Senior Product Manager Global Transaction Banking

Job Title:Senior Product Manager Global Transaction Banking
Location:London U.K.
Department:Wholesale Banking
Employment Type:Permanent
Work Pattern: FullTime

Overview:

The Senior Product Manager GTB Wholesale Banking Europe:

Will be responsible for the strategic direction development and management of transaction banking products;
Supports the European Head of GTB (EHGTB) and the broader WB Leadership team in implementing the Wholesale Banking and GTB strategy;
Drives disciplined product management across the GTB business
Develops insightful performance metrics/analysis of the GTB business to uncover challenges and recommend mitigating solutions and identify and recommend opportunities to meet Wholesale banking strategic & business objectives
Ensures key governance mechanisms are in place and potential risks (business audit risk compliance etc.) are identified and resolved/mitigated.

In order to achieve these objectives the Senior Product Manager GTB will:

require a deep understanding of transaction banking strong leadership skills and the ability to work crossfunctionally to deliver products that meet the needs of our clients and align with our business strategy and goals.

What You Will Be Doing:

Achieve business and product performance. Notably:

• Oversee the endtoend management of existing GTB products including monitoring P&Ls commercializing GTB products and ensuring their fitforpurpose nature for our clients;

• Work jointly with internal stakeholders across WB Coverage GTB Product and Unit Heads in ABC IB & SA to implement and deliver strategic initiatives to help grow their WB business particularly GTB product propositions & digital channel onboarding.
• Support GTB Product WB Coverage and Geography businesses in developing implementing and embedding their individual business strategies/plans to align to the WB Strategy;
• Develop a deep understanding of market and sector trends threats and opportunities and needs of prospective and current Clients to feed into a continuouslyevolving WB Strategy and work closely with crossfunctional stakeholders to identify potential GTB product enhancements based on a deep understanding of client and business needs;
• Continuously review the WB pipeline and ensure WB Coverage GTB Product and Geography businesses maintain a strong proactive marketing program to identify new GTB product/ market opportunities to grow and diversify revenues and expand the Client base;
• Ensure WB businesses consistently implement and monitor robust strategic/client plans and coordinate periodic deepdive reviews of the same;
• Use data to create insightful management information (MI) to support pricing and profitability monitoring and contribute to relevant Committees e.g. EBAC.
• Devise and implement reporting procedures to ensure awareness of all core issues and data pertinent to the performance of Wholesale Banking including identifying earlywarning signals that may impact achieving the WB Strategy objectives including competitive strengths & weaknesses of the GTB product proposition);
• Provide ongoing support and assistance to WB Businesses including in relation to business origination/development devising bespoke financial solutions/ advisory roll out of new GTB products entering new markets and revision/enhancement of existing processes;
• Setup issues and requests for GTB product approvals pricing legal and internal queries
• Continuously monitor the transaction banking and regulatory environment to ensure competitive offerings and compliance with market changes; and
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting by the WB Businesses by coordinating with the relevant internal stakeholders as required.
• Manage business risks (audit risk and compliance). Notably;
• a) Key contact for Audit Risk & Compliance matters
• b) Manage the product and risk control framework including product approvals/ product papers.
• c) Lead on GTB Product Governance activities including product reviews ensuring that key governance mechanisms are in place to identify and manage potential business risks
• d) Develop mitigation/ remediation approaches and disseminate to relevant stakeholders across ABCIB and Group Head office to embed approaches

1. Delivery of key strategic/ change initiatives. Notably:

• Support and where necessary lead the development assessment implementation and monitoring of change/transformation initiatives ensuring appropriate governance mechanisms to enable agile consistent and effective delivery.
• Prepare adhoc performance analysis of GTB product component of the Wholesale Banking Business;

1. v. Team Leadership and Development. Notably:

• Mentor and guide junior team members.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Candidate Specification:

Strong understanding of the transaction banking landscape including payments cash management trade finance and related technologies
Strong generalist knowledge across multiple products including frontend channels middle and backoffice systems
Strategy Corporate & FI Banking Wholesale Banking Products Trade Finance risk management Credit Analysis Fintech Relationship Management and Business development
Appropriate level of experience in banking with strong exposure to product and business management and front office roles key. Experience of operating at EXCO/ManCom level track record of delivery and versatility.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills problem solving skills highly analytical delivery focused intellectual curiosity ability to communicate/ present at all levels of the organization internally and externally highly organized and attentive to detail.
Strong sense of accountability
Commercial acumen and proactive with the ability and willingness to take the initiative. Analytical skills with the ability to construct and evaluate different business cases to maximize ROI.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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