Business Head: Embedded Solutions

Position: Business Head: Embedded Solutions
Location Delhi NCR

Search Context
Over 400m informal sector workers in India, including farmers, self-employed women,
small retailers, domestic help, gig workers, employees of micro-enterprises and daily-wage
earners are not eligible for pension or other social protection benefits. Without an urgent
and effective response to pension exclusion, they face the grim prospect of extreme
poverty for over 20 years once they are too old to work.
pinBox is the only global pensionTech committed exclusively to mass-scale digital micropension inclusion among self-employed women and youth. We deploy our white-labelled,
API-enabled pension administration and delivery platform, our unique deployment model
and a simple and intuitive UI/UX to make access to regulated pension, savings and
insurance products easy and simple for non-salaried informal sector workers. We're
working actively with governments, regulators, multilateral aid agencies and leading
financial inclusion stakeholders in Asia and Africa. The pinBox model is already operating
in Rwanda, Kenya and India. We will expand to Bangladesh, Uganda, Chile, Indonesia and
Nigeria by 2023.
Governments and pension regulators use the our pensionTech to jumpstart digital micropension and insurance inclusion among informal sector workers. Pension funds and
insurers use our pensionTech to build a mass market for their products beyond their
traditional agent-led customer base. Banks, MNOs, MFIs, fintechs, agritechs, gigplatforms and staffing companies can easily embed our plug-and-play pensionTech onto
their own mobile and/or web applications to instantly offer an integrated social protection
solution to their clients, members and employees without any new investments in IT or
capacity enhancement.
We’ve recently completed our first equity fundraise to enhance our engineering, business
and delivery capacity and embark on the next stage of pinBox pensionTech development
and expansion. By 2025, we aim to enable and assist 100 million excluded individuals to
start saving for their old age in a secure, affordable and well-regulated environment.
Profile of the Business Head for Embedded Solutions
pinBox is looking for a person with indubitable ethics, who is entrepreneurially inclined,
passionate about digital finance and is eager to build from scratch. The business head for
the embedded partnerships model should be a self-motivated, driven and hands-on
individual who will develop and own short and long-term strategies and goals for this
model.
This is a senior business partnerships development role that requires proactive interactions
with the senior management of a range digital stakeholders including staffing platform
companies, gig-platforms, fintechs, agritechs, payment solution providers and other digital
“aggregators”.
The business head for the embedded partnerships model will be expected to optimize
voluntary micro-pension coverage expansion in India by embedding the pinBox platform
onto the web / mobile apps of a large number of digital aggregators.
The primary measure of success of this role will be the extent to which coverage and
persistency is optimized through effective and sustainable collaborations with a large
number of credible and committed tech partners, and working closely with the pinBox
delivery, communications, product, IT and client protection teams to upscale coverage
and persistency through each such embedded partnership.
The Business Head for Embedded Solutions will be expected to
1. Provide leadership for growing the social impact and business outcomes by our
partners and by pinBox on a pan-India basis,
2. Develop and deliver India business forecasts and goals, an embedded partnerships
pipeline and a segmented go-to-market strategy based on various categories of tech
platforms, occupational groups and target demographic segments,
3. Formulate and implement a replicable, scalable and sustainable engagement,
implementation and governance strategy for partnerships with multiple entities,
4. End-to-end management of the embedded partner onboarding process including
commercial negotiations, product choice, implementation process, and time-bound
coverage and persistency targets,
5. Work closely with the pinBox product, delivery, analytics, communications, customer
protection and IT teams to continually improve efficacy and retail traction based on
partner and client needs and implementation experience,
6. Establish a system for periodic review meetings with partners to regularly monitor
outcomes including enrollments, subscriber knowledge, savings persistency and
adequacy; Work with the pinBox IT and MIS teams to provide partners with real-time
data insights and dashboards to help monitor efforts and optimize outcomes,
7. In consultation with partners, and relevant pinBox teams, develop innovative ideas and
behavioral interventions that optimize voluntary digital enrollments and regular savings
by partner clients/ members,
8. Periodically commission helpline-led interviews and surveys among subscribers to
assess efforts and outcomes and to satisfy partner management that implementation
efforts are in line with stated goals of mass-scale pension and social security inclusion,
9. Proactively investigate implementation challenges and issues and develop and
implement ideas and solutions that can positively impact outcomes at scale,
10. Periodically monitor the efforts of the pinBox delivery team responsible for partner
activation and for providing ongoing IT and communications support to partners, and
11. Contribute to the development of thought leadership on digital micro-pension
inclusion through research papers, media articles and blogs to strengthen the pinBox
brand positioning in digital micro-pension and social security inclusion.
The ideal candidate processes
1. An undergraduate degree in engineering and a post-graduation in business, finance or
marketing,
2. At least 7 years’ experience at a fintech or platform staffing or retail services company
(experience with digital financial inclusion, familiarity with the fintech and technology
apps ecosystem, and retail finance regulatory frameworks in India will be an added
advantage),
3. Excellent oral and written communications skills,
4. Exceptional critical/ lateral thinking, problem-solving and multi-tasking skills, and
5. Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills, a keen eye for detail and the ability to
foster and grow strong relationships