Assistant Manager, Strategic Business Development

Great Eastern; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern is seeking a Business Development Specialist to drive high NBEV sales by engaging the agency through product training and strategic initiatives. The role involves analyzing product performance, promoting brand awareness, and coordinating with sales teams to deliver effective campaigns.

You will lead training, craft communications, and ensure regulatory compliance while identifying opportunities to improve productivity and risk management across the agency network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• Fast learner with strong MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with data interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Provide business development support for branches/region and collaborate with agency members and Sales Team for product enquiries, rapport building, training and engagement.
• Handle product and campaigns communication and strategy.
• Write product-related agency circulars.
• Analyze product sales and propose action plans to enhance productivity.
• Coordinate with Product Management, New Business, Customer Service and other stakeholders for launches.
• Organise product talks and develop marketing messages and flyers to promote product awareness for agency force.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field

Job description

As a Business Development Specialist who is expected to undertake projects and initiatives to drive high NBEV sales by way of engaging agency through product training, analysing product sales with recommended action plan to improve performance, demonstrating creativity in promoting product awareness to agency force and being proactive in executing and managing product strategy and communication.

• Provide business development support for assigned branches/region and work closely with the agency members and respective Sales Team in providing product enquiry support, rapport building with agency force, training and engagement initiatives.
• Handle products and campaigns communication and strategy.
• Write product-related agency circular.
• Analyse product sales response with recommended action plan to enhance productivity.
• Coordinate with Product Management, New Business, Customer Service Departments, and other stakeholders to ensure effective development of agency communication to ensure new products and campaigns launch in effective and efficient manner.
• Organise product talks, develop marketing message and flyer to promote product awareness for agency force to increase sales urgency.
• Take charge of assigned projects by determining support and ideas to increase agency productivity.
• Demonstrate initiatives to execute assigned projects with follow up and follow through, and contribute ideas to improve deliverables in a consistent manner.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats, and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlight any potential concerns/risks and proactively share best risk management practices.
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and take appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

We are looking for people with

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or any related field.
• Fast learner with good knowledge of Microsoft Office - Excel, PowerPoint and Words.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data.
• Ability to work independently and excellent in communication, public speaking and training skills.
• Demonstrate alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours.
• High level of integrity, take accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Take initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Who we are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.