all. A Brief Overview Support Asia PMO Lead in managing/overseeing the Asia Pacific Project Portfolios to ensure alignment with organizational goals, optimal resource allocation, and successful delivery of outcomes. Leads and manages multiple, large and complex cross-functional programs/projects in the region. Provides leadership and direction on Program strategy, scoping and timeline to achieve global objectives on time and within budget. What You Will Do Establish and manage a strategic portfolio plan aligned with organizational objectives. Monitor portfolio progress, budgets, schedules, and quality standards to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. Develop and enforce portfolio governance frameworks, including criteria for project evaluation, prioritization, and decision-making processes. Drive continuous improvement in portfolio management processes and tools, including adoption of project portfolio management (PPM) software, in collaboration with Enterprise PMO teams. Communicate portfolio status, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership and stakeholders through reports and dashboards. Act as a subject matter expert for portfolio management methodologies such as ideation, demand intake, phase-gate governance, prioritization and benefit realization. Lead and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to determine project deliverables and deliver meaningful business outcomes. Engage with cross-functional stakeholders within RGA to ensure current and future work is aligned to meet the business's best interests. Create and maintain the Program plan, showing an integrated realization of the key Program deliverables as well as Program timelines. Develop appropriate business artifacts, including but not limited to business requirements, test plans, business processes and decks. Responsible for program reporting, monitoring, governance and stakeholder communication from C-Level Executives to cross-functional department heads. Identify, report, mitigate and resolve key risks and dependencies between the various aspects of the Program. Facilitate conflict resolution, including escalations as necessary. Establish and manage a strategic portfolio plan aligned with organizational objectives. Monitor portfolio progress, budgets, schedules, and quality standards to to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. Plan and manage resources, ensuring all projects meet scope, quality and budget expectations. Facilitate prioritization and scheduling of team objectives and workflow. Establish and facilitate meetings (communicate agenda, manage meeting time productively, accomplish meeting objectives, document action items and next steps). Schedule and coordinate rollout, training and implementation of Program improvements and system deployments. Mentor staff on the team including, but not limited to, coaching, training, and evaluating. Embrace a high level of change with competing internal customer expectations in a highly customer-focused environment. Proactively enforce and advance best practices and consistent Program management practices, policies and guidelines. Maintain current knowledge of industry practices, trends and applications. Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent work experience. required. Graduate degree and/or relevant professional accreditations preferred. Extensive, demonstrated program and project management experience. required. 15+ Years business experience required. Lean Six Sigma experience preferred. Experience in implementing change, ensuring understanding, participation and ownership required. Exceptional project leadership, project management, and/or program management experience required. Expert knowledge of project management tools, including MS Office (e.g. Visio, Project and PowerPoint) and SharePoint required. Exceptional communication, organization, planning, and execution skills. Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, demonstrating the ability to convey business terminology that is meaningful and well received by all stakeholders required. Exceptional ability to play an active role in developing and actioning departmental vision and goals through collaboration, creative thinking, maintaining focus, and persistence, even under adversity, while maintaining the confidence of Program stakeholders. Versatile administrative and facilitation skills to keep the Program team focused on its objectives required. Advanced analytical, investigative and critical thinking skills, with superior people management skills to effectively influence colleagues at all levels in an informal global reporting structure. Highly advanced investigative, analytical and problem solving skills utilizing experience, research, guidelines and internal resources. Expert ability to analyze and recommend improvements to business processes required. Well organized with ability to manage multiple tasks and projects and/or sub-teams simultaneously, including the ability to handle changing priorities. Advanced use of variety of tools and talent to organize information used to creatively and professionally lead broad teams in execution required. Excellent persuasion and negotiation skills when working with Program stakeholders to resolve issues/problems required. Ability to seek out and secure engagement of resources as needed across multiple functional areas required. Exceptional ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines required. Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions. Advanced ability to understand and meet clients' needs required. Track record of innovative thought and entrepreneurial endeavor. Ability to work successfully in a fast moving and often pressured environment required. Exceptional ability to foster teamwork and a customer service focused environment required. Appropriate project management certifications (e.g. Project Management Professional (PMP) required. - KW1 What you can expect from RGA Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world. Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought. Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential. Show more Show less