Assistant Vice President - Product Development & Delivery

This role reports to the Product Development & Delivery Section Head and acts as a liaison between business users and IT to ensure successful delivery of product, fund, marketing initiatives to achieve business outcomes and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of new product launch, business initiatives and projects within the specified timeline.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to extract, analyze and validate business requirements (including Day 2 functionality).
• Assess and highlight business implications resulting from changes in requirements or process rules, application enhancement and recommend workable options that addresses business needs.
• Schedule and facilitate requirement clarification sessions between Business and IT stakeholders; and seek alignment on the requirement expectation and outcome.
• Perform business requirements prioritization and follow through the delivery of the prioritized requirements to ensure the product can be successfully delivered with minimal risk exposure to the business operations
• Responsible for maintaining up-to-date documentation which is specific and necessary for the targeted product launch or product related initiatives.
• Lead retrospective discussions and contribute to the development of improvements plan on identified products or funds.
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices
• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Business, Insurance, IT or related disciplines.
• Have at least 8 years in insurance domain, preferably with a background as a Business Analyst or exposure to insurance operations.
• Strong analytical and facilitation skills, with ability to engage diverse stakeholders to ensure alignment between business goals and technical delivery.
• Creative, good judgement and excellent attention to details
• Well organised, with positive can-do attitude and ability to meet deadlines effectively.