Head of Corporate Pensions Product, New Ireland Assurance

What is the opportunity?

Corporate Pensions is a strategic growth area for Bank of Ireland, with a clear ambition to shape the future of workplace retirement savings in Ireland. As Head of Pensions Product, you will play a pivotal leadership role in defining and delivering that ambition. You will lead the development and evolution of our corporate pensions products and propositions for New Ireland, part of the Bank of Ireland Group, ensuring our products remain innovative, customer focused, commercially successful and aligned with the changing needs of employers and members. You will influence the future direction of retirement solutions, respond to major market developments including pension reform and Auto Enrolment, and help position New Ireland as a leading provider in pension provision.

This is an opportunity to combine strategic leadership, product innovation and market insight to deliver better retirement outcomes for customers while driving sustainable growth for the business.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the strategic development and ongoing management of the Corporate Pensions product portfolio, including our Master Trust, ensuring products remain customer focused, commercially successful, competitive, compliant and aligned to business objectives
• Drive product innovation and market growth through customer insights, market analysis and industry developments
• Own the full product lifecycle including design, pricing, positioning, performance monitoring, regulatory oversight and ongoing enhancements
• Lead on the product commercials including ICAAP management, cost management, income generation and support on pricing.
• Build strong partnerships across the business and external providers, working closely with Operations, Technology, Compliance, Sales, Marketing, investment partners and third-party suppliers to deliver product initiatives.
• Lead and develop a high performing team of product specialists

What will make you stand out?

You bring extensive experience in Corporate Pensions, Workplace Savings and Employee Benefits, with a proven record of developing and managing pension products and propositions.

You possess deep knowledge of the pension landscape, including pension structures, pension investment solutions, legislation and regulation, IORPII requirements, product governance and commercial management.

You combine strategic thinking with strong commercial awareness and have successfully delivered product innovation, proposition development and business growth initiatives in a regulated financial services environment.

You can demonstrate the ability to lead, motivate and develop teams, creating an environment of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

Essential qualifications

A degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Economics, Actuarial Science or a related field is required for this role.

QFA qualification (desired).

More about the team

You will join a growing Product Management team within the Wealth and Insurance division, focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for customers and supporting the Group's long term strategy. The team works closely with colleagues across the organisation to design and deliver products that are sustainable, compliant and relevant in a changing market.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily in Dublin. Colleagues spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in person to support collaboration and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions.

Family can mean different things to different people. We offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy, along with working parent and carer supports.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us. We offer a substantial health insurance contribution, employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches. We also encourage and support colleagues to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance their career.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Leader
• Better together - Leader
• Be Decisive - Leader
• Take Ownership - Leader
• Manage Risk - Leader

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.