Trade Product Manager
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About the Role
Citi seeks a Trade Product Manager to drive product management for Trade and Working Capital Solutions in the MEA region. The role manages the end-to-end product lifecycle, collaborates with sales and technology teams, and ensures regulatory compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Execute the product strategy in various markets for all product pillars within Trade and Working Capital Solutions
- Identify market opportunities, emerging trends, and client needs, ensuring the readiness of Trade and Working Capital Solutions 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 Trade and Working Capital Solutions 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 the firm
Requirements
- Relevant experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Trade Finance, Working Capital, and Transaction Banking 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 the GCC region
- Deep experience establishing and enhancing a Product controls environment
- Experience driving software delivery transformation through Agile practice and process
- Ability to make complex judgments and provide solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought
- Developed diplomacy skills required to guide, influence, and convince others
- Experience with and confidence in delivering presentations to clients and senior managers
- Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience
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Role Overview
- 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., Trade and Working Capital Solutions). The incumbent will own product strategy, definition, development, and execution. This includes building and pr
Responsibilities
- Execute the product strategy in various markets for all product pillars within Trade and Working Capital Solutions, including Core Trade, Trade and Working Capital Loans, Payables Finance and Receivables Finance
- Identify market opportunities, emerging trends, and client needs, ensuring the readiness of Trade and Working Capital Solutions 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 Trade and Working Capital Solutions 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 the firm, its clients, and assets by driving compliance
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Trade Finance, Working Capital, and Transaction Banking 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 the 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 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
- Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience
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