Head of Savings

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Vanquis Bank Full time

**Location**: London, Bradford, Chatham, Petersfield**Salary**:
**Closing Date**: Tuesday 16 April 2024- We’re Vanquis Banking Group plc, a FTSE All Share company, and a leading specialist bank, focused on the near prime and mid cost credit markets.- The Group has been providing financial inclusion, which supports social mobility, to those whose needs have not been well met by traditional lenders for over 140 years. We lend responsibly and provide tailored products and services to 1.7 million customers throughout the UK.- We're proud to support the 1 in 5 people in the UK who can’t get access to credit products through mainstream banks and building societies. We want to provide a helping hand when others don’t. That’s why our aim is to continue to develop better banking products for the 10-12 million people in the UK who deserve good quality products that they can’t get anywhere as well as to support the whole of the UK population to build up their financial resilience and better protect themselves against the rising cost of living.- Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.**Role purpose**
- The Head of Savings brings expertise and specialism to ensure that we develop a product proposition that serves our customer needs and wants in a way that is innovative and sustainable.**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop and ensure delivery of effective business plans and strategies to ensure targeted revenue and profit growth within the Savings product line.
- Meet the P&L for Savings by delivering on the respective financial targets and P&L figures; driving pricing strategies, cost management and forecasting revenue from acquisition and existing customer activity.
- Understand and model the impacts of business quality on impairments, working closely with Credit Risk and Finance to ensure performance to plan.
- Support the development of the Savings product strategic direction and the overarching proposition to drive sustainable and profitable growth.
- Lead and execute on savings pricing strategies and portfolio optimisation to produce customer value for shareholder return.
- Ensure that governance and oversight are effective and key performance metrics and scorecard targets are met and communicated to Board committees and other relevant audiences. Ensure good customer outcomes because of fair and effective business operations and regulatory adherence.

**Skills & Experience required**:

- Experience in a Commercial or Head of Function level role as you will be required to manage all aspects of Commercial Development and P & L for the Savings product. You will be required to formulate the Savings strategy and grow a successful team. The role requires sound legal and regulatory understanding of the Financial Services industry and experience of balancing commercial and regulatory obligations.
- Experience of defining and leading strategic change programmes, with the ability to plan and organise work effectively and prioritise activity. You will balance long term strategic thinking and day to day operational activity, reacting quickly to fast moving and demanding business situations.
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
- Excellent communication (written and oral), leadership, negotiation, influencing and presentation skills, particularly at the Executive level.
- Sound judgement and ability to operate independently and objectively.
- Strong people management skills and gravitas to build external relationships, achieved in a remote, matrix environment while working collaboratively across functions.
- Understanding of corporate governance frameworks and the requirements of an FCA/PRA regulated business.
- Experience in successfully developing and managing consumer product teams.
- Deep understanding of Savings and track record to innovate with the consumer product while managing complex product development cycles and multi distribution platforms.
- Track record of customer obsession and innovation.
- Experience in end-to-end ownership of a product and P&L.

**Working Conditions - **London/Chatham/Petersfield/Bradford - Hybrid working- We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.- We’re an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner



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