Assistant Manager, Business Development - East Coast Region (GETB)

Take charge of and provide assistance with the business activities for family agency. Primary responsibility consists of business expansion, agency management & engagement, recruitment, training and all agency related activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, analyze, and review agents’ performance in the takaful business to ensure they are on track to meet their annual objectives.

• Provide guidance to agents regarding their performance and implement necessary corrective measures.

• Facilitate training and motivate agents through seminars, meetings and workshops.

• Organize, manage and facilitate specialized courses, seminars, meetings, and training sessions for agents.

• Generate periodic performance report and monitoring tools

• Assist in agency recruitment, training & agency development of new takaful agents.

• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and safeguard the company better.

• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

• Possesses degree in any discipline.

• Minimum of 2 years of working experience (preferable in financial service industry)

• Good communication skills, negotiation skill and convincing power

• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with competency in facilitation and business writing.

• Ability to work independently, willingness to travel and minimal supervision.

• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

• Take initiative to improve current state of things and adapt to embrace new changes.

• Comfort in taking responsibility and being held accountable for delivering results.

• Visualize and communicate findings and reasons/root causes to various stakeholders in logical manner.

• Meticulous, systematic and bale to work well independently and as a team.

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia. Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.