Trade Product Manager

United States Citigroup

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