Head of Data Analytics

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Job description (heading) / Description du poste (titre)

• Job purpose The Head of Data Analytics for Sun Life Philippines will:

   Own the overall strategy and implementation of the companies data analytics including Business Intelligence agenda

   Inject best practices from other financial services industries and adjacent industries to promote the companies data analytics maturity

   Accelerate organizational capability for data analytics including but not limited to people, process, platform and products

   Own the business impact and metrics of Data analytics

   Partner with regional Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics, shared services in PH and India to deliver data analytics portfolio commitment

   Partner with external organizations and data analytics organizations to lend support in Sun Life’s journey towards a data-driven culture

   Manage data analytics talents and cross-functional teams from Sales, Marketing and Operations to help them fulfill their data analytics-driven and analytic-enabled program aspirations

  The role reports to the Chief Transformation Management Officer, and will closely work with the Chief Business Transformation Officer and Chief Technology Officer.

Preferred skills (heading) / Compétences particulières (titre)

• Strong business background and appetite to understand clients, business demands and
• Deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, machine-learning approaches, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.
• Strong understanding of data analytics discipline from Financial services or adjacent industries
• Proficiency in platforms such as R, MATLAB, SAS, Python and some experience with BI tools such as Tableau and Microstrategy.
• Experience business-friendly data visualization tools

• Passion to really understand the business, about asking and answering the right questions to generate business insights and formulation of sound use cases, pilots and programs to drive business aspirations.

• Strong business communication and excellence in making complex concepts simple and easy to understand by the business.
• Desire for a creative, fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative environment

Qualifications (heading) / Compétences (titre)

• 10+ years’ experience of successfully working with analytics teams in variety of settings, including insurance and wider financial services.
• An advanced data science thinker, doer and expert who likes diving in to solve new problems and design/implement new platforms and solutions.
• Experience solving analytics problems using quantitative approaches and predictive modeling, with a marketing analytics focus.
• Experience with data mining, machine learning and predictive analysis
• A business and technical leader who brings the ability to develop solid professional relationships and become a productive member of a wider team
• Proven high-level strategic, creative-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to build teamwork and a healthy, respectful, yet driven culture
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships to influence change

Responsibilities (heading) / Responsabilités (titre)

• Head the Data Analytics Team to deliver sound client-centric and business-building data analytics program, process and platform

• Lead in understanding, translating business problems and transforming it into a strong and steady funnel of business-building use cases, pilots, campaigns and program

• Own the business impact and metrics of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence from incremental to transformational programs as agreed with the business

• Work with your Philippine IT, Regional Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics and Enterprise Services colleagues to produce enhanced data collection procedures to include processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis, as well as including additional information that is relevant for building analytic systems / models.

• Owns overall accountability of delivery of data analytics and business intelligence program for Sun Life Philippines

Job Category:

Advanced Analytics

Posting End Date:

30/08/2026