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Head Eco-Systems & Partnerships

Kampala , Uganda * Full-time
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DFCU Bank

Category: Banking Total Positions: Location: Kampala , Uganda Full-time Salary: Attractive Posted 7 months ago
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Ecosystems Strategy and Solutions Commercialization • Lead the development and implementation of the overall ecosystem strategy (new revenue streams), ensuring alignment with the dfcu Bank’s purpose and commercial ambitions. • Be accountable as a business leader for achievement of the ecosystem’s strategic and outcomes, including the ownership of investment case development for new and/or existing ecosystems extensions • Drive the development of the prioritized ecosystem’s commercial strategy (and its continuous iteration) that defines the short-term and long-term plans leveraging technology and digitization capabilities • Structure ecosystem outcomes and prioritize their execution, ensuring stakeholders are aligned with resources mobilized for the achievement of the intended value. • Ecosystems Solutions Delivery and Management • As the voice of customer within the prioritized ecosystems, lead discussions with stakeholders to understand customer needs with a view of guiding solutioning and development prioritization • Oversee project teams, partnering with the PMO office and 3rd party partners, to optimize work plans across assigned ecosystems and delivery against agreed delivery timelines • Consistently collect market and customer feedback, and develop a repeatable dissemination framework to internal teams that guides and iterates the development process • Own the effective governance including the management and quality assurance of the ecosystems processes, solution documentation, risk identification and mitigation, partner vetting, onboarding and management, aligned to best practice • Monitor and manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and turnaround times for ecosystems and partners to ensure alignment with customer expectations and retention requirements • Strategic Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement • Formulate and mobilize high-growth strategic partnerships that deliver/grow innovative and transformative ecosystem programs, with a particular focus on differentiated best in class solutions • Identify, evaluate, negotiate with, and onboard third-party partners to drive sustainability, provide relevant business opportunities, and offer holistic solutions to clients • Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including shareholders, regulators, industry bodies, and multi-disciplinary teams across the bank and indeed the dfcu group
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QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field. MBA is a plus. • 10+ years’ experience in business planning and strategy, new business models, digital products management and development, sales enablement, managing and expanding a product/solution portfolio, driving demand generation and pipeline acceleration. • Exceptional self-starter with the ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments that come with building a new business/solutions from the ground up. • Passion for technology and intellectual curiosity about new technologies and how they work/enable new customer solutions • Experience in product management, bringing new, digital products and services to market • Past experience in scaling a rapidly growing business, with equal parts ‘general athlete’ and ‘been-there, done-that’ experiences • Industry knowledge: Demonstrable experience in product commercial management across industries, and across customer touchpoints, both online and offline • Strategic & critical thinker: Methodically breaks down problems into smaller components to enable a deeper understanding of root causes of key issues. The role holder will have the ability to evaluate points for improvement and creatively solve complex and ambiguous problems to reach new and unconventional modes of resolution. • Product commercialization and go to market: Strong commercialization experience, specifically, taking new solutions to market. Ability to easily translate client needs into technical requirements, and build narratives to answer to market demand. • Passionate about UX centered design, API products, supply demand experience (consumers, producers and intermediaries) with a focus on driving solution conversion, adoption and usage rates.
HOW TO APPLY
Send your application to: vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com NB: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: Expired
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