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The Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) is a core member of the Wealth & Bermuda Executive Leadership Team. The role is accountable for shaping, translating, and executing enterprise strategy in a highly regulated, capital-intensive, and internationally connected environment.Role PurposeThe CSO serves as the CEO’s primary strategic partner and transformation orchestrator, ensuring that long-term strategic ambition is converted into near-term execution and sustainable value creation.
The role integrates strategy across capital, risk, technology, distribution, and operating model dimensions, while maintaining alignment with Group strategy and shareholder expectations.
This position is particularly critical given the complexity of High Net Worth (HNW) client economics and Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance operating models.
Key Accountabilities- Partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to define and continuously refine the Wealth strategy.
- Translate strategic priorities into executable transformation roadmaps with clear ownership, milestones, and outcomes.
- Own the strategic initiative portfolio, including prioritisation, governance, value tracking, and benefits realisation.
- Ensure strategic decisions are capital-efficient, regulator-ready, and operationally feasible.
- Provide structured, data-driven insights to support Executive Committee and Board-level decision making.
The CSO is responsible for shaping and executing strategies tailored to Wealth business models.
This includes close partnership with Finance, Risk, Actuarial, and Legal functions at Group & LBU level to balance growth, capital efficiency, and regulatory expectations.
- HNW and UHNW client propositions and economics
- Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance structures
- Capital optimisation, reinsurance, and risk transfer strategies
- International distribution and advisor-led business models
- Bermuda regulatory, governance, and tax considerations
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, Group stakeholders, and Board members.
- Influence effectively across a matrixed organisation with multiple functional and geographic stakeholders.
- Build strong partnerships with Technology, Finance, Risk, Distribution, Product, and HR leaders.
- Drive alignment, pace, and accountability across complex change initiatives.
- Clarity and coherence of enterprise strategy
- Delivery of strategic initiatives on time and on value
- Measurable improvements in growth, capital efficiency, and operating effectiveness
- Strength of leadership alignment and execution discipline across the organisation
The successful candidate will bring deep experience in strategy and transformation within insurance, reinsurance, wealth, or other capital-intensive financial services environments.
They will combine strong strategic thinking with hands-on execution capability and credibility at CEO and Board level.
- Senior leadership experience in enterprise strategy
- Track record of delivering change in regulated, complex environments
- Experience working closely with CEOs, Executive Committees, and Boards
- Strong understanding of HNW / UHNW business models and/or Bermuda-based insurance structures
- Excellent commercial, financial, and strategic acumen
- Strategic, commercially minded, and outcome-focused
- Comfortable operating under ambiguity and complexity
- Highly credible and influential with senior stakeholders
- Resilient, adaptable, and change-oriented
- Collaborative leadership style with strong enterprise mindset
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.
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In Asia and Africa, Prudential has been providing familiar, trusted financial security to people for 100 years. Today, headquartered in Hong Kong and London, we are ranked top three in 12 Asian markets with 18 million customers, around 68,000 average monthly active agents and access to over 27,000 bank branches in the region. Prudential is focused on opportunities in the most exciting growth markets in Asia and Africa. With access to over 4 billion people in both these regions, we are investing in broadening our presence and building our leadership in the life and asset management markets. We are committed to making a positive impact on our customers, our employees and our communities by delivering the best savings, health and protection solutions to people so they can get the most out of life. Visit our websites for more information Prudential plc: https://www.prudentialplc.com/ Prudence Foundation: https://www.prudentialplc.com/en/prudence-foundation
