BELIEVE IN BETTER
Do you believe in leading the way to a better, healthier, more sustainable future?
At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.
It's finding new ways to not only better people's lives, but to better the communities and environments we live in. As the largest listed company on the HKSE, we’ve been proudly making a difference for people and communities across Asia for over a century. And we build on this every day with our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030.
And to get there, we need leaders with the courage, clarity and humanity to inspire, guide and support their teams to thrive every day - in the work they do and the life they live. Our leaders always have and will play a vital part in our journey to help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives, build healthier societies and cultivate healthier environments that better everyone.
If this sounds like you, read on.
The opportunity:
- Step into a high-impact role where you’ll work closely with the Distribution Leadership Team to lead and deliver game-changing strategic initiatives.
- You’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation and success across Distribution Operations and Digital Distribution - playing a key role in shaping and powering AIA’s Digital Distribution Strategy!
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining the Digital Partner strategy to support identification, exploration, value opportunity, and engagement of key partners to achieve set KPIs.
- Lifting Direct-to-Customer core proposition offerings and creating compelling value proposition for the partner and their customer.
- Onboarding and end-to-end integration with the most appropriate technology and operating solution with select partners, achieving maximum efficiencies and scalability at speed.
- Overall responsibility for project and key strategic initiative delivery, working closely with the Project Sponsors and Business Owners to ensure on-going strategic alignment and delivery of business objectives.
- Coordinating change management activities to ensure successful implementation of key initiatives and projects.
- Working closely with Growth & Initiatives Specialists across all channels, as well as the Performance & Delivery Specialists, to ensure alignment, collaboration and consistency.
- Proactively seeking opportunities to improve, develop and enhance our offering to Advisors, Customers and Business Partners.
- Developing and maintaining a strong working knowledge of the external operating environment, including the economy, competitors, and digital.
- Leading and advising on all planning activities related to project and initiative outcomes.
- Maintaining relationships with Customer, Product, Pricing, Marketing and other relevant internal teams that support all channels, to ensure the highest level of service is delivered to channel activities.
- Compiling necessary reports and data, including presentations and statistics.
- Collating, analysing, and identifying sales anomalies within statistical data and information.
Ideally, you’ll bring:
- Passion, drive, enthusiasm, and professionalism.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional relationship management skills, with a proven track record of building strong connections at all levels, both internally and externally.
- Strong negotiation and influencing abilities, with a talent for collaborating to develop solutions that meet business needs.
- Solid understanding of project management principles.
- Knowledge of the financial services or insurance industry (preferred).
Why choose AIA?
At AIA, we believe in empowering every one of our people to find their 'better'. We do this by offering:
- Opportunities to grow within the business through internal mobility.
- Competitive employee benefits that include insurances, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme and an extra day of leave each quarter to recharge.
- Membership to AIA Vitality, our science-backed health and wellbeing programme that provides the guidance, tools, and rewards to get more out of life and start thriving. AIA Vitality partners include Airpoints™, Woolworths, MoleMap, endota, Les Mills, Samsung, Garmin and many more!
- A supportive and inclusive workplace
- Flexible working arrangements.
If you believe you can help guide us towards a better tomorrow, apply now!
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Our commitment to these values is unwavering and they are central to our mission. AIA NZ values diversity in the workforce. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional mental health needs, chronic health conditions and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles. If there's anything we may need to consider to support you with our recruitment process, please email nz.talentacquisition@aia.com.
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Job ad expires Friday 25th of April, close of business.
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