Insurance Manager at Optimal Growth Technologies

Insurance Manager

• Your role will be to provide strategic leadership, industry expertise and portfolio management to create insurance products in a telecommunication environment.
• You will develop, coordinate, and implement roadmap for bringing innovative and efficient insurance solutions and will provide highly specialized expertise working with markets.
• In addition, you will manage and coordinate key stakeholders to define the regulatory requirements, product capabilities, roadmap, and Go-To-Market needed for the insurance products to be deliver with a differentiated customer experience.
• You will also be required to engage technology providers and third-party experts to inform the strategy and roadmaps to meet/exceed the objectives and desired results.
• You will bring a wealth of insurance experience to enhance the creation and development cutting-edge insurance products.
• This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between telco capabilities and the insurance opportunities that exist.

Champion Insurance Management Product Strategy & Execution:

• Own the vision for the insurance portfolio
• Build business cases for different insurance products.
• Drive the Insurance roadmap incorporating industry and customer research to create transformative product offerings.
• Be a customer advocate; ensure the voice of customers across different segments is central to new product development.
• Evaluate different vendor capabilities and help specify product design features.
• Rally product creation colleagues to drive timely results developers, business analysts, architects, delivery managers, operations support, etc.

Spearhead Partnerships to Drive Innovation:

• Define partnership strategy for Insurance solutions including with tech providers, brokers, insurance , consumer education advocates, and internal stakeholders .
• Drive business development with relevant 3rd parties, negotiate key commercial and product terms and support legal on contracting
• Build "trusted advisor" relationship with business leaders
• Offer strategic support on the Insurance strategy, negotiations and business case
• Co-develop launch and go to market plans with local product managers to drive uptake and engagement
• Drive commercial prioritisation of the product roadmaps balancing requirements from multiple markets and building consensus where needed to address risk of fragmentation from local partnerships
• Act as a key resource to socialise & educate internal stakeholders about insurance through webinars, demos and onsite visits as needed

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• 4 years of professional experience with experience at an insurance product development in banking bank, telco or other relevant digital business
• Strong knowledge of mobile money, fintech and financial services
• Understanding of regulatory environment and future direction of regulation
• Analytical bent of mind, structured thinker with strong business acumen
• Results-driven self-starter
• Solid influencing and negotiation skills

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required, a Masters degree in a related field preferred
• Willingness to travel frequently