This role will drive the product management agenda within the country/market, managing the end-to-end product life cycle for a suite of products (e.g., Liquidity Management Services/LMS, Core Accounts). The incumbent will own product strategy, definition, development, and execution. This includes building and prioritizing a product backlog, defining business requirements, and managing associated business processes, risks, and controls. This position requires a senior candidate with a strong background in product management, product development, project management, risk & controls, and a deep understanding of financial services and associated business processes. The role will report to the MEA LMS Head and will partner closely with Sales, Technology, Operations, and Risk & Controls teams
Responsibilities:
- Execute the product strategy in various markets for all product pillars within LMS, including Deposits & Investments (D&I), Global Liquidity and Cash Concentration (GLCC), Balance Sheet management (BSM) and Core Accounts (CA).
- Identify market opportunities, emerging trends, and client needs, ensuring the readiness of LMS & Core Accounts 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 LMS & CA 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 Citigroup, its clients, and assets by driving compliance.
Qualifications:
- Relevant experience in Product Management and/or Product Development.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the industry, banking, and investment 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 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 are 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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Job Family Group: Product Management and Development------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:Market Segments and Services------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:Full time------------------------------------------------------
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