Senior Director, Product Innovation, Strategy & Technology

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Innovation, Strategy and Technology

• Conduct ongoing market research, competitive analysis and customer research to identify customer needs, emerging trends and new opportunities
• Support product innovation and product strategy bringing in a cross functional, customer-centric view, for various markets and an enterprise-wide view.
• Enable product roadmaps, prioritising between various objectives including strategic (e.g. increasing H&P mix, broadening customer reach) and tactical (near term delivery)
• Identify key emerging trends in Insurtech/ healthtech/ digital wealth platforms to propose strategic partnerships e.g. value-added services and enhance Prudential’s product propositions.
• Identify and propose innovation, including through the use of technology, in the Product function at LBUs.
• Assess current state on the product development life cycle and identify opportunities for a significant improvement to speed to market, reduction in the level of manual processes and improving control outcomes
• Work closely with the GCPO with the functional book of work, prioritisation of initiatives and to support delivery across the functional programme.

Team Leadership

• PruWay culture carrier who embodies and exhibits the PruWay values as we set up the new function.
• Lead and support the team build out, ensuring alignment with the target operating model.
• Work in close collaboration and in alignment with the markets.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Business or related fields.
• 15+ years of experience in life insurance including products, with a strong leadership track record across various product lines.
• Proven leadership experience in regional or multi-market roles.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking and communication skills. Deep understanding of market trends, customer needs, technology solutions and product development in the insurance sector and a passion for bringing innovative solutions to meet customer needs.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.