Head, Product Management

Description

• Maximize short and long term shareholder value by creating and implementing both a 3-year strategic product roadmap as well as an annual operating plan that will enable the business, from a product perspective, to exceed all financial and non-financial goals
• A key business partner to the TPS Head, Namibia for driving a fully integrated Sales, Product, Channel agenda
• Key leadership role requiring the recruitment and development of the next generation of product management in the country

Requisites

• Bachelor Degree in Commerce or any other business related qualification (NQF level 7). An Honours degree would be an added advantage
• Experience:
• Past experience managing a team and a P&L
• Experience managing through influence in a large organization
• Ideally 5-10 years of Product management experience
• Strong understanding of the Namibian market particularly as it relates to Transaction banking clients and activities
• Relevant client and/or geographical experience in the Africa region
• Past involvement with industry bodies such as BAFT/SWIFT etc.
• Minimum 15 years of working experience, with preferably 10 years in financial services
• Ideally gained experience working in/across multiple geographic locations
• Skills and Knowledge:
• Technical Skills:
• High Familiarity with Corporate Bank and Global Markets product set
• Excellent Transaction Banking knowledge, market leading
• Basic understanding of balance sheet and financials
• Business Skills:
• Ability to successfully manage a wide range of concurrent initiatives
• Strategic vision and foresight
• Analytical skills
• Process/Project Management Skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• High degree of interpersonal skills
• Resourceful, resilient, creative, collaborative
• Ability and personality to drive change
• Strategic
• Achievement and results oriented
• Business maturity and instinct
• Ability to work in global and multi-cultural teams
• Manage market, capital, and operational risk
• Represent the bank to regulators and other external parties
• Ability to approach issues and opportunists strategically and understanding bank wide implications of decisions

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted