Director, Product Development

5 days ago

London, Ontario, Canada Canada Life Full time

Job Summary:

The Director, Product Development is a key leadership role responsible for planning and leading investment fund product development elements across business and product lines with a focus on Canada Life's product shelf. This role requires a strategic thinker and business acumen with the ability to critically evaluate and assess feasibility of all ideas, including new and innovative ones.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ideate, validate, develop and present business cases to support and execute on product lifecycle activities in a collaborative, cross-organizational manner, delivering a competitive and relevant investment fund product shelf.
  • Successfully connect ideas to evolve strategic direction of the wealth business with a focus on the lines of business and may cover a wide range of topics, business challenges or investor needs.
  • Develop and maintain market insights around investor needs, domestic and global trends through primary and secondary means, including structured and unstructured interaction with the various distribution teams, industry contacts and publications.
  • Develop and maintain financial models upon which to analyze and evaluate the viability and profit potential of new product ideas and initiatives, incorporating input and obtaining concurrence from multiple stakeholders such as finance, distribution and senior executive.
  • Lead implementation projects on a cross-functional basis, taking project management lead whenever dedicated PM resources are not available.
  • Support or take a lead role on key initiatives including fund management initiatives, and broader organizational initiatives that have an investment product element.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of combined Investment Fund Product Development, Institutional Investment and Wealth Solutions experience.
  • University degree, preferably MBA or Master of Finance, or equivalent.
  • Strategic thinker and business acumen with the ability to critically evaluate and assess feasibility of all ideas, including new and innovative ones.
  • Investment Fund Product Development expertise to secure development and execution of the business plan and strategy and to ensure we are positioned to help the organization grow in the Investment Fund space through strong product development and offerings.
  • Results-driven with an ability to track, aggregate and internalize a broad range of information and insights, from both primary and secondary sources, to determine investor needs, advisor or intermediary trends, industry trends and flows, and areas where we need to create or improve offerings.
  • Ability to understand and successfully navigate the mechanics of a large matrixed organization.
  • Proven ability to build strong business relationships on all levels and empower teams.
  • Strong coaching and people management skills in either formal or informal capacity.
  • Capable of prioritizing competing priorities to achieve results.
  • Possesses a high degree of financial, analytic and problem-solving skills.
  • CFA, CIM, CAIA are assets.
  • Strong proficiency with the MS Office suite. Proven experience with various industry-related applications including Morningstar Direct/AWS, Salesforce, Bloomberg are an asset.

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