Manager Research & Innovation

Our client is a Banking Institution in Uganda and is seeking to recruit result driven and motivated individuals for the Vacancy above;

Job Purpose:

To drive products innovation in collaboration with strategic decision-makers and cross-functional teams to:

• Discover and evaluate unmet customer needs, important trends, and new opportunities for business growth.
• Design innovative customer solutions and business opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Quarterly Reports: Perform trend analyses; scenario building; synthesize insights and identify opportunities based on competitors, customer, social and technological forces;
• Research: Collate research findings for communication to decision makers and other stakeholders
• Technology: Leverage on technology to identify opportunities that can drive product performance through evaluation of competitor activity, product category performance and revenue
• Product Performance: Work with the business units’ teams to maintain an overview of the products performance and to apply insights and design outputs to their work.
• Liaise with Marketing: Coordinate with the marketing team to ensure that the Dfcu product library contains on-brand material for top products in range for direct implementation in Markets.
• Idea Generation: Oversee internal and external ideation programs to generate continuous new and different products compared to what exists in the marketplace.
• Product Development Committee PDC: Contribute to the PDC by executing unique and differentiating product concepts to support the approval of new products, plans, and test with customers. Work with the PDC to develop new product business case and recommend pricing guidelines for the new products.
• Product Enhancement: Learn and understand the complete products processes, in order to directly manage development of sampling, specific sensitization formats, seasonal products and where necessary line extensions to ensure that individual products cumulatively drive incremental product income margin.

Qualifications:

• University Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Business Studies, Statistics, Economics) with 3-5 years working experience in the Banking industry.)
• Experience of collating and analyzing information across various forms of data and able to absorb, analyze and interpret large amounts of complex information in high-pressure situations.
• Project management experience and effective presentation skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills both verbal and written.
• Flexible approach to work with the ability to respond to changing business priorities.
• Ability to work cross functionally with a strong sense of Customer service.
• Enthusiastic and highly motivated, and able to lead, inspire, network, foster relationships, both internally and externally and motivate others.
• Proficiency in qualitative, quantitative, and/or statistical methods.
• Product or service design and prototyping expertise and experience.
• Ideation facilitation experience.

How to Apply:

Please follow the instructions as stated below as failure to do so could lead to disqualification.

1. Send an Application letter and CV/Resume.

2. Merge these two documents into one document in either word or pdf format.

3. Do not attach or send any scanned documents, these are sometimes too large for our inbox.

4. Include the job title and/or reference number in the subject line of the email address and send your application by email to dbankjobs@nftconsult.com

5. Only successful candidates will be contacted. For all other inquiries please contact our offices directly.