Cash Product Development Specialist

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

To provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation, coordinating and facilitating product specific campaigns, data analytics and market insights. This includes planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques as well as enabling the provision of sound product development expertise.

To manage relationships with critical stakeholders to ensure optimal product delivery to fulfill, among other, key organizational objectives of sales performance and execution as well as revenue growth and sustainability.

Actively driving stakeholder engagements within the organization to optimize collaboration.

Manage supplier relationships to enhance healthy working relationships and the fostering of cultivated sales growth and revenue environments.

Product enhancement by remaining abreast of industry standards and insights.

Review product processes and standards to continuously support revenue growth and report limitations where the process imposes a risk to revenue growth or income leakage.

Product process enhancements to benefit product development to support revenue growth.

Manage and maintain sound relationships with critical stakeholders such as Cash Product, Cash Specialists, Bankers, Risk, Compliance and Client Value Management colleagues.

Actively engage suppliers on modelled revenue streams supported by active sales campaigns.

Continuously review product development to support sales performance and execution

Product analysis will include reviewing product process to continuously look for enhancements within the product process.

Continuously review and analyze data to support the development of and successful completion of campaigns.

Development of cash product campaigns to support sales performance and execution.

Lead and drive campaign acquisition of new to bank of Relationship Banking clients with primary focus on acquiring new business as well as switching physical cash relationships from competitor banks.

Continuously review product processes to identify areas of real and potential risk within the Product.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree and Advanced Diploma: Business, Commerce, Marketing and Management studies (required)

Experience Required

2 to 5 years of relevant work experience – Preferably in corporate banking sales, marketing coordination or relationship management.

Experience in the Commercial Payments Solutions environment including Cash Management, Merchant Acquiring and Commercial Issuing.

Data Analytics Experience including market research.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Sales Campaign Execution proficiency

Project Management: Ability to plan and execute product development launches and integrated campaigns from start to finish.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised