Director, Product Development and Innovation - Toronto, Canada - Sun Life

Sun Life

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

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.

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

Sun Life Retail Advice & Solutions (RA&S) is one of Canada's leading financial institutions that offers 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.

What you will do?
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Product Strategy - develop and evolve the strategy for individual products on the new business insurance shelf, with focus on driving business growth, leading the industry through innovation, and improving Sun Life's market position
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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
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Client / Advisor Research - leverage and champion design-thinking best practices to build creative solutions through empathy-driven, human-centered design. Lead the development and execute on of qualitative and quantitative research plans to bring forward the Voice of the Client and Voice of the Advisor to refine approach and proposed solutions
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Innovation & Pilots - develop next-gen insurance concepts based on technology trends, market direction, competitor actions and Sun Life's strengths and assets. Bring concepts to life by executing on pilots and scaling into national solutions
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High Performing Team - lead a team of Innovation Managers and build a diverse, empowered, best-in-class team through proactive career development and continuous feedback / coaching

What you need to succeed?

Minimum 5 years of related experience in the financial services industry, preferably in product management and/or strategy.

- 'Get stuff done' in a complex and challenging business environment

Highly developed leadership and influencing capabilities, ability to effectively manage relationships across the organization to deliver against objectives
Proven balance of analytical and creative problemsolving skills, ability to focus on the critical business issues in a datadriven and factbased manner
Strong quantitative skills including data interpretation, model creation, and information visualization
Strong presentation and written communication skills with track record of working directly with senior leadership levels
Track record of developing and launching new solutions, with experience leading the design and/or delivery of solutions
Experience with financial and product performance analysis. A good understanding of the Canadian retail insurance landscape.
Experience with client research methodologies including design thinking, survey design and execution, and focusgroup facilitation.
Ability to lead and develop a high performing team.
A university degree, post graduate studies in management would be considered an asset.

What's in it for you?

A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
An environment of continuous learning and improvement
Supportive working environment, culture of collaboration, high performance teams
We're committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment. Our goal is to make sure all our employees have the chance to live up to their full potential
Our unique Sabbatical Program gives you the opportunity to take up to 6 weeks off, every five years.
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

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work.

Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

105,000/ ,000/175 000

Job Category:

Product

Posting End Date:

20/05/2024