Product Management, Consultant

AIA (Vietnam) Life Insurance; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA is seeking a Product Owner/Manager to define, prioritize, and manage the product backlog to ensure delivery of business value. You will coordinate with technology, vendors, and business teams, influencing the product life cycle and ensuring alignment with processes and systems.

This role focuses on delivery management, backlog refinement, and ensuring the product supports business strategy and OKRs. Strong stakeholder engagement and people development are essential for success in a

Qualifications

• Experience as product owner/manager defining, prioritizing and managing product backlog.
• Strong ability to engage with multiple stakeholders (IT, vendors, business teams) across the delivery lifecycle.
• Ability to translate business requirements into functional solutions and maintain alignment with target OKRs.
• Proven organizational skills and capability to work in a complex environment with multi-tasking.

Responsibilities

• Lead workstream planning, financial and stability management of delivery programs.
• Prioritize backlog based on portfolio needs and changes.
• Translate business requirements into system solutions and manage resources for delivery.
• Provide clarifications and decisions on product direction to avoid delays.
• Refine backlog continuously based on feedback and changing needs.
• Support SIT, UAT, and ORT activities, including weekend support during peak periods.
• Attract and develop high-quality contributors and optimize resource planning.

Skills

Product ownership

Stakeholder engagement

Delivery management

Backlog management

Job description

Innovate and shape what comes next.

At AIA, your expertise, perspective and ideas can help us become a faster, simpler and more connected organisation while contributing to our Purpose of helping millions of people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. Across our diverse markets, you will take on real-world challenges, collaborate with talented colleagues and turn technology, data and bold ideas into simpler experiences, smarter solutions and positive outcomes for our customers and communities.

Join us to create what comes next, grow through new experiences and extend your impact across Asia.

About the Role

Person in position act as product owner/manager that define, prioritize, and manage the product backlog to ensure the successful delivery of business value.

He/She is responsible and accountable for the successful delivery of prioritized user stories and ensuring alignment with business processes and application systems which require he/she to manage, communication and influence the product life cycle & delivery with multiple stakeholders (within technology, third party vendors, group, business team).

Must have good organizational ability, be able to multi-task within a complex environment and have good people skills by having strong stakeholders engagement.

This position is important to support the portfolio of TECH deliveries to meet stakeholders' expectation.

40% - Product Management

• Responsible for workstream planning, financial management & stability management
• Prioritization based on Portfolio Backlog if changes or new requests arise
• Ensure business and functional requirements are translated to system solutions
• Manage, optimize, plan resourcing for product manager, Product Manager, software engineer to complete execution delivery

40% - Delivery Management

• Provide clarifications, answer questions and decision making regarding the product's direction to avoid delays and misalignment
• Continues to refine the Product Backlog, adding, amending or removing based on changing business needs and customer feedback
• Responsible for ensuring that the product successfully supports business strategy and portfolio OKRs
• Responsible to understand, challenge, and analyse user stories/requirements and translate them to functional requirements
• To act as the subject matter expert for business processes & IT solutions
• Interact, communicate with, and influence multiple stakeholders (IT, third party vendors, business team) throughout end-to-end solution delivery processes.
• Provide support throughout SIT, UAT, ORT to ensure testing is done in accordance to functional requirements, including weekend support during peak.

20% - People Development & Mgmt

• Attract and retain high quality individual contributors to build the strategic and operational capabilities and sustainable
• Developing the individual contributors and high performers through effective learning and development
• Driving right way for effective and quality processes mind set
• Manage and optimize resource planning and utilization to deliver maximum output to support business demands

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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