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At Franklin Templeton, we're advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that's both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world
We're currently looking for a qualified candidate to join our team as a
Product Strategy Manager
in Singapore or Hong Kong office.

The Regional Product Strategy team partners across the organization to deliver competitive investment solutions and compelling insights that meet our clients' investment needs. The team identifies market trends, opportunities and challenges, recommends product strategy, spearheads and develops new product solutions and pricing, enhance existing product suite for both asset retention and attraction of new flows, and offers product expertise combining investment and market insight.

The
Product Strategy Manager
will work to ensure that the organization excels in providing competitive and innovative product solutions that meet the changing needs of our investors by thorough research and product development efforts across retail, wealth and institutional channels. The role supports across Asia Pacific business channels in determining product gaps, researching and analyzing new and innovative product ideas, pricing strategies, product positioning and support regional product related initiatives in Asia Pacific.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of this position?

• Evaluate market, regulatory, competitors and investment trends to determine potential implications for Franklin Templeton product ranges. Identify and recommend product opportunities within the Asia Pacific and offshore markets, including new, innovative product ideas, changes to existing products, and potential products for merger/closure
• Conduct independent data analysis to identify forward looking trends to solve for evolving clients' investment needs in Asia
• Research market competitiveness and pricing for different investment solutions and client segments in the region
• Identify gaps within existing product range and develop innovative product proposals to capitalize on investment trends and changing client needs. Determine product attributes and key features, and establish competitive fee structure for new products
• Develop actionable strategy to introduce innovative product offerings across the firm's investment capabilities, drive client acquisition, retention and competitive positioning
• Develop product proposals and ascertain feedback to determine product attributes, key features (investment goal and strategy, positioning in the market, pricing, etc.) for both local domiciled and cross-border funds
• Develop and present business cases (recommend new product ideas, potential changes to existing products, including product mergers/ closures) to internal stakeholders and global product committee
• Lead and take accountability of product initiatives and drive to completion
• Support the Asia regional business by providing consultative and direct assistance to product-related inquiries
• Solicit feedback from distribution partners on the proposed product ideas and changes
• Prepare and participate in industry discussions and events.
• Develop and deliver presentations and training materials for internal and external audiences; articulate appropriate competitive positioning for new and existing products within local markets and sales channels
• Support the gathering and retention of assets under management by working closely with the investment teams and sales professionals across all distribution channels
• Assists in communicating information on product development lifecycle to internal stakeholders across business functions

What qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?

• Strong knowledge of distribution channel expertise and client segment knowledge, expertise across multiple channels (e.g. retail, wealth and institutional in Asia)
• 8 - 12 years of product initiation or development experience with a financial institution, consulting organization, pension fund, endowment or foundation
• Comprehensive understanding of Asia Pacific industry & regulatory developments, market and product trends
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Excel and other office products required
• Knowledge of data sources for performance, flows and relevant industry competitive information (Morningstar, Broadridge, Lipper, Bloomberg, MPI, eVestment)
• Self-driven with positive attitude and a team player
• Experience working with cross-functional and multi-channel team
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills. Written and verbal skills in Mandarin language has added advantage due to regional coverage
• CFA (or working toward completion) is preferred
• BA or BS in Finance or Economics desired

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Manager, Ecosystem Product Strategy & Operations

Would you like to play a key role in helping a global financial services company grow their business in Asia Pacific? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse FinTech organisation which is passionate about serving customers with omnichannel ways of accessing remittance services, building market profile and driving growth? Join Western Union as Manager, Product Strategy & Operations.

We are looking for candidates based in either Singapore, Beijing, China or Tokyo, Japan.

Western Union powers your pursuit.

This role exists to deliver on Western Union's 'ecosystem' strategy in Australia. This ecosystem strategy centers around launching new products beyond remittances, thereby meeting more of our customers' financial needs.

Australia is the priority market; however, the successful candidate may have the opportunity to work on programs for other markets in Asia Pacific, too.

Reporting to the Senior Manager- Digital and Ecosystem, Asia Pacific, this successful candidate will be required to manage and own all aspects of the program including facilitating design and build of new user experiences, defining business requirements, coordinating regulatory licensing and associated compliance programs, commercial relationships with suppliers, launch plans, internal management reporting, pricing and ongoing customer lifecycle management.

Role Responsibilities:

• Coordinate development of customer value propositions including pricing, operational servicing settings for new feature and functionalities
• Define and document product requirements, features, and functionality via ownership and development of JTBD, User Journeys, BRD/PRDs.
• Draft business requirements and workflows, prioritise roadmap features, author Epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with the regional team to ensure product features are delivered according to specifications.
• Supporting the negotiation with digital and ecosystem partners/suppliers including the execution of large, complex multi-year critical supplier relationship deals and ensuring that the deals make commercial sense for both suppliers and Western Union
• Supporting the initiation of streams of work with internal legal, compliance and regulatory teams to get license applications with regulatory bodies were required to offer a product.
• Initiate optimization work with operational teams and oversee the design of processes and systems to service the customer base on these new products.
• Project manages new build and feature initiatives within a multi-stakeholder team.
• Work closely with the entire compliance and risk management organisation to ensure the products have the correct compliance and risk management settings to operate within tolerances
• Find ways to solve problems through payments, compliance, legal, operational matters which arise from time to time.
• Develop substantive reporting to management on progress during build phase. Work with marketing to design customer acquisition strategies: initiate the production of go-to-market plans by marketing stakeholders.
• Assess opportunities by identifying ROI, define key performance indicators and partner with analytics team to measure success.
• Provide ongoing analysis on product effectiveness using a data driven approach.
• Identifying key problems through vigorous testing of mobile and web customer platforms for us to solve to improve the customer experience and comply with local regulation.
• Continuously implement and improve analytics infrastructure to track, monitor, optimise, innovate, and report on acquisition and conversion metrics.

Role Requirements:

• Must have at least 5 years' experience working with domestic and international payments. Experience can be gained through banks / financial services orgs, specialist payment companies, digital wallets or at domestic or international schemes.
• The role will require product launch experience, operations experience, card scheme, risk and compliance management in any of the areas of domestic payments, wallets, cards, micro-lending and / or foreign exchange.
• Advanced skills in identifying, negotiating and managing digital ecosystem partners in payments, cards, e-market places, KYC, cross border and infrastructure.
• Experience supporting the build and launch of consumer applications both on web and mobile platforms including mobile and product management will be regarded well.
• Strong business writing, numerical analysis, and communication skills especially in dealing with different vendors and stakeholders globally.
• Basic understanding of systems development, including types of integrations (e.g. APIs), workflows and good implementation and scalability practice will be regarded well.
• Experience developing basic wireframes and user journey flows.
• Demonstrated skills to manage product features and release roadmaps/ planning across multiple markets.
• Ability to work seamlessly with matrix teams, and juggle projects across multiple networks and platforms.
• Experience in FinTech's or financial services – working on digital wallets, transactional banking, payments, or remittances is a plus.

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what's next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world's most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We're a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations.

You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you're ready to help drive the future of financial services, it's time for Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few ). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your Western Union specific benefits include:

• Paid Time Offs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Global Recognition and Rewards Programs
• Employee Wellness

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

Estimated Job Posting End Date:

This application window is a good-faith estimate of the time that this posting will remain open. This posting will be promptly updated if the deadline is extended or the role is filled.

Responsibilities
Ideating, defining and driving the adoption of Gen AI capability to organisational priorities. Identifying use case to use compatibility and H/M/L complexity.

• Provide guidance to business leaders as to how to use Gen AI to address identified process frictions or improve key worker productivity to tangible and measurable value.
• Work with key users to assess solution fit to stated need and define improvement priorities to increase utility, relevance and value.
• Maintain a solutioning mindset to identify technical capability crossover to other use cases and use domain and market expertise to advise on buy versus build approaches so we determine what is best for the business.
• Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential AI partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.
• Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of projects.
• Develop effective and trusted relationships with the business.
• Be clear on the CDO-AI enablement team processes, checklists and approach to delivery
• Accuracy in reporting and tracking of business case value
• Accuracy in adoption uptake, user feedback collection and report back to AI product and tech team

Qualifications

• 8+ years of business engagement and solutioning discovery experience
• Track record in business solutioning, problem solving and multi-level stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with the ai landscape: external vendors, model types and use cases
• Work with senior business stakeholders and technology leads to map the transformative vision and signpost this to existing and near term in-house capabilities.
• Partner with business on build versus buy versus blend delivery approaches
• Work to drive ai literacy and develop a solutioning mindset with senior business leads to change how we think about solving business challenges with technology
• Internally consult, problem solve and steer a value based outcomes
• Must be an adept relationship builder and develop trusted and effective relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Experience in driving adoption and take up of new technology through working with users to collect and prioritise feedback for improvement and ensure good fit to function
• Education University Bachelor Degree
• Languages English

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business engagement experience
• Stakeholder management and relationship management
• AI and ML solutioning experience
• Client workshop and requirements gathering and feedback loop experience
• Entrepreneurial experience
• Knowledge of AI landscape

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter,
we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Job ID: 41756

Location: Central, HK

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 10 Oct 2025

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ideating, defining and driving the adoption of Gen AI capability to organisational priorities. Identifying use case to use compatibility and H/M/L complexity.

• Provide guidance to business leaders as to how to use Gen AI to address identified process frictions or improve key worker productivity to tangible and measurable value.
• Work with key users to assess solution fit to stated need and define improvement priorities to increase utility, relevance and value.
• Maintain a solutioning mindset to identify technical capability crossover to other use cases and use domain and market expertise to advise on buy versus build approaches so we determine what is best for the business.
• Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential AI partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.
• Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of projects.

• Develop effective and trusted relationships with the business.

• Be clear on the CDO-AI enablement team processes, checklists and approach to delivery

• Accuracy in reporting and tracking of business case value
• Accuracy in adoption uptake, user feedback collection and report back to AI product and tech team

Qualifications

• 8+ years of business engagement and solutioning discovery experience
• Track record in business solutioning, problem solving and multi-level stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with the ai landscape: external vendors, model types and use cases
• Work with senior business stakeholders and technology leads to map the transformative vision and signpost this to existing and near term in-house capabilities.
• Partner with business on build versus buy versus blend delivery approaches
• Work to drive ai literacy and develop a solutioning mindset with senior business leads to change how we think about solving business challenges with technology
• Internally consult, problem solve and steer a value based outcomes
• Must be an adept relationship builder and develop trusted and effective relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Experience in driving adoption and take up of new technology through working with users to collect and prioritise feedback for improvement and ensure good fit to function
• Education University Bachelor Degree
• Languages English

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business engagement experience
• Stakeholder management and relationship management
• AI and ML solutioning experience
• Client workshop and requirements gathering and feedback loop experience
• Entrepreneurial experience
• Knowledge of AI landscape

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

About Us
KPay Group (KPay) is a leading fintech company dedicated to empowering businesses of all sizes with simple, smart, seamless and secure technology solutions. Serving over 57,000 merchants across Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, KPay is unleashing merchants' growth potential by building a one-stop platform for financial management, business operations and digital transformation. KPay secures a record USD55 million in 2024, marking the largest series A fundraise globally in the payments sector of the year.

Job Duties

• Drive the product strategy, ideation and roadmap for the SaaS marketplace, with a focus on merchant-centric solutions.
• Deeply understand merchant needs, workflows, and pain points - particularly around POS and related operational tools.
• Identify and evaluate new partner integrations (e.g., accounting, POS, inventory management) to expand marketplace offerings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, sales, operations, marketing, partners) and external partners/vendors to deliver high-impact merchant solutions and services.
• Set key metrics and drive product performance, analyse market trends, collect user feedback, and iterate to optimise product-market fit.
• Act as the subject matter expert on merchant operations, ensuring the marketplace supports real-world workflows from the counter to the back office.
• Build strong relationships with external partners to support onboarding and ongoing marketplace success.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, Finance, Economics, or related); MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• Proven experience in product strategy, product management, or marketplace experience within SaaS, F&B tech, retail tech, or Fintech.
• Deep understanding of merchant operations from the front line to the back office, or hands-on experience with POS systems or SaaS products.
• Proven track record of shipping merchant-facing products or services with measurable business impact.
• Ability to manage relationships with vendors and partners.
• Demonstrated experience managing product P&L, setting KPIs, and driving financial performance.
• Strategic thinker with a data-driven approach to market adoption and growth.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a proactive, self-starter attitude.

About the role:

• 類目策略制定:依據東南亞各國市場的文化背景、供應鏈、市場,及實際銷售情況,制定務實的類目及品牌策略;
• 品牌建聯:依據類目策略招募、挖掘有出海潛力的中國國潮品牌,建立長期合作,並建立品牌的整體分級管理系統;
• 商品共創:結合東南亞市場趨勢與文化偏好,與品牌方共同發展「出海款」商品定位、SKU 結構、定價策略及行銷策略;
• 上市統籌:制定年度/季度上市波段計劃,協調設計、打樣、合規、物流各節點,確保新品如期上架,把控商品的展示形象;
• 生命週期管理:監控各通路進銷存與動銷數據,及時提出補貨、調撥或清貨方案,優化週轉效率;
• 成本優化:把控商品的採購、供應鏈、銷售、營銷、渠道各環節成本結構,協調各相關部門及服務商,持續優化各項成本,提升毛利水準;
• 跨品牌合作:規劃並落地潮玩×國畫、服飾×非遺等跨界聯名項目,從選購品、設計、打樣到上市推廣全流程主導;
• 市場回饋:定期收集海外消費者洞察與競品動態,反向推動品牌方快速迭代產品、升級包裝與賣點;
• 項目協同:配合渠道拓展及營運團隊,制作商品培訓總覽(賣點、陳列、話術),保障終端銷售效果。

You are the perfect one if you are/have:

• 本科及以上學歷,有品牌方商品企劃或品牌管理經驗;
• 深度了解國潮品牌生態,擁有豐富的品牌方資源與商務建聯成功案例;
• 熟悉東南亞市場及出口貿易流程,具備完整商品出海項目經驗者優先;
• 具備優秀的跨部門溝通與項目管理能力,英語可作為工作語言,能接受短期海外出差。

Recruit Ref: L

Posting Date:

China Duty Free International Limited

Buying Senior Manager/Product Strategy Senior Manager (Brand Export) 國潮品牌出海商品經理

About the role:

• 類目策略制定:依據東南亞各國市場的文化背景、供應鏈、市場,及實際銷售情況,制定務實的類目及品牌策略;
• 品牌建聯:依據類目策略招募、挖掘有出海潛力的中國國潮品牌,建立長期合作,並建立品牌的整體分級管理系統;
• 商品共創:結合東南亞市場趨勢與文化偏好,與品牌方共同發展「出海款」商品定位、SKU 結構、定價策略及行銷策略;
• 上市統籌:制定年度/季度上市波段計劃,協調設計、打樣、合規、物流各節點,確保新品如期上架,把控商品的展示形象;
• 生命週期管理:監控各通路進銷存與動銷數據,及時提出補貨、調撥或清貨方案,優化週轉效率;
• 成本優化:把控商品的採購、供應鏈、銷售、營銷、渠道各環節成本結構,協調各相關部門及服務商,持續優化各項成本,提升毛利水準;
• 跨品牌合作:規劃並落地潮玩×國畫、服飾×非遺等跨界聯名項目,從選購品、設計、打樣到上市推廣全流程主導;
• 市場回饋:定期收集海外消費者洞察與競品動態,反向推動品牌方快速迭代產品、升級包裝與賣點;
• 項目協同:配合渠道拓展及營運團隊,制作商品培訓總覽(賣點、陳列、話術),保障終端銷售效果。

You are the perfect one if you are/have:

• 本科及以上學歷,有品牌方商品企劃或品牌管理經驗;
• 深度了解國潮品牌生態,擁有豐富的品牌方資源與商務建聯成功案例;
• 熟悉東南亞市場及出口貿易流程,具備完整商品出海項目經驗者優先;
• 具備優秀的跨部門溝通與項目管理能力,英語可作為工作語言,能接受短期海外出差。

Industry:

Wholesale & Retail

Job Category / Function:

Marketing / Public Relations (Brand / Product Management)

Fresh Graduate (Marketing - Digital Marketing)

Job Position Level:

Senior

Employment Term:

Full Time

Min. Edu. Level Req:

-

Minimum QF Level attained:

-

Total Working Exp:

-

Salary(HKD):

-

Location:

Wanchai District / Wan Chai

Benefits:

-

At Principal, we invest in what matters. And building talented teams is where it all begins. We're drawn to people who bring unique perspectives, passion, and expertise to help us advance the financial security and well-being of our customers, transform our growing business, and drive positive change in the communities where we live and work.

When we invest in you, and you invest in us, great things happen.

Join Principal Financial Group for an outstanding chance to lead product strategy in North Asia. As Manager, Product Development, you'll guide product innovation and market analysis to meet client needs and regulatory trends.

What You'll Do

• Find opportunities for product innovation, including new product launches and improvements. Utilize market data, client insights, and competitive intelligence to pinpoint the best product opportunities for the company.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the market landscape, client needs, competitive dynamics, and regulatory trends across the wealth advisory and institutional segments.
• Share market and product insights with internal collaborators and partners to secure backing for local and cross-border product strategy and development priorities.
• Help craft compelling reasons for new products or improvements in collaboration with multiple teams.
• Foster strong strategic relationships with key internal collaborators and partners. Regularly communicate with regional distribution to ensure product development priorities align with market needs.
• Maintain a working knowledge of current products, investment teams, and capabilities. Ensure the company is deploying its most compelling investment capabilities within efficient wrappers and platforms to improve distribution reach.
• Embed yourself into the company's product development processes to maintain transparency and consistency across regional and local market strategies.
• Help develop, implement new products and improvements to current fund offerings, ensuring competitiveness, meeting client expectations, and staying in sync with regulations.
• Lead product development projects, ensuring tasks are completed on schedule with high quality. Track project progress and resolve issues arising from product workstreams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Legal, Compliance, Risk, Governance, and Operations, to assess and plan for operational impacts.
• Monitor the sustainability and adaptability of local registered products and drive product changes where necessary.
• Support collaborator communication by providing clear and timely updates on strategic product priorities. Assist in coordinating meetings and preparing materials for internal audiences.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field.
• At least 5 years demonstrated experience in product development or investment analysis roles.
• Proven experience in product development and strategy within the financial services industry, with SFC license holders preferred (Type 4 and 9).
• Strong understanding of market dynamics, different investment vehicle structures and financial products across Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Real Estate.
• Proven knowledge and ability to understand, interpret and deliver meaningful insights that provide clear data driven decision capabilities.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in both written and spoken English and Chinese.
• Conversant with Bloomberg and Excel, other financial/ investment tool experience welcome.
• Candidates with less experience will be considered as Analyst / Assistant Manager.

Why Join Us?

At Principal, we believe that investing in you is the key to our success. We offer an encouraging environment where your outstanding perspectives and expertise are valued. You'll have the opportunity to work with world-class professionals, drive innovation, and contribute to the financial security and well-being of our customers. Together, we can achieve great things

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.