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.