Associate Director, Product Management

Apply locations Kuala Lumpur, MY-AIA Malaysia time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id JR-53855

At AIA weve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.

As pioneering innovators for over 100 years, were now transforming our organisation to be faster, simpler and more connected. Because we want to be even better equipped to develop digital solutions and experiences that help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

To get there, we need people with tech/digital/analytics expertise and passion to help develop positive, sustainable change through digitally enhanced experiences that will impact the lives of millions of people and create a healthier future for everyone.

If you believe in developing a better tomorrow, read on.

About the Role

You are responsible and accountable for one or more IT product solutions that support and influence business objectives and goals for the business stakeholders within AIA. This requires you to manage, communicate, and influence the product life cycle & delivery with multiple stakeholders (IT, third party vendors, business senior leadership team) while aligning to overall company objectives. Must have good organizational ability, be able to multi-task within a complex environment and have good people skills.

Product Management

• Manage and assure success of the products to support business strategy, which includes planning our the IT product roadmap in line with overall business strategies with the aim of releasing high quality and innovative products, features, and enhancements.
• Manage, engage and communicate cross-functional teams (IT and business) regarding the entire product delivery lifecycle to meet business directions and objectives. Be able to drive project management of your product if needed.
• Manage, engage and influence prioritization of demand with business stakeholders aligning to the software engineering team.
• Overall responsible for end-to-end system execution implementation.
• Create detailed product specifications (i.e., UI/UX, FSD, etc.) in line with business needs in consultation with other IT stakeholders (local or third party vendor) in order to guide and prioritize the efforts of the delivery.
• Manage end-to-end testing regarding managing users, feedback, and delivery; and performing functionality testing.
• Assist on business cases relevant to your product scope with awareness of financial implications of potential projects.
• Track and measure the success of your product launches including post-launch evaluations.

Stakeholder Management

• Manage, optimize and prioritize business demands in relation to business value generation and resource capacity with all business unit heads.
• Manage, negotiate and influence relationships with the senior leadership team and managers (inter and intra divisional) to deliver credible and consistent solution services.
• Manage, negotiate and influence vendor, business partner, and GroupIT relationships to provide delivery flexibility.

Strategic Planning

• Formulate and determine the long and mid-term strategic plan of the unit aligning to IT and business strategic priorities and objectives for responsible portfolio(s).
• Identify and develop strong leadership and individual contributors to build a high performing team to maximize delivery to support business demands.
• Lead and influence the culture and governance on cost-efficient, agile and flexible delivery of IT solutions.
• Formulate policies, procedures, standards and best practices to drive center of excellence for IT solutions.

People Development & Management

• Lead, attract and retain high-quality individual contributors to build the strategic and operational capabilities sustainably by setting clear direction, goals and engaging staff to translate these into personal actions.
• Develop the leaders and high performers through effective learning and development.
• Drive the right way for effective and quality processes mindset.
• Manage and optimize resource planning and utilization to deliver maximum output to support business demands.
• Coach and mentor the team to acquire the technical and soft skills to execute their jobs.
• Engage team performance and individual development plan in alignment with the IT strategic plan.

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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If you believe in developing a better tomorrow, wed love to hear from you.

Information :

• Company : AIA
• Position : Associate Director, Product Management
• Location : Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
• Country : MY