The Senior Executive/ Executive, Product Development will be overall responsible to manage the design, development and governance of the company insurance product, ensuring local market expectations and regulations are understood; develop and promote the new and existing products to ensure its remain competitive and sustainable.
Responsibilities:
- Product Research and Development
- Support company strategy on product perspective.
- Lead and conduct the market research/ Google, market analysis, development and delivery of new product ideas and improvement to existing products resulting from specific briefs.
- Draw up schedule of product and ensure implementation of the agreed product strategy and product plan to enhance the productivity and activity to achieve business target.
- Identify new market opportunities and local market regulation changes.
- Investigate, assess and make recommendations on the feasibility of new products, ensuring local market regulations and market attractiveness are fully assessed and considered.
- Create, review and deliver product briefs and presentation materials both internally and externally as required.
- Collect the market information and perform the analysis to evaluate competitiveness position.
- Act as product owner to drive the product initiatives to achieve the expected business target.
- Actively participate in other product initiatives and coordinates with other marketing department to develop the product position and marketing plan for that product initiative.
- Participate in distributor and customer focus group to generate product ideas and collect feedback.
- Work closely with internal department to generate effective sales idea, marketing materials, sales presentation materials, sales tools etc.
- Work closely with internal department such as underwriting, product owner etc. to design marketing plan, to effectively introduce our product to company as well as our target corporate clients.
- Talk to agents to evaluate feedback.
- Manage Product cycle and performance tracking.
- Propose product to remove.
- Manage and lead and develop the team members
2. New Business Pricing
- Liaise with Actuarial Pricing team for new business pricing quotes and risk evaluation activities
- Manage all new business underwriting activities at working level
- Centrally track and monitor progress of all new business pricing projects
- Actively engage with all internal and external stakeholders in technical discussions
- Preparing and presenting reports and analyses on new business activities to management on a periodic basis or as required
- Working effectively with local actuarial teams and present findings
- Assist in managing any Product Review leading the implementation of Product Review changes.
- Assist in managing commercial reviews for new products and Product Suitability Reviews on legacy products and giving recommendations.
- Assist in managing the production and delivery of reinsurance documentation.
- Proposition development
- Identify opportunities to grow profitable business.
- Adhere to the approvals process for any propositions.
3. Relationship Management
- Actively manage relationships within the teams and partners.
4. Team Collaboration and Management
- Participate in the streamlining and optimizing of underwriting processes.
- Collaboration of best practices and support all technical activities to drive premium growth and profit
Requirement:
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- Minimum 1-2 years working experience in the relevant field
- Good interpersonal and management skill
- Creativity and innovative thinking on marketing idea
- Problem solving and decision making skills
- Effective project management skill
- Good business acumen and is customer oriented
- Hands-on insurance product development experience strongly preferred
- Excellent communication, writing, presentation and influencing skills
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skill