Director, Insurance Product Innovation, Strategy, Technology

Morgan McKinley; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm is seeking an experienced professional to conduct market research and support product strategy. The ideal candidate should have over 15 years of experience in life insurance with proven leadership across multi-market roles. Responsibilities include identifying emerging trends and proposing innovations to enhance product offerings. This role is located in Singapore and offers the chance to influence product development across healthtech and insurtech sectors.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in life insurance including various product lines.
• Proven leadership experience across multiple markets.
• Strong analytical skills in identifying customer needs and emerging trends.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ongoing market research and competitive analysis.
• Support product innovation and strategy in various markets.
• Identify key trends in Insurtech and propose strategic partnerships.
• Identify emerging trends in Insurtech/Healthtech to propose partnerships.
• Propose innovations in the product function using technology.
• Assess the product development life cycle for improvement opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Market Research

Product Strategy

Innovation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Economics or Finance

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct ongoing market research, competitive analysis and customer research to identify customer needs, emerging trends and new opportunities
• Support product innovation and product strategy bringing in a cross functional, customer-centric view, for various markets and an enterprise-wide view.
• Enable product roadmaps, prioritising between various objectives including strategic (e.g. increasing H&P mix, broadening customer reach) and tactical (near term delivery)
• Identify key emerging trends in Insurtech/ healthtech/ digital wealth platforms to propose strategic partnerships e.g. value-added services and enhance the firm's product propositions.
• Identify and propose innovation, including through the use of technology, in the Product function at LBUs.
• Assess current state on the product development life cycle and identify opportunities for a significant improvement to speed to market, reduction in the level of manual processes and improving control outcomes

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Business or related fields.
• 15+ years of experience in life insurance including products, with a strong leadership track record across various product lines.
• Proven leadership experience in regional or multi-market roles.

Please reach out to Jerry Lim at [phone] or [e-mail] for a confidential discussion.

Only shortlisted candidates will be responded to, therefore if you do not receive a response within 14 days please accept this as notification that you have not been shortlisted.

Jerry Lim

Morgan McKinley

EA Licence No : 11C5502

Registration No : R1872371