Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aegon is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead major product initiatives related to annuities. This role involves designing and executing new products, ensuring compliance, and mentoring junior team members while collaborating with various functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead large product initiatives or enhancements
- Collaborate with Competitive Intelligence, Pricing, and other internal stakeholders to review industry trends, data
- Partner with functional areas to negotiate needs and facilitate product decisions
- Manage the development of product specs, guides, issue logs etc., and/or assist with gathering and documenting business requirements
- Drive strategic process improvements and automation efforts
- Lead and/or oversee discussions to define product features, competitiveness, milestone dates, etc. act as Product SME as needed
- Responsible for ongoing Product adherence to Regulatory and Compliance updates
- Mentor Junior team members
- Act as a liaison between business and technical teams
Skills
- Bachelor degree, or equivalent
- 5 Years experience in Financial Services/Insurance
- Expertise in at least one insurance/annuity product line and solid understanding of additional product lines
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be able to communicate with audiences of all levels and collaborate with functional areas
- Analytical and organizational skills and attention to detail
- In depth understanding of systems that support at least one insurance/annuity product line with impacts across multiple functional areas
- Ability to work independently
- Comfortable making independent decisions related to job function
- Leadership and stakeholder management
- Strategic planning and change management
- Industry specific expertise (finance, insurance, etc.)
- Experience managing a team
Benefits
- Hybrid environment
- Travel (Occasional <10%) - may travel for internal meetings
- Annual Bonus of 15% based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion
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