Manager - Product Manager

3 weeks ago

Saffron Walden Essex, United Kingdom Saffron Building Society Full time

Excited by the thought of leading New Product Development (NPD) at an award-winning building society? Saffron is looking for an exceptional Product Manager to deliver commercial growth and ensure we meet complex customer needs through NPD . In this role you’ll help set the vision and lead the delivery of new mortgage and savings products, including policy and criteria enhancements.
The role covers mortgages and savings, with the priority focus on mortgages. We’re open to applicants with varied experience, but you’ll need detailed knowledge of the mortgage market. Experience in complex income mortgage lending is a significant advantage.

Be the go-to person for NPD within the Society by demonstrating brilliant strategic thinking, project management, execution and evaluation from end-to-end.
Own & develop Own & develop the NPD strategy and roadmap, involving multiple new product launches a year and a rolling series of lending policy & criteria enhancements.
Work with colleagues across the Society to identify the customer need, size the business opportunity, assess the risk, design the solution and deliver it to market.
Maintain excellent awareness of regulatory, political and economic developments to identify, support and recommend enhancements to our existing range and to identify new opportunities & threats.
Build excellent working relationships with internal partners to deliver NPD smoothly, on-time and on-budget. This includes working with Change, IT, Risk, Retail, Business Development & Marketing Teams.
Build good relationships with external partners, such as sourcing systems and data insight providers, to enhance the Society’s customer understanding and ability to identify market opportunities.
Manage the approval of all NPD through key committees and implementation groups, ensuring all proposals are supported by full commercial analysis and operational evaluation (preparing and circulating decks where necessary).
Identifying and prioritising new product solutions that meet customer needs across mortgages and savings, ensuring the Society has a relevant and competitive NPD roadmap.
Project managing all NPD launches and lending policy/criteria enhancements through the Society’s processes.
Liaise with Marketing and Business Development colleagues to ensure appropriate launch and promotion of products, including providing accurate product specifications for literature and website, along with relevant sign off ensuring what is on sale is accurate.
complaints, conduct risk)
Understand Saffron’s technology and associated processes in order to trade & service products successfully, including taking responsibility for maintaining an accurate log of workarounds for each product to take account of operational impact.

………. The mortgage market and lending practice – this may come from previous product management roles, or experience gained as an underwriter, business development manager or mortgage advisor.
Risk considerations for NPD within a regulated financial services environment
Commercial awareness and ability to quantify a commercial benefit (e.g., Project management and ability to manage multiple projects at the same time.
Sources of customer insight & data, with ability to analyse numerical data.

Performance Related Recognition Scheme
Annual Bonus
Pension 5% Employee and 8.Physical, Mental and Financial Wellbeing support
Life Assurance & Income Protection
Holiday Exchange

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