Head of Operations

We are partnering with a nation-leading financial aggregator platform to hire a capable Head of Operations as part of their core management team.

Role Description:

• As Head of Operations, you will be responsible for leading all operational aspects of their new digital life insurance platform, including overseeing new business application processing, policy issuance and servicing, and ensuring customer satisfaction throughout the policy lifecycle
• You will be at the forefront of driving operational process innovation to use technology in streamlining processes, leveraging heavily on automation and straight-through-processing to reduce manual efforts and turnaround time
• You will be part of senior management, reporting directly to the CEO.
• You will have the opportunity to hire and lead a dedicated team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high performance. Your leadership will be pivotal in establishing and maintaining operational standards and best practices

What are the top 4-5 areas this role will be responsible for?

What do you need?

What would put me ahead of the rest?

• Experience in digital aspects of insurance (e.g. digital transformation, digital operations improvement)
• Experience in special projects for automation / straight-through-processing within existing insurers

Key stakeholders – who are the individuals this role will interact with most?

• The core management team
• The CEO

Expected deliverables – what specific projects will this person work on right away?

• Establishing the operations department from the ground up with the necessary digital processes to be operational ready as a licensed digital insurer
• Establishing user requirements on operational related processes to support internal systems build, covering the policy admin system and customer portal
• Hiring the right team members to support operations functions as we go-live in a controlled environment in the coming months

Lookouts – what do you anticipate being the biggest challenge this role will face?

• To be comfortable with ambiguity and pivots that the business will undoubtedly face
• To establish all operational required SOPs and user requirements from scratch to support engineering team’s systems build.

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