Product Manager (3-month contract)

at  Nedbank

JOB CLASSIFICATION

About Nedgroup Investments
Nedgroup Investments is an award-winning global investment business with a growing presence in Africa and Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. The Nedgroup Investments Best of Breed™ philosophy sees us partner with select fund managers who we believe are able to provide consistent long-term outperformance for our clients. These fund managers are experts in their field of specialisation and we tend to partner with them for long periods of time giving them sufficient opportunity to deliver on their mandate objectives. We obsess about long-term performance and our top priority is to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.
Job Family
Project, Process and Product
Career Stream
Product
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Professional

PEOPLE SPECIFICATION

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic. Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals, we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and long-term career growth at Nedgroup Investments. Specifically for this role, we are looking for:

• High standard of personal presentation.
• Self-motivated and well organised with an ability to adapt and tackle a wide variety of challenges.
• Ability to deal with people both within the organisation and external customers

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification
Post Grad Qualification
Minimum Experience Level
3 - 5 years relevant experience in product management.

TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

• Communication Strategies
• Data analysis
• Industry trends
• Principles of financial management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Decision-making process
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Governance, risk and controls

Behavioural Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Facilitating Change
• Initiating Action
• Innovation
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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JOB PURPOSE

We are seeking a Product Manager for a 3-month contract to manage a portfolio of products in order to meet customer requirements profitably; aligned with the strategy of the bank.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement business change initiatives by introducing; managing; making (people change; technological change; process change) happen and keeping Management Information updated
• Define vision for the product, prioritize product features and ensure product supports overall strategy
• Understand and represent user needs
• Identify; understand and agree the direct and indirect impact of business change initiatives by researching; interviewing affected stakeholders and applying end to end skills set.
• Monitor for continuous improvement by observation; analysing data and providing ongoing feedback.
• Ensure compliance (brand/reputation/other risks) by enforcing regulations; policies and procedures and understanding link from policy - process- system - operating procedures.
• Contribute to updates of standards; policies and procedures by meeting with respective stakeholders; agreeing and recommending changes and sending emails confirming the enhancements.
• Provide innovative solutions for updating processes by defining procedures and facilitating workshops with stakeholders.
• Identify the business issue by observation; analysing management reports and requests from EXCO.
• Identify cost/time/quality/risk aspects of the business issue by investigating the business benefits or problems.
• Set expected performance output by meeting and agreeing with management.
• Obtain and secure stakeholder buy-in to solution by presenting alternative solutions and recommending the best solution.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders by regular meetings and agreeing deliverables.
• Recognise performance improvements by acknowledgement of business improvements from other stakeholders.
• Build trusting relationships with stakeholders by open communication; conducting one-on-one meetings and accepting their input.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders’ businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic. Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals, we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and long-term career growth at Nedgroup Investments. Specifically for this role, we are looking for:

• High standard of personal presentation.
• Self-motivated and well organised with an ability to adapt and tackle a wide variety of challenges.
• Ability to deal with people both within the organisation and external customer