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Job Title:  Manager – Lending Products

Organisation: DFCU Bank

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports To: Product Manager

About US:

DFCU bank is a fast growing commercial bank offering a variety of innovative products and services. DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development Finance Company of Uganda Limited. Later restructuring brought in DEG (of Germany) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) as equal partners with CDC and UDC, each having a 25% stake in the company. Its objective was to support long-term development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to the then existing financial commercial lending institutions.

Job Summary: The Manager- Lending Products holder will be responsible for product lifecycle management, innovation across products and customer value propositions, value management – deepening and activation, customer retention, marketing, and analytics-based campaigns, engaging with business departments to ensure sales and revenue budget achievement, continuous product improvement.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Continually identify and implement product improvements by leveraging channel, customer, and competitive insights.
• Responsible for end-to-end new product launch activities for timely and successful rollout; including working with multi-functional stakeholders on sales training, marketing communications campaigns, promotions etc.
• Develop and roll out marketing plans for lending products through market research, competitive analysis, pricing, customer engagement, and business planning.
• Engage the channel management teams for superior delivery of existing products and faster adoption of new products to meet business goals.
• Work on both architectural and functional issues with cross-functional teams to achieve integration and clean business flows for projects of varying nature.
• Plan and co-ordinate with business departments (PBB and CB) to deliver business results including handling of product queries.
• Conceptualize marketing enablers that affect channel and customer decision making with respect to product uptake.
• Drive end-to-end bank level campaigns and programs to achieve product penetration targets.
• Drive product pricing, profitability, and revenue management for assigned product lines to achieve financial objectives.
• Analyze and prepare business performance/ market trends/ competitive landscape reports for lending products.
• Prepare and present Progress dashboards and product performance reports as per agreed timelines.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelors’ degree in a relevant field.
• At least five years working experience.
• At least three years’ experience in product management.
• Good knowledge of key product marketing principles.
• Product and financial training.
• Understanding of key business drivers and ability to drive business output.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Advanced forecasting, pricing, and business modelling.
• Good computer knowledge especially spreadsheets and databases, word, and PowerPoint.
• Good interpersonal skills to work with other teams for implementation of activities.
• Business and Industrial awareness.
• Team player and ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Solutions oriented mind set.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates please forward your application with a detailed CV including present position and copies of relevant professional/academic certificates (University Transcript, O & A level), to the email address indicated below:

Vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com

Deadline: 15^th March 2022

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