Innovation Manager at Wema Bank Plc
Wema Bank Plc - Widely reputed as the longest surviving and most resilient indigenous bank in Nigeria, Wema Bank Plc has over the years, diligently offered a fully-fledged range of value-adding banking and financial advisory services to the Nigerian public.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Innovation Manager
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Summary
- The ideal candidate will interpret business strategy, identify innovative solutions, support strategy implementation, act as a strategic partner to other businesses and functions, contribute and influence strategic direction for the bank.
Responsibilities
- Interpret business strategy and identify innovative solutions supporting strategy implementation.
- Develop an Innovation Strategy that fits into the bank’s corporate strategy.
- Contribute and influence strategic direction for the bank.
- Act as a strategic partner to other businesses and functions to identify and implement innovation opportunities, new products/processes.
- Proposing innovative products and business models aimed at enhancing the bank’s offerings.
- Support critical functions in strategic decision-making and Go-to-Market process
- Design, research, develop, analyze, and suggest new concepts and strategies, introducing new products or services for internal and external customers.
- Support and influence the design and launch of value propositions that fulfil customer expectations.
- Design and model solutions for customer innovation and experience
- Manage and evaluate innovation portfolio and pipeline.
- Providing best practices in strategic design for new products/services
- Defining the guidelines and policies that must be met in relation to innovation in the Bank.
- Implementing and leading the plan to create a culture of innovation in collaboration with Human Capital Management.
- Monitoring, analyzing, and communicating innovation metrics to senior management to seek opportunities to improve the company’s innovative performance.
- Analyzing internal processes or developments to turn them into profitable “products” for the market.
- Manage the bank’s headline innovation events.
- Coordinate all cross-functional activities, engage customers internally and collaborate with leaders across the bank on allocation of resources across key innovation initiatives.
- Shape learning and development of key skills and competencies supporting innovation across the organization.
- Reimagining the experience of new customers in relation to the company’s products and services
- Proposing and implementing new experiences for internal collaborators
Requirements
Educational:
- Minimum requirement is a Bachelor’s Degree in any course from a reputable University.
- Certifications in Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Business Analysis and Product Management are an added advantage.
Other Qualifications:
- 8-10 years of Cross-industry experience:
- Fintech
- Non-financial technology Startups
- Venture Capital
- Accelerators and Hubs
- Banking.
Technical:
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Presentation Design & Delivery
- Strategy
- Product Design
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Entrepreneurial Drive
- Leadership.
- Market Research
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Analysis
Behavioral:
- Empathy
- Passion
- Curiosity.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline 31st October, 2021.