First VP, Product Manager - Wealth, Digital Bank

Are you passionate about making a difference? Do you get bored when not challenged at work? Would you want to re-imagine how financial institutions should be interacting with customers? If your answer is ‘Hell Ya!’ to all three questions, we may just have a role for you.

We are looking for an individual to join our Mobile & Digital team to work to help define and deliver UOB”s digital ambitions. Overseeing significant areas of the ongoing work with a specific focus on Wealth Management, you should be a natural leader and seasoned professional in the digital space. You should have been relevant experience in the digital economy, not necessarily with a financial institution. You should be comfortable with both mobile and online, and will be required to work closely with our technology partners to deliver amazing digital experiences. This is a challenging role and is a senior position that will be directly responsible for leading UOB into the digital future.

So if you love to think out of the box and constantly believe there is a better way of doing things, you may just have found a team to meet your ambitions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & Planning

• Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic & business Case planning to tactical activities
• Work with the assigned country teams to understand their needs, and develop new mobile products to grow the PFS business.
• Analyzing potential revenue streams for product development  
• Understand the business issues and be able to translate it into requirements to the technology team.
• Review requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.

Project Management

• Monitoring of project deadlines and schedules.
• Managing and prioritising changes within the proposed project scope.
• Understands the components of running a fiscally successful project.

Marketing & Execution

• Work with the Marketing and PR teams to plan for public launches of new mobile services.
• Track progress and take up of mobile applications and services through constant review of analytics.  
• Evolve and innovate offering in line with statistics and findings.

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KEY MEASURABLES

REQUIREMENTS

• At least 7 years of product management experience in a financial institution, ecommerce or online environment, with at least 9 years of working experience.

• Broad knowledge of Wealth Management and how digital can support its  growth for a financial institution.

• Strong analytical skills and able to assess multiple systems for troubleshooting. Good problem solver and decision maker.

• Ability to write well and experienced at writing various business documents (i.e. business case and requirements, project plans, presentations, reports, and specifications).

• Excellent communications skills and able to work across both business and technology partners.

• Motivated, able to work independently, proactively and efficiently in a fast paced and changing environment.

• Excited and passionate about the digital space and its ability to change significantly change the way we live.

• Experience with working in a Hub and Spoke model i.e. centralised product management with responsibility for regional roll outs.