Trade Product Manager

Overview

Responsibilities

• Execute the product strategy in various markets for all product pillars within Trade and Working Capital Solutions, including Core Trade, Trade and Working Capital Loans, Payables Finance and Receivables Finance
• Identify market opportunities, emerging trends, and client needs, ensuring the readiness of Trade and Working Capital Solutions products accordingly
• Collaborate with Sales, Operations, Technology, and Compliance to implement new products or enhance existing ones
• Map out and understand all local regulations applicable to the product and their impact on monitoring and regulatory reporting requirements
• Identify, prioritize, and author product and business requirements/user stories, including sequencing and timing to enhance business processes and controls
• Maintain product documentation, capability grids, policies, and procedures, ensuring all local regulatory requirements are being complied with
• Act as a subject matter expert for Trade and Working Capital Solutions products, providing guidance and training to the sales team
• Participate in client meetings where required to represent the product and gather feedback
• Assist with ongoing performance and maintenance of a product or set of products, including client experience, pricing, risk, and distribution
• Represent customer needs and provide strategic direction on product development features, functionality, and overall competitiveness
• Manage any proactive product risk and control, documentation, credit, legal, and regulatory risk for the markets
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm’s reputation and safeguarding the firm, its clients, and assets by driving compliance

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Trade Finance, Working Capital, and Transaction Banking products
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of local (GCC) regulations for the specific products
• Working knowledge of different banking systems and practices relevant to the function
• Practical experience of multiple business cycles and product flow
• Knowledge of industry and competitor products/services across the GCC region
• Deep experience establishing and enhancing a Product controls environment
• Experience driving software delivery transformation through Agile practice and process, with a focus on establishing a Continuous Delivery culture and process
• Ability to make complex judgments and to provide solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives
• Developed diplomacy skills required to guide, influence, and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers
• Experience with and confidence in delivering presentations to clients and senior managers

Education

• Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience
• Experience of ideally working in KSA and/or the GCC region
• Fluent English; Arabic speaking preferred
• Master’s degree preferred

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