- Expanding International Insurance Group
- Business & Enterprise-wide Transformation
- Exposure to Distribution Initiatives in Agency and Bancassurance
Our client is a leading international Insurance Group offering a diverse range of services across Life Insurance, Pension, Wealth Management and Asset Management. With an expanding presence in Asia and strong growth in business activities, the company is now seeking a high-calibre Business Transformation Lead to join the Transformation CoE function in Hong Kong.
The key responsibilities for this position are as follows:
- Senior member of the Business Transformation CoE function supporting business, distribution and firm-wide transformations initiatives
- Strong focus on Distribution Transformation initiatives and projects across Bancassurance, Partnerships and / or Agency
- Engage with local markets and business units on ideas generation, identify systemic impediments and innovation opportunities
- Deep-dive on business process analysis, financial analysis and performance analysis to identify areas of improvement and transformation opportunities
- Design project structures, set up approach, project teams, identify resources and priorities to enable the local markets or business units to deliver and execute the transformation initiatives
- Provide oversight on a portfolio of key transformation initiatives across one or more business pillars from initiation and pre-execution stage, establishing the project team, resource identification, coaching project teams from planning to kick-start the project implementation & delivery
- Liaise with business units and local country project teams on project status, ensuring adherence on execution and governance framework
- Monitor project financials and programs progress, alert of issues identified and facilitate mitigation solutions
- Recommend transformation and change initiatives, forecast upcoming demands, provide project financial analysis and planning, transfer ideas between countries / markets, articulate ideas into execution priorities and action plans
Successful applicants will have the following skills and experience:
- An university degree, ideally with project management certification
- Minimum 12 years of relevant experience in Business Transformation, Distribution Transformation, Business Strategy, Management Consulting, Project Management and / or PMO
- Industries experience from sizeable international Insurance firms would be preferred, other industries such as Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Private Banking and / or Asset Management
- Some exposure to Distribution initiatives would be beneficial
- Prior experience in management consulting / strategy consulting firms focusing on Financial Services sector would be advantageous
- Experience in driving, program managing and executing large-scale cross-functional and cross-locations transformation and change management programs with ability to run multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong financial analysis skills
- Flexibility to travel occasionally
- Excellent communication skills with fluency in English ideally with Cantonese and / or Mandarin
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