Traveling Director of Insurance Solutions

1 month ago

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Sun Life Full time
Product Development and Strategy Director

Sun Life Retail Advice & Solutions (RA&S) is a leading financial institution in Canada, offering Canadians holistic advice and innovative solutions for insurance, health, and wealth through digital-first hybrid advice, proprietary career, and independent sales channels.

Within RA&S, Insurance Solutions is responsible for designing and distributing leading-edge life and health insurance products to over 2 million individual retail clients across Canada.

The Director, Product Development and Strategy, will drive new product innovations and enhancements to our retail insurance new business product portfolio, reporting to the AVP, Insurance Product & Strategy.

The successful candidate will lead a high-performing team to execute on product initiatives spanning our life (term, participating whole life, UL, perm whole life) and health (critical illness, long-term care, personal health insurance) insurance portfolios.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and evolve the strategy for individual products on the new business insurance shelf, focusing on driving business growth, leading the industry through innovation, and improving Sun Life's market position.
  • Drive product development initiatives from concept to implementation, including client/advisor research, concept development and validation, business casing, oversight of build and go-to-market, and value realization.
  • Leverage and champion design-thinking best practices to build creative solutions through empathy-driven, human-centered design.
Requirements:
  • Minimum 5 years of related experience in the financial services industry, preferably in product management and/or strategy.
  • Highly developed leadership and influencing capabilities, ability to effectively manage relationships across the organization to deliver against objectives.
  • Proven balance of analytical and creative problem-solving skills, ability to focus on the critical business issues in a data-driven and fact-based manner.
  • Strong quantitative skills including data interpretation, model creation, and information visualization.
  • Strong presentation and written communication skills with a track record of working directly with senior leadership levels.
  • Experience with financial and product performance analysis.
  • Experience with client research methodologies including design thinking, survey design and execution, and focus-group facilitation.
Language Requirement:

As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

We're proud to be recognized as a company with a 2023 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work Canada.

Sun Life ranked one of the 2023 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World on the Corporate Knights' 2023.

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