Director, Partnership Distribution, Asia

The Director, Partnership Distribution, Asia will partner with regional and local country leadership teams to enable the delivery of bancassurance financial and non-financial performance targets.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with regional and local country leadership teams to develop a framework and drive a connected approach to deliver growth and transformation.
• Collaborate with regional, local executives and cross-function teams to ensure delivery of strategic initiatives, financial and non-financial results, management of in-force blocks of businesses, and maximising synergies across partnerships.
• Recommend and implement strategic initiatives to accelerate partnership results.
• Formulate and implement product propositions strategies, sales and marketing plans, process and platform initiatives to support partnership penetrations and channel management.
• Enable the development and implementation of the strategic planning process to achieve business goals.
• Prepare strategy deliverables and presentations for each business unit.
• Monitor industry developments, trends, market intelligence, and perform benchmarking analysis and peer comparison.
• Analyse customer behaviour to maintain competitiveness in the market.
• Support ad-hoc special projects to support partnership growth.

Performance and Business Management:

• Partner with markets on specific performance improvement areas.
• Coordinate with bank partners and internal departments.
• Analyse financial and operational data to perform variance analysis.
• Coordinate monthly business review meetings.
• Drive and manage ad-hoc/special projects.

Portfolio and In-Force Management:

• Partner with regional and senior country leadership teams to review and manage in-force blocks of businesses.
• Establish management reporting.
• Develop clearly defined KPIs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or above.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in distribution, actuarial, product development, product pricing, strategy, or finance in the life insurance industry.
• Strong business acumen, customer and market focus.
• Proven strategic thinking and execution skills.
• Strong financial/data analysis skills.
• Proactive and operative with a sense of urgency.
• Change management/ambiguity skills.
• Detail-oriented.
• Research, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Project management skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Expert skills in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Flexibility and cultural awareness.

Benefits:

• Empowerment to learn and grow.
• Recognition and support in a flexible environment.
• Part of a global team.