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Transformation Lead (Operational Excellence), FI

Morgan McKinley Hong Kong
Posted 1 day ago In-Office Job Permanent Negotiable

Transformation Lead (Operational Excellence), FI

Job Responsibilities

Strategy & Target Operating Model (TOM) Design

  • Shape the operational transformation roadmap aligned with corporate growth, translating business challenges into well-scoped initiatives.
  • Design and implement Target Operating Models to optimize service quality, cost efficiency, and business resilience.
  • Build robust business cases for digital and process investments, securing budgets, and projecting quantifiable financial or operational returns.

Process Optimization & Operational Excellence

  • Drive continuous improvement programs utilizing methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile to systematically reduce waste and cycle times.
  • Review end-to-end workflows across insurance domains (claims notification to settlement, underwriting triage) to eliminate structural bottlenecks.
  • Establish operational frameworks, standardizing performance metrics (KPIs/SLAs) for turnaround times (TAT), productivity, and unit costs.

Digital Innovation & Automation Delivery

  • Identify opportunities for digitisation, straight-through processing (STP), and intelligent automation.
  • Partner with Insurtech and IT teams to scan the market, run pilots, and scale AI, machine learning, or automated workflow tools.
  • Lead solution blueprints from business requirement gathering through testing, deployment, and operational adoption.

Program Governance & Execution

  • Manage end-to-end project life cycles, maintaining tight control over multi-workstream budgets, resources, timelines, and interdependencies.
  • Mitigate operational risks and control designs, ensuring newly designed processes comply with strict insurance regulations.
  • Maintain rigorous governance structures, facilitating steering committees and providing transparent status dashboards to executive management.

Stakeholder Management & Change Adoption

  • Act as the bridge between operations run teams, technology divisions, risk departments, and executive leadership.
  • Drive change management strategies to guarantee smooth organizational adoption of new core systems and workflows.
  • Foster capability building through structured training, communication campaigns, and mentoring programs to embed a continuous improvement mindset within teams.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree holder from a globally recognized university
  • A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience gained from large financial institutions
  • Consulting experience is preferable
  • Excellent command of Cantonese and English
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