Pretoria: Snr Manager: Financial Services Products posted by IT Ridge Technologies

About the Role

IT Ridge Technologies is seeking a Senior Manager: Financial Services Products to lead our financial services business unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing product strategies, managing cross-functional teams, and driving revenue growth. They will also be expected to stay abreast of industry trends, identify business opportunities, and implement innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategically link activities to business objectives, prioritising the products functions and ensure the effective implementation of strategies for areas of responsibility.
• Align approved functional strategies to overall business strategy.
• Develop and ensure the effective implementation of functional business plans.
• Identify key social, political, and societal issues and implement strategies to meet the challenges.
• Participate towards Exco, Exco Committees and Exco decisions for the effective planning of the Groups activities.
• Develop, recommend for approval an own product vision and roadmap aligned with Groups goals and market trends.
• Formulate a comprehensive short to long-term products strategy for the approval of the Business Development Director for the Group.
• Define product success metrics and track progress towards achieving them against the strategy and set goals.
• Oversee the mangers and specialist in the structures to ensuring product performance, market acceptance and revenue targets by ensuring that product performance and acceptance measured revenue targets.
• Build the Lending and Investment structure ensuring that it is fit for purpose to deliver the Group objectives under the guidance of the Business Development Director.
• Give input to the Business Director to secure executive approvals for product strategy and resource allocation
• Implement approved innovation projects that will increase revenue streams profitably.
• Assess, develop business cases and recommendations for considerations to Exco, including business partnerships for the enhancement of the Lending and Savings and investment products.
• Manage new business generating initiatives under Lending and Investment and their implementation
• Maximize revenue growth for the product portfolio by implementing strategic objectives.
• Drive market share gain or customer acquisition targets through the applicable teams.
• Manage product satisfaction and retention rates by monitoring against set objectives and target.
• Lead the development of commercially sound optimal business.
• Ensure that the initiatives performance metrics meets the required return on investment.
• Manage stakeholders expectation at different levels to identify areas of innovation and growth and implement successful ideas. Engage with internal and external stakeholders to enhance innovative thinking in the Group.
• Develop and implement effective communication plans for the department under the guidance of the Business Development Director.
• Collaborate with the finance department to ensure that good financial practices are adhered to.
• Manage the effective rollout by the product and sales teams and develop the go-to-market plan tools under the guidance of Business Development Director.
• Present and manage the capital and operational budgets of the department.
• Manage effective communication between all supporting business units by regular engagements.

Requirements

• A post -graduate degree / MBA

Qualifications