Senior Insurance Product Strategist

3 days ago

Old Toronto, Canada Sun Life Full time

Sun Life Retail Advice & Solutions (RA&S) is one of Canada's leading financial institutions, offering Canadians holistic advice and innovative solutions spanning insurance, health, and wealth through a continuum of 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.

Reporting Structure

The Director, Product Development will report directly to the AVP, Insurance Product & Strategy, and be accountable for driving new product innovations and enhancements to our retail insurance new business product portfolio. This role requires leadership skills 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

Product Strategy - 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.
Product Development - 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. Develop next-gen insurance concepts based on technology trends, market direction, competitor actions, and Sun Life's strengths and assets.
Client / Advisor Research - Leverage design-thinking best practices to build creative solutions through empathy-driven, human-centered design.

Requirements
  • A minimum of 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 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.
Education and Language Skills

A university degree, postgraduate studies in management would be considered an asset. Bilingualism (French and English) is required for Quebec due to frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

About Sun Life

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 list.

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