General Manager, Retirement Product & Marketing

Challenger Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Parental leave

Challenger Day

Support leave

Extra super

Employee share plan

EAP

On-site café

Job summary

Challenger Limited in Sydney, NSW, seeks a General Manager, Product & Marketing to shape retirement income solutions. You’ll lead the strategy, design, pricing and launch of our product portfolio, and bring product, brand and customer insights together to drive strong customer outcomes and growth.

You’ll also lead the marketing function to boost adviser engagement and market propositions, partnering with distribution and key stakeholders in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading product, proposition or retirement solutions within financial services, with experience across retirement income, superannuation, wealth, life insurance or annuities highly relevant.
• Strong end-to-end product experience, including developing product strategy and taking propositions from customer or market need through design, commercialisation, launch and ongoing management.
• A strong understanding of the Australian retirement and superannuation landscape, including the evolving needs of retirees, advisers and superannuation funds.
• Commercial acumen and experience owning product performance, growth outcomes and investment or business cases.
• Experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to bring different disciplines together around clear priorities and accountabilities.

Responsibilities

• Leading Challenger’s retirement income product portfolio, setting its strategy and taking accountability for product development, commercial performance and ongoing evolution.
• Owning the end-to-end product lifecycle, translating customer and market insights into propositions, leading product design and pricing, and overseeing launch and ongoing optimisation.
• Identifying opportunities to evolve and innovate Challenger’s retirement solutions, including guaranteed lifetime income and broader propositions.
• Driving revenue, FUM, profitability and growth through sound business and investment cases for new opportunities, while balancing customer outcomes, risk and regulatory requirements in product decision-making and governance.
• Leading the marketing strategy across brand, customer acquisition, engagement and retention, using customer, adviser and market insights to keep activity closely connected to our product and growth priorities.
• Partnering with Distribution and engaging with advisers, superannuation funds and other institutional partners, research houses and other key stakeholders.
• Leading and developing a high-performing team across product management, customer insights and marketing.

Skills

retirement products

product strategy

team leadership

stakeholder management

financial services

Job description

Challenger Limited in Sydney, NSW, seeks a General Manager, Product & Marketing to shape retirement income solutions. You’ll lead the strategy, design, pricing and launch of our product portfolio, and bring product, brand and customer insights together to drive strong customer outcomes and growth.

You’ll also lead the marketing function to boost adviser engagement and market propositions, partnering with distribution and key stakeholders in a hybrid work environment.