The Senior Manager, Client Relations is a senior, front‑line leadership role accountable for client relationship management, service quality, and customer outcomes across Hong Kong Retirement (MPF and related retirement solutions).
This role acts as a key client interface for corporate employers, intermediaries, and internal stakeholders, while also playing a strategic role in uplifting service efficiency, member engagement, and client retention outcomes. The incumbent translates customer insights into actionable service improvements, ensuring delivery excellence in a fast‑evolving retirement landscape.
Position Responsibilities:
- Serve as a senior client relationship & stakeholder management owner for key employer clients, intermediaries, and strategic partners within Hong Kong Retirement
- Lead high‑impact client discussions on service delivery, member experience, scheme strategic relationship building, and engagement initiatives
- Proactively identify gaps for situations, manage service recovery plans, and drive retention strategies
- Represent the business in complex or sensitive client issues, ensuring balanced outcomes across client needs, business outcomes and operational practicality
- Drive continuous improvement of service efficiency, effectiveness, and penetration across client relations and member servicing touchpoints
- Evaluate end‑to‑end service journeys, identifying gaps, bottlenecks, and opportunities for uplift
- Champion a customer‑centric culture, ensuring client and member perspectives are embedded in service design and execution
- Partner closely with stakeholders, operations, outreach, and support teams to resolve systemic issues impacting client experience
- Implement the member education programs, employer briefings, and engagement campaigns
- Provide strategic recommendations to enhance member understanding, participation, and confidence in retirement planning.
- Act as a senior partner to internal stakeholders, ensuring service initiatives are business‑relevant, practical, and implementation‑ready
- Provide guidance and coaching to client relations and servicing teams to uplift capability and frontline effectiveness
Required Qualifications:
- University degree with extensive industry knowledge in retirement or pension management preferably with 6 -10 years of relevant experience, with strong exposure to client relations, servicing, or business leadership roles within MPF, insurance, financial institutions, or trustee environments
- Proven experience in front‑line client management, complex issue resolution, and senior stakeholder engagement
- Strong service mindset with the ability to balance customer advocacy and commercial discipline
- Excellent interpersonal skills, communications skills with proficiency in written English, Chinese, spoken English, Cantonese, and Mandarin with advantages
When you join our team:
- We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
- We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
- As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
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