Product Manager, Life Insurance

2 weeks ago


Waterloo, Canada Sun Life Full time

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

**Life Insurance Product Manager - 15 MONTH CONTRACT**

**Role Summary**:
A champion for Individual life Insurance products with an emphasis on growing sales and managing the new business product portfolio

This role has **three **main accountabilities that relate to management of the three product lines:
Accountable for Market Intelligence, including monitoring the competitive landscape, understanding market trends, and communicating competitive information to our leadership team. Accountable for Life cycle of product, including monitoring sales and profit, managing tasks related to the delivery of maintenance projects and supporting product development opportunities within the product lines. Accountable for being the Voice of the customer and advisor by identifying continuous improvement opportunities as well as defining and implementing solutions that show that we know our clients and we put them at the center of everything we do.

**What will you do?**
- Provide Tier 3 support for advisor, client, and administration inquiries regarding legacy products and the current product offering, thinking ‘outside the box’ to seek creative solutions within the terms of existing contracts or considering requests for exceptions.
- Support the Marketing team with advisor and client communications as well as with creating and updating marketing materials, presentations, knowledge documents and campaigns to support our distribution partners and help grow sales.
- Support product training activities related to onboarding of internal business partners as a well as advisors.
- Support the Associate Product Manager by handling referrals, completing peer reviews, providing on-the-go coaching and being the back up on the team’s Inbox management activities.
- Supports the Director of Life Insurance Product Management with product management initiatives of the in-force block of business and provide support of some aspects of product development initiatives.

**What do you need to succeed?**
- Proven abilities for research as well as data collection, manipulation and interpretation
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Comfort speaking in large meetings and presenting to groups of all sizes in person or over the phone
- Demonstrated self-management, initiative and time management skills
- Proven strong collaborator with demonstrated negotiation skills
- Ability to handle multiple high-priority tasks while at the same time maintaining a high standard of accuracy and professionalism
- Ability to confidently deliver difficult messages directly to advisors
- Skilled with Microsoft Excel and the use of pivot tables

**Preferred skills**
- Product management or product marketing experience
- Familiarity with the individual life Insurance solutions offered by Sun Life and their administration
- Experience with Third Party and/or CSF distribution partners
- Proficiency working with Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint and Tableau
- Previous experience with coaching and mentoring

**What's in it for you?**
- Working within a high performance culture.
- Supportive working environment, culture of collaboration.
- Talented and diverse workforce; opportunity to launch a rewarding career.
- A company that promotes health, wellness, and work/life balance.
- We encourage our employees to champion continuous improvement.
- Joining a reputable organization with over 150 years of history.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Salary Range**:
74,100/74 100 - 120,800/120 800

**Job Category**:
Product

**Posting End Date**:
16/02/2023


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