Job Description

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary Are you a fleet card expert with alliances experince? Here is an exciting career opportunity for you. In this role you will design a Joint Venture Alliance Strategy with Oilco & Digital players to supplement our current Fleet Card plan.
You will execute on this Strategy by aligning Product, Legal, Commercial and Operational requirements. The role entails driving sales efforts across Absa (in partnership with Head of Fleet Card Sales) by designing campaigns and marketing plans in time to build additional revenue streams with other partners.

Product/Proposition Design and Development
Provides the design and development of new and existing Projects/Propositions, taking to market and run of compelling and commercially viable product propositions spanning the product lifecycle.
Drives innovation around the product development and management cycle.
Prepare business cases for new product developments.
Manage marketing collateral of commercial asset finance
Responsible for the operational query resolution of aspects of the respective product
portfolio relating to commercial asset finance.
Risk and Issue Management
Ensuring an optimal and compliant control environment for the product portfolio in commercial asset finance.
Recognised internally as First Line of Defence (1LOD) in risk and issue management and has links to broader risk SME network internally and externally and across Absa.
Implements recommendations to enhance risk management techniques internally.
Stakeholder Management
Ensures service delivery is in line with SLA's (internal and external stakeholders)
Drive interaction with all relevant Infrastructure areas across the business in addressing product management requirements and priorities.
Drive relevant communication related to product changes or new product implementations.
Participate in Group-level activities and forums that impact the respective Product portfolio.
Effectively communicate developments within areas of activity to all relevant internal and
external stakeholders.
Finance
Monitor financial performance of JV and Alliance portfolio
Assist in compiling Medium term plans (MTP) and Short Term Plans (STP) budgets on an annual basis and track performance against these budgets
Understand financial impact of product development and marketing activities in order to align
with budgets available
Product Management
Collaborates with the respective stakeholders in ensuring that Product value propositions
seamlessly integrate into segment and sector value propositions to support and enable the acquisition and retention of customers in specific segments and sectors to support the targeted commercial and customer shapes.
Management and coordination of activities relating to roll out of new products and product enhancements.
Responsible for updates and change of product and process documentation.
Provides exception reporting on rate and fee deviations and revenue leakage in maintaining key
product performance indicators for the respective Product portfolio
Implementation of new product or changes to existing products into the business.
Education
Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

Skills Required