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Head of Product – located in central London with some opportunity for remote working and some travel to partners.

Overview

We are a growing data company based in London (Old Street), Dubai, India and with team members spread across the globe. We work with banks, retailers and FMCG companies to increase sales and optimise operations using data. We are looking to hire our first Head of Product to lead:

• Our own product development – we are moving from a services business to a product and services business and have our first product in beta testing. We need someone to head up creating and rolling out new commercial products in the data and AI field which both serve our existing clients and new markets, for example our new product is for both the retail and charity market.
• Product development for our clients – we work with Heads of and Directors of Innovation in leading businesses to support them to address pain points in their organisation and shape future strategy. We need someone to sit at the heart of this process and design and work with the team to deliver the most user-friendly product for our clients and their customers.

We want to find a high-energy technology leader to help deliver our product vision and lead this new function. The person will have input on key decisions on which potential Profusion products to take through to testing. They will oversee the end-to-end product process working to create the MVP, shape products from that MVP based on thorough user insight through to their launch and maintain, support and refine products once launched. They will work closely with our clients and technical teams to deliver effective new solutions. The individual must enjoy start-up environments and be capable of managing a team but delivering themselves.

We offer a high trust culture that provides flexibility, autonomy and a sense of contribution. You will learn from and share knowledge with a range of talented colleagues, and our academic partners, the University of Essex, who bring the best of academic thinking to influence our products. All of this while embarking on an exciting journey with a company situated at the heart of London’s Tech City.

Key responsibilities:

• Build and oversee the product function of the business to enable new ventures in the data and AI fields and delivery of client projects. Have a vision of what to build and turn that vision into a reality working with the broader Profusion team, users, external stakeholders, current and future potential clients.
• With the CEO and the Board, assess internal and external product ideas and make decisions on whether Profusion invests in these and takes them forward.
• Build out the timeline and costings of the proposed products, dependencies and risks working with the relevant Profusion teams and the ‘venture owner’ (equivalent of business owner). Input into the feasibility assessments of new ideas. Set up the agile process for each product to move from feasibility assessment to MVP, MVP to launch and maintenance and future refinement of launched product.
• Create specification documentation, including clear and complete epics and user stories.
• Gather user requirements, managing the User Researcher(s).
• Manage multiple products (and in time) multiple managers of products effectively, efficiently and with creativity. Manage developers to deliver against the product specifications.
• Work closely with the MarComs team to manage the development and release of supporting micro-sites for the products and ensure content/copy within the products is of the highest quality and responds to user needs.
• Oversee the budget or investment allocated to each product, manage external partner costs and internal development time against plan.
• Prioritise tasks and products to best deliver against business and client priorities. Be accountable to the CEO, Commercial Director and clients for decisions about product functionality and prioritisation. Oversee the Scrum Master to ensure they manage product delivery to time and budget, risks are identified, escalated and managed early and issues resolved quickly. Manage the interdependencies of the development process smoothly.
• Work with the Scrum Master to ensure the task list is visible, transparent, and clear to all, such that everyone knows what is being worked on, when, and why.
• Provide timely communications to the team, client and the Board – communicate early and often about expected delays or other issues.
• Set up the customer service/QA function required as we launch products and oversee the smooth delivery of this to ensure bugs are squashed quickly and major issues are escalated whilst minor ones are handled in the appropriate fashion.
• Manage the digital product release schedules and mitigating risks as appropriate with these.
• Work closely with the Head of IT for Profusion to manage IT security relating to products.
• Review and refine the productisation and dev ops processes.
• Support the Business Manager and Sales team with relevant product information or presentations for bids and reports to external funders and new clients.
• Build the organisation’s understanding of product development.
• Support our Profusion Cares foundation pro bono projects where product skills are required to provide the solution to the social cause.
• Ad-hoc projects to support delivering Profusion’s ambitions as the role requires.

Knowledge and experience:

• Previous experience with team leadership and end-to-end product ownership, preferably at an agile, SaaS organisation, preferably with some experience of managing data/AI products.
• Previous experience working with and leading cross-functional internal and external teams.
• An ability to envision and help design high-quality, innovative products that meet the needs of multiple end-users simultaneously.
• The ability to think through complex use-cases and create ironclad product testing plans, such that potential technical issues are often caught long before release to production, and even before development begins.
• An understanding of how to build new products and iterate on old ones based on user research.
• Experience with briefing and managing freelancers, meeting with potential commercial partners, and working directly with technical teams. While you don’t need to be able to read or write code, you should have a solid understanding of how APIs, databases, single-page applications, and so on work.
• Demonstrable experience of working within teams based on agile or lean project management methodologies, such that you are comfortable executing against shifting priorities on short timelines while delivering a consistent and compelling narrative to stakeholders.
• Experience running projects and owning products that do not exceed budget requirements, and therefore may require you to wear a lot of hats in their execution.
• Experience of working in a start-up environment.

Essential skills:

Leadership: Ability to lead a team and establish shared culture and processes. Ability to work with the MD of Profusion Ventures, the Board and across the Profusion teams to develop a coherent shared vision of Profusion Ventures’ products.

Technical understanding: Good digital and technical understanding, able to work
with external partners, freelancers and in-house teams. Must be able to communicate complex technical ideas to general audiences.

Product management: the ability to manage and deliver products to time and budget which meets user needs.

Adaptable: Able to respond quickly to changes in industry developments. The ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a rapidly scaling organisation.

Creative: Has the ability to generate ideas and deliver products and services in coherent programmes that are compelling to the users for whom they are intended.

An understanding of stakeholder and user research, as well as general UIX best practices.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: the ability to persuade a variety of
audiences and encourage others to use new ways of working, including at senior levels.

Collaborative: Good at building relationships both internally and externally. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across all areas of the organisation and beyond to achieve one vision.

Confident in scoping new ideas for development, with the ability to challenge others and to be challenged.

The ability to help turn requirements into reality in the digital world.

Reward:

It’s so important to do a job you love, with colleagues whose skills you respect and whose company you really enjoy. You also need to feel valued, recognised and rewarded. At Profusion we encourage and support our people to develop themselves, their ideas and their careers. We provide a competitive salary and attractive benefits package, including: 25 days’ paid holiday (plus 8 bank holidays); discretionary bonuses and on the spot WOW Awards; professional development; benefits including free health insurance, subsidised gym membership, pension and interest free season ticket travel loans; opportunities to get involved in charity work and volunteering; flexible working; Friday team drinks, social events, and a friendly culture in a great brand new office in Tech City, just 4 minutes’ walk from Old Street Station.

 

Our mission is to provide home insurance that is fair, that works and that pays out when you need it to. Insurance that is simple and understandable and doesn't hide behind small print. And we do it in a way that is quick and easy for our customers. To help us do so we're looking for an entrepreneurial hands-on Director of Product Development to join our fast-growing team here in Soho. Our team is constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to build an insurance product that puts our customers back in control.

buzzvault seeks a product development leader with the creativity, technical expertise and business acumen to help create new ground-breaking products. We are looking for someone who has a track record of bringing order out of chaos, who will seamlessly collaborate with engineering, UX design, product marketing and finance to deliver robust products from discovery to development to launch.

We believe in design-thinking and see blockchain, machine/deep learning, especially in the areas of Object Detection and Voice Recognition as the foundations for our platforms ability to deliver secure and intelligent solutions. We've got a track record of rapid growth and backing from some of the world's leading investors.

Reporting to our Chief Strategy Officer, you will oversee the entire range of product development activities. Your role will add essential leadership to combine these and develop thoughtful, customer-focused innovative solutions. Leadership that brings talented people together to solve complex problems, inspires the team and stakeholders and deliver a robust product strategy.

We are looking for someone to make lean product management, technology innovation, and software engineering key assets to buzzvault's success.

This is a full-time position based in our Soho office.

Responsibilities

• Help the organisation establish a lean approach to hypothesis testing and establish a focus on market fit. Using market research, in-depth knowledge of competitors and user pain point to inform a roadmap.
• Lead product requirement creation including definition of user cases, user experience and feature specifications to detail how products and product features should be built.
• Build, drive and manage a product development organisation spanning from UX, Product management, Tech & Engineering making product development an agile and cohesive collaborative unit that strives for shared success.
• Put roles and standard agile practices in place to ensure that Product Development is a lean and efficient function aligned to commercial objectives with work flowing from product definition to development, QA, release, and customer support.
• Work with engineers to maintain and improve a continuous delivery pipeline, one that utilises tools and automation to support human potential unleashed from outdated labour-intensive manual work.
• Ensure that technical design and architecture are practices offering a compass of what the product does and helps balances fast time to market against the risk of accumulating chronic technical debt
• Own and manage product development partnerships including technical integrations as well as close nearshore development, ensuring clear agreements, and associated product definition and context to support an effective agile delivery process.
• Manage stakeholders, ensuring transparency and shared understanding without decisions by committee
• Establish feedback loops for an engaged team and a culture of measurable continuous improvement.
• Be an inspiring Leader who acts as both mentor, manager and lead with passion and empathy {buzz's' product and development teams

Experience & Skills

• Deep understanding of lean and agile methodologies with experience in hypothesis testing and understanding of market research methods as well as managing User Research, UX Design, Product Management including roadmaps.
• Solid understanding and experience of launching products (MVP) as well as maturing them.
• 2-5 Years of running a product development organization in a cloud SaaS environments with the demonstrable ability to set up and managing efficient product and engineering organisations of 20+ people using Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience in operating SaaS products including managing customer support issues, achieving operational efficiencies using analytics, DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Track record in delegating, mentoring, and managing team leadership to deliver results
• Exposure and understanding of data-driven products, machine learning, and blockchain.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate vision and plans

Perks

• Vitality Private Medical Insurance
• Healthsheild Cash Plan
• Monthly Sanctus 1:1 Personal Coaching
• £500 annual credit towards learning
• Magical self-replenishing fridge full of soft drinks and organic fruit
• Deliveroo if working late
• Monthly team socials (activity focused, not just boozy)
• Monthly team lunches
• Birthday day off
• Top notch coffee
• VR gaming, PS4 & board games
• Weekly yoga classes

buzzvault is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world. Providing a full spectrum of services including scientific, technical, professional, and construction – and program - management. Our 77,000+ employees in 400+ locations around the world serve a broad range of companies and organisations including industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple markets and geographies.
During our 125 years in the UK, we have been involved in some of the biggest and most challenging projects, delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to the country’s most critical issues, from access to clean air and safe water, civil and national security and safeguarding mobility.
That’s because Jacobs is much more than just a traditional engineering company.
Ranked No. 1 by Fortune’s 2019 World's Most Admired Companies…
Source - http://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/list/filtered?industry=Engineering, Construction&sortBy=industry-rank

A key component of any firm’s digital transformation is using technology to deliver services in a new way that adds value rapidly to the customer and the company. This could either be using technology to deliver an existing service in a better way (automation) or creating a new service altogether (augmentation). With a seeming abundance of opportunities, the challenge is understanding the real “game-changers” and scaling them fast. It is essential to embed a lean DNA which brings rigour around customer desirability, business viability and technical feasibility, and the launch and management, so that the service fully meets the needs of the customer and delivers the expected RoI for the business.
As Jacobs, we strive do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. And doing the right thing means working together to tackle the toughest challenges and always believing there could be a better way. A Lean DNA stems from fundamental marketing and product management practices, however, building these types of capabilities in a company is not trivial and often goes against established practices.

The Digital product Director is a leadership role to drive strategically a lean start up and product management approach across the business, so these become standard and well recognised way to develop, launch and manage new services in collaboration with our customers and business units. The role helps our business maximise the commercial impact of our engineering IP and technology investments prioritised through the lens of client desirability, business viability and technical feasibility:

Develop, manage and sell a world class portfolio of digital products (home grown or third-party)

Empower our people to give clients a more informed, and richer, experience

Attract a new set of clients from products optimised through our engineering expertise

Grow key partnerships to extend our addressable market and other parts of the value chain

Responsibilities:
The responsibilities of the Digital Product Director are as follows:

Support P&L operating unit selling product enabled solutions, collaborating with the Solutions Delivery Director to drive revenues, cost efficiencies and measuring business impact

Collaborate with the Digital Incubation Director to set the commercial direction and priorities of the portfolio, working closely with business unit colleagues to foster strong working relationships to ensure the introduction, and transition, to new business models is successful

Develop new channels and partners that unlock the value chain and access new segments of the market

Build a product management function/capability to develop, launch and manage products embedding best-practice globally at each stage of the lifecycle

Work with our customers and partners to continually gain insights that feed into a commercially driven product roadmap underpinned by a common data platform

Provide hands-on specific advice, coaching and support to teams incubating and managing new products and services. In particular provide advice on go to market, pricing and business model options.

Manage the operational performance, working with the Digital Factory Director to ensure development, delivery and in-life management costs are as expected and KPIs met

Success Criteria:
The Digital Product Director will witness the following accomplishments;

Achieving our ambition: $500M revenue by 2024 - $250M underpinning traditional business and $250M new higher margin revenue

Establishing a product management capability driving best practice globally

We are recognised by our customers as a leader in engineering digital products and solutions

We are recognised by the market as masterminding our future by delivering tangible outcome led value

The opportunities associated with our products are increased

The risks associated with our products are reduced

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience:
This role requires an outstanding commercial leader who has experience in creating, managing and growing higher margin products. They should have a solid track record, with a robust understanding of the product lifecycle, with experience ranging from lean start-up (or similar) to in-life management and a proven ability to apply this experience into the world of professional services and solutions provision in relation to the buildings and infrastructure market. The person should have international experience, gaining commercial awareness in B2B and wholesale markets, and have worked in different environments eg start-up, blue chip.
Technology awareness is important, but other challenges revolve around people and process, therefore the person should be an excellent collaborator and have rounded general management experience, with the experience of managing change. With high EI, and low-ego, they should be able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, being pragmatic, tenacious and resilient.

Our Culture

At Jacobs we see safety differently - we strive to go ‘ BeyondZero ’ by putting the health, safety and well-being of our employees first in everything we do.

We are committed to equality across our business and we work with external organisations such as STEM, WISE (Women in Science & Engineering) and Stonewall . We are also Disability Confident Committed ; therefore, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy.

We encourage applications from candidates looking for flexible working or reduced hours’ contracts.

When you join Jacobs you will have access to a wide range of Global Networks , centred on inclusion and diversity which is the foundation of our business and at the centre of our values.

To find out more about our networks, please visit our website; www.jacobs.com

Equal Opportunities

Successful candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard Pre-Employment check and will be required to undergo various checks including: Identity, Right to Work; Employment/Education History and Criminal Record. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed or rejected.

JACOBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all.

Job Title: Head of Product

Directorate: Marketing and Communications

Responsible to: Marketing and Communications Director

Location: London

Salary: £50,000 p/a

Perm/Temp: Permanent

Hours: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri

Only applications with CVs will be considered

Closing Date: 14th July 2019

Interviews: w/c 22nd July 2019

Purpose of role

• To manage the development, life-cycle management and delivery of new and in-life products and services through the value propositions, and manage the integrated world-class service experience for our Members.

• To develop, deliver and review The Institutes accreditation, standards and quality frameworks for new and existing products and services, ensuring integrity and consistency of standards is defined and maintained.

• To oversee the management and end-to end delivery of the Institutes new and in-life product and service portfolio

• To support the Marketing & Communications Team with a range of activities relating to our product portfolio

What we are looking for:

Knowledge

An awareness of modern marketing techniques including campaign management, digital & social channels and lead generation

Skills (essential)

• Planning and project management skills to ensure implementation of effective product plans on time and within budget

• Highly numerate and able to use data to inform strategy and improve product performance

• Accomplished oral and written communications in English to produce concise and impactful business case papers, product copy and promotional material

• Delivers to time and budget in line with project management principles

• Strong commercial acumen

• Excellent stakeholder and supplier management and ability to manager stakeholders including CEO, Director team, Client Development team and suppliers

• IT skills: competent in use of Adobe Creative Cloud and website CMSs & html

• Microsoft competency levels: Advanced Excel & Word, Intermediate Powerpoint

Attitudes (essential)

• High integrity

• Proactive and solution-oriented

Experience

• 8 years experience in a Product Development B2B or B2C environment (essential)

• Experience with data collection and analytics (essential)

• Learning & Development experience (desirable)

Education and Professional Qualifications

Educated to degree level (essential)

Minimum GCSE at C or above (or equivalent) in English and Maths (essential)

Note: Occasional evening work and travel to other locations will be necessary

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and investment in your personal development. You will have the opportunity to improve customer experiences for our member organisations, resulting in a sustained improvement on the performance of the UK.

For more information and a full job description follow the link at: https://www.instituteofcustomerservice.com/about-us/careers#head-of-product

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £45,000.00 to £50,000.00 /year

Experience:

• Learning & Development: 1 year (Preferred)
• Product Development B2B or B2C: 8 years (Required)
• Data Collection and Analytics: 8 years (Required)

The DepartmentPurpose of JobEssential Skills

Director of Product - Programmable Video

Vonage is looking to hire an experienced Product Director to lead the Nexmo Video Platform team.

We are a leader in WebRTC technology, providing the premier cloud platform for adding live video, voice and messaging to your web and mobile applications. We believe that integrating real-time communication into products should be simple, whether you're developing an app for one-to-one calls, group chat or large-scale broadcast.

As part of the Product leadership team, you will deliver groundbreaking platform products and features to drive the adoption of live video communications across numerous industry verticals and hundreds of thousands of applications. You will be providing the vision and strategy for key areas of the Nexmo Platform and working cross functionally to achieve your vision. If you want to build the future in a fun, collaborative and highly professional environment, Nexmo is the place for you.

The role is a great fit for an experienced product leader with a strong technical background, who enjoys working closely with developers both internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision, strategy and execution for all functional areas of the Nexmo video platform
• Work closely with customers to deeply understand their needs and develop product offerings that exceed expectations and grow platform value.
• Drive cross-functional teams including engineering, PM, marketing, customer success, finance, data science, and business development to launch groundbreaking product offerings.
• Perform industry and competitive analysis to identify trends, portfolio gaps and new product opportunities.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a Product Manager delivering client or cloud based platform products and features (SaaS or PaaS)
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral. Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, customers, and executives.
• Action oriented with an ability to leverage collaboration skills and initiative to get things done
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Experience identifying success metrics and analyzing data
• Technical background and comfortable with APIs & SDKs
• Customer centric, with experience working in a B2B or B2D environment

Nice to have

• MBA preferred
• Experience with digital video standards, social video, video broadcast or video distribution
• Experience working in a startup-style environment

• Primary Location: United Kingdom,England,London
• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Job Function: Compliance and Control
• Schedule: Full-time
• Shift: Day Job
• Employee Status: Regular
• Travel Time: No
• Job ID: 19028866

Description

Serves as a senior EMEA functions compliance risk manager for Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) responsible for establishing internal strategies, policies, procedures, processes, and programs to prevent violations of law, rule, or regulation and design and delivery of a risk management framework that maintains risk levels within the firm's risk appetite and protects the franchise. In addition, engages with the ICRM product and function coverage teams, in order to partner to develop and apply CRM program solutions that meet the function/business/product and customer needs in a manner consistent with the Citi program framework.

Key Activities include:

• Providing compliance coverage to assigned functions (Finance, Risk, HR, Legal, Productivity, GPA and IA). Provides compliance guidance on the assigned functions rules and regulations relating to operational issues, transactional approvals and the application of internal compliance policies for day-to-day activities.
• Managing a team of multiple teams of Compliance professionals. Developing, attracting, and retaining talent; recommending staffing levels required to carry out the units role and responsibilities effectively while establishing and adhering to talent management processes and compensation and performance management programs. Mentoring and developing junior staff.
• Directing the design, development, delivery and maintenance of best-in-class Compliance, programs, policies and practices for ICRM. Translates ICRM strategy and goals across Citis clients, products and geographies; provides direction and guidance on the programs.
• Staying abreast of relevant changes to rules/regulations and other industry news including regulatory findings.
• Providing oversight and guidance over the assessment of complex issues, structures potential solutions and drives effective resolution with other stakeholders. Provides advice to the function/business/product on an ongoing basis on new initiatives, new products, acquisitions, and client-related matters with respect to applicability of policies, resolution of potential red flags or other client/transaction-related compliance escalations.
• Representing Citi on critical regulatory matters as required. Serves as liaison with regulatory examiners, Internal Audit, and external auditors on critical Compliance issues and oversees the implementation of related remediation. Collaborating with other internal areas including: Business Management, Operations, Technology, Finance, other Control Functions, and In-Business Risk to address compliance issues which may impact the assigned business/product/function.
• Supporting the functions in performing timely compliance reviews of new transactions and/or products.
• Managing ICRM initiatives as required, such as the implementation of new Compliance systems, controls, and related project management work efforts.
• Assisting in the development and administration of Compliance training for the assigned business/product/function.
• Overseeing the monitoring and identification of regulatory developments, including enforcement actions, and new laws, regulations, rules, and interpretations or guidance relating to the business/product/function supported.
• Analyzing and scoping the impact including applicability of new and complex regulatory developments across the assigned business/product/function, including cross-border impact.
• Assisting in the establishment of ICRM policies, procedures and controls to comply with these new or changed laws and regulations.
• Participating in industry groups and trade association working groups or other forums.
• Additional duties as assigned.
  
  Qualifications
  
  Knowledge, skills and experience required:
  
  Required: Bachelors degree; experience in compliance, legal or other control-related function in the financial services firm, regulatory organization, or legal/consulting firm, or a combination thereof; strong working knowledge of the assigned function/business/product and related laws and regulations, previous experience managing a diverse staff.
  
  • Highly motivated, strong attention to detail, team oriented, organized
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions through concise and clear messaging
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with senior leaders
• Significant knowledge and expertise of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and appropriate controls
• Experience in the design and implementation of Compliance programs
• Demonstrated ability to assess complex issues through root cause analysis and other analytical techniques; structure potential solutions; drive to resolution with senior stakeholders
• Ability to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level using sound judgment and successful execution, understanding how to operate effectively across diverse Business/Function
• Experience with and previous exposure to internal or external control functions and regulators
• Ability to challenge Business/Function management and escalate issues when appropriate
• Strong track record of effectively assessing and managing competing priorities
• Comfortable navigating complex, highly-matrixed organizations
• Comfortable acting as an agent for positive change with agility and flexibility
• Effective negotiation skills, a proactive and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues and strength in sustaining independent views. Strong presentation and relationship management skills are essential
• Subject matter expertise in area of focus
• Related certifications desirable
  
  Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.
  
  Valuing Diversity:
  
  Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organisational success.
  
  Citi is an Equal Opportunities Employer

• Primary Location: United Kingdom,England,London
• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Job Function: Compliance and Control
• Schedule: Full-time
• Shift: Day Job
• Employee Status: Regular
• Travel Time: No
• Job ID: 19028866

Description

Serves as a senior EMEA functions compliance risk manager for Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) responsible for establishing internal strategies, policies, procedures, processes, and programs to prevent violations of law, rule, or regulation and design and delivery of a risk management framework that maintains risk levels within the firm's risk appetite and protects the franchise. In addition, engages with the ICRM product and function coverage teams, in order to partner to develop and apply CRM program solutions that meet the function/business/product and customer needs in a manner consistent with the Citi program framework.

Key Activities include:

• Providing compliance coverage to assigned functions (Finance, Risk, HR, Legal, Productivity, GPA and IA). Provides compliance guidance on the assigned functions rules and regulations relating to operational issues, transactional approvals and the application of internal compliance policies for day-to-day activities.
• Managing a team of multiple teams of Compliance professionals. Developing, attracting, and retaining talent; recommending staffing levels required to carry out the units role and responsibilities effectively while establishing and adhering to talent management processes and compensation and performance management programs. Mentoring and developing junior staff.
• Directing the design, development, delivery and maintenance of best-in-class Compliance, programs, policies and practices for ICRM. Translates ICRM strategy and goals across Citis clients, products and geographies; provides direction and guidance on the programs.
• Staying abreast of relevant changes to rules/regulations and other industry news including regulatory findings.
• Providing oversight and guidance over the assessment of complex issues, structures potential solutions and drives effective resolution with other stakeholders. Provides advice to the function/business/product on an ongoing basis on new initiatives, new products, acquisitions, and client-related matters with respect to applicability of policies, resolution of potential red flags or other client/transaction-related compliance escalations.
• Representing Citi on critical regulatory matters as required. Serves as liaison with regulatory examiners, Internal Audit, and external auditors on critical Compliance issues and oversees the implementation of related remediation. Collaborating with other internal areas including: Business Management, Operations, Technology, Finance, other Control Functions, and In-Business Risk to address compliance issues which may impact the assigned business/product/function.
• Supporting the functions in performing timely compliance reviews of new transactions and/or products.
• Managing ICRM initiatives as required, such as the implementation of new Compliance systems, controls, and related project management work efforts.
• Assisting in the development and administration of Compliance training for the assigned business/product/function.
• Overseeing the monitoring and identification of regulatory developments, including enforcement actions, and new laws, regulations, rules, and interpretations or guidance relating to the business/product/function supported.
• Analyzing and scoping the impact including applicability of new and complex regulatory developments across the assigned business/product/function, including cross-border impact.
• Assisting in the establishment of ICRM policies, procedures and controls to comply with these new or changed laws and regulations.
• Participating in industry groups and trade association working groups or other forums.
• Additional duties as assigned.
  
  Qualifications
  
  Knowledge, skills and experience required:
  
  Required: Bachelors degree; experience in compliance, legal or other control-related function in the financial services firm, regulatory organization, or legal/consulting firm, or a combination thereof; strong working knowledge of the assigned function/business/product and related laws and regulations, previous experience managing a diverse staff.
  
  • Highly motivated, strong attention to detail, team oriented, organized
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions through concise and clear messaging
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with senior leaders
• Significant knowledge and expertise of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and appropriate controls
• Experience in the design and implementation of Compliance programs
• Demonstrated ability to assess complex issues through root cause analysis and other analytical techniques; structure potential solutions; drive to resolution with senior stakeholders
• Ability to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level using sound judgment and successful execution, understanding how to operate effectively across diverse Business/Function
• Experience with and previous exposure to internal or external control functions and regulators
• Ability to challenge Business/Function management and escalate issues when appropriate
• Strong track record of effectively assessing and managing competing priorities
• Comfortable navigating complex, highly-matrixed organizations
• Comfortable acting as an agent for positive change with agility and flexibility
• Effective negotiation skills, a proactive and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues and strength in sustaining independent views. Strong presentation and relationship management skills are essential
• Subject matter expertise in area of focus
• Related certifications desirable
  
  Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.
  
  Valuing Diversity:
  
  Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organisational success.
  
  Citi is an Equal Opportunities Employer

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To respond to
this technology disruption, the TAS practice has embarked on a journey of
change to exploit the opportunities from technology and fundamentally evolve
how we serve our clients – from the use of artificial intelligence and advanced
analytics to identify insights in data, robotic processes to automate routine
tasks and natural language generation to automate report writing.

As part of
this journey, we have created a dedicated team to drive our innovation agenda
under the direction of our Chief Innovation Officer. We now have open roles to
continually develop our innovation portfolio and drive our solutions from
initial ideas through to proof-of-concepts and pilots, and ultimately leading
to the scaling and integration of technology based products into the core
business.

These tasks
will involve working closely with and managing multiple stakeholders – from
business teams, technical developers through to external technology vendors. A
combination of strong communication, project management, product development
and technology understanding will be key to this role.

Although the
TAS team is largely London-based, we operate as a national team so this role may
require some travel within the UK.

Your
key responsibilities

In partnership with business owners, you will help identify
a pipeline of innovation opportunities, developing solutions and roadmaps
whilst managing a portfolio of products that are in various stages of
development. You will help support the creation of business cases that
demonstrate value to the business as well as capturing and defining
requirements and documenting functional and technical designs as appropriate. You
will have the opportunity to create and own of the delivery plans, whilst working
closely with the development steam to build solutions to plan. In addition, you
have responsibility for:

• The creation of user
  guides, FAQs, demo videos as necessary to support adoption
• Producing budgets, project plans and progress
  reports that successfully manage stakeholders’ expectations
• Working closely with EY stakeholders beyond TAS to
  remain aligned with broader innovation initiatives.
• Ongoing horizon scanning of relevant technologies
  and how these may impact our business

Skills
and attributes for success

• Demonstrable enthusiasm and interest in technology
  through hands on experience in programming, or other technical skill, and willingness
  to learn new technology
• Ability to successfully interact with senior
  stakeholders
• Experience of leading diverse teams, complex
  engagements, mentoring and coaching junior staff to maximise performance.
• Sound understanding of disruptive technologies and
  innovation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

To
qualify for the role you must have

• Project management experience with a track record
  of successful delivery covering analysis, design, test, deployment and operation
  of new products
• Senior Product Management experience including
  delivery of entire technology based products from start to finish in time and
  on-budget
• Experience in agile development methodologies and
  product management frameworks
• Experience of vendor management and working with
  offshore teams

Ideally,
you’ll also have

• A background in software development
• Good knowledge of typical services provided by a
  transactions advisory/corporate finance practice of a Big 4 professional
  services firm
• Experience of working in a professional services
  environment, including exposure to high profile transactions

What
we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent
problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a
rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident
leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to
make things happen in a dynamic organization.

What
working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package
where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our
comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and
career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your
needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide
range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

Support, coaching and feedback from some
of the most engaging colleagues around

Opportunities to develop new skills and
progress your career

The freedom and flexibility to handle
your role in a way that’s right for you

EY
is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider
flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our
people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to
build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our
client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times
be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to
achieve a lifestyle balance.

About
EY

As a
global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using
the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working
world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training,
opportunities and creative
freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however
long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a
commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our
ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the
criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.

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