Assistant Vice President - Strategic Business Development

Great Eastern Life; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic professional to join their team as a Manager in Strategic Business Development. This role involves providing essential business development support, engaging with agency members, and crafting effective communication strategies for product launches. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and interpersonal skills, be proficient in Microsoft Office, and have a keen business sense. Join a company that values integrity, initiative, and involvement, and be part of a team that is committed to making life great for customers while embracing sustainability and innovation.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Microsoft Office with strong public speaking skills.
• Demonstrates leadership and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide business development support and coordinate with various departments.
• Organize product talks and develop marketing messages to increase sales.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Public Speaking

Leadership Skills

Problem-Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Business Sense

Product Knowledge

Job description

Job Description - Assistant Vice President - Strategic Business Development (230001V6)

Job Number:

230001V6

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurers for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Manager, Strategic Business Development.

The Role:

• Provide business development support for the assigned region by working closely with the agency members and respective Sales Team.
• Provide product briefing through regular agency engagement and rapport building with producers and targeted agency.
• Handle products and campaigns communication and strategy.
• Write product-related agency circulars.
• Study and analyze product sales response.
• Coordinate with Product Management, New Business, Customer Service Departments, and other stakeholders to ensure effective development of agency communication for new product launch and product campaign.
• Organize product talks, develop marketing messages, and flyers to promote product awareness and increase agency sales urgency.
• Take charge of the assigned product line and contest project by determining support and strategy to increase agency productivity.
• Prepare monthly management (SMT) reports and sales monitoring.
• Study and analyze product sales response to monitor sales momentum by product line.
• Provide product sales updates for SMT report.
• Demonstrate initiatives to follow up and follow through, and contribute ideas to improve deliverables.
• As part of the leadership team, work with key stakeholders to proactively shape the organization’s culture and conduct environment that is aligned with the organization’s Core Values.
• Champion culture and conduct behavioral expectations within the Department/Division.
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and take appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• 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.
• Other responsibilities as entailed.

The Person:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office – PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Possess public speaking and training skills.
• Leadership, problem-solving, interpersonal skills, business sense, and product knowledge.
• Demonstrates alignment with the organization’s core values through expected behaviors.
• Willing to travel.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability for work, and has a good attitude towards teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve the current state of things and is adaptable to embrace new changes.

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviors associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviors, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations plays a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better, and longer; and driving responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.