Assistant Vice President - Partnerships Strategy & Solutions - Life Insurance
Description
About the Role:
The opportunity is with a leading life insurance company with a strong presence across bancassurance, strategic partnerships, and distribution.
Role & responsibilities:
The Assistant Vice President Partnerships Strategy & Solutions will support the development and execution of strategic initiatives across the Key Alliances ecosystem. The role will focus on business planning, partner performance management, strategic projects, analytics-driven decision support, growth opportunity identification, and cross-functional execution to strengthen partnership outcomes and drive sustainable business growth.
Strategic Planning & Business Growth:
- Conduct strategic assessments and recommend actions to enhance business productivity and market penetration.
- Business Analytics & Insights: Analyse partner performance, productivity, persistency, customer trends, and profitability metrics.
- Generate actionable insights through data analysis and benchmarking.
- Identify performance gaps and recommend corrective actions.
Project & Program Management:
- Lead cross-functional strategic projects from conceptualisation through implementation.
- Track project milestones, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.
- Drive process improvement and operating model enhancement initiatives.
- Ensure effective coordination between Sales, Product, Operations, Marketing, Technology, Finance, and Compliance teams.
Executive Decision Support:
- Prepare business cases, presentations, strategic notes, and management review materials.
- Support senior leadership with market intelligence, competitive analysis, and business recommendations.
- Present findings and strategic recommendations to leadership forums when required.
Preferred candidate profile:
- 8+ years of experience in senior roles within financial services, with strong exposure to life insurance, bancassurance/distribution and strategic partnerships.
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Business Administration or a related field; MBA preferred.
- Proven track record in managing strategic partnerships, business planning and driving growth.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, influencing and relationship-building skills.