Aegon Life Insurance - Manager/Assistant Manager - Product Management - COO's Office

About Us:

AEGON Life Insurance Company Limited (ALIC) is focused on fulfilling its vision of creating tension-free lives. In pursuance of this goal, we provide a complete product suite, customized advice, and enhanced experience for all our customers.

AEGON Life was formed with the coming together of AEGON N.V., an international provider of life insurance, pensions and asset management, and Bennett Coleman and Company (BCCL), India's largest media conglomerate popularly known as the Times Group. This union brings together a local approach, with global expertise of launching products that cater to different sets of customers to meet their long-term financial goals.

Culture We Drive :

We recognize that our people are our strengths and the diverse Talents they bring to our workforce is directly linked to our Success. Everything we do as a firm, hinges on our ability to hire, empower and retain the Best People.

We embrace new ways of doing things. Our approach remains to be smart, quick on feet, stay nimble, innovate & focus on Customers.

AEGON is guided by four principles: Wow the Customer, Spread Awareness, and Think Ahead & Passion to Perform.

Role Details:

Department : Product Management - COO's Office

Level: M4

Role Summary:

The person would be primarily responsible to act as the Product SME for end-to-end system set up of new / existing products / schemes on the policy admin system and integration with digital partner platforms

Key Focus areas:

Own the Product SME responsibility for:

- End to end system set-up of retail / group products and propositions.

- Successfully collaborating with the business and partner teams to ensure integration of new / existing products / schemes on partner platforms with the focus on enabling digital unassisted processes and quick integrations

- Ensuring all products/ Schemes are developed in compliance to regulatory requirements & digital first approach.

- Requirements planning, elicitation, management and documentation, development and testing support and management for multiple projects.

- Test case review and artifact ratification with for defect free output.

- Proactively managing all product / scheme developments in sprints and ensuring product / schemes are launched on partner platform in agreed stipulated timelines.

- Monitoring and managing operational risk incidents within the squad

- Ensure that work done is within prescribed project implementation methodology and applicable process standards are followed.

- Coordinate and successfully drive testing team in creation of testing plan and testing closure in sync with the plan.

- Active participation in Daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review and retrospective meetings

- Sending Project Reports to relevant stakeholders during and after project completion.

Qualifications & Competencies:

- Minimum Graduates/PG with 3-4 years of experience as Product Manager for end to end system setup of life insurance products (Group/retail).

- Experience in Agile Methodologies and managing product integrations on partner platforms will be an additional advantage

- Analytical bend of mind coupled with focus on details

- Working knowledge of LI Products & Regulations

- Understanding of LI product digital onboarding journeys

- Outstanding capacity to handle multiple projects that adhere to stringent timelines

- Highly ambitious and result oriented with non-compromising work ethics

- Excellent inter-personal skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills with experience in working with senior leadership