Financial Services Specialist at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

The purpose of this role is to be accountable for marketing and initiatives management within Financial and/or Value-Added Services. To execute the strategy for the portfolio and ensure the end to end value chain is functioning optimally by developing and managing stakeholder relationships, developing a strategy and key plans to execute on the marketing efforts required for all products whether new (as part of a go to market strategy) or existing as well as developing, managing and monitoring the performance and ensuring operational effectiveness.  To co-ordinate and organise the initiatives for the team and related stakeholders supporting the drive for success with regard to the initiatives.  Product managers will drive and chair the various initiatives themselves – this is more of a coordination role for effectiveness across the team.

Minimum Requirements    

• Commercial/Financial degree/Marketing degree or equivalent NQF level 7 or higher qualification is advantageous
• Marketing experience is essential
• At least 5 (five) years banking/insurance/lending advantageous
• At least 5 (five) years’ experience in products development and⁄or management
• Experience in Project Management is advantageous
• Experience in Retail is advantageous
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and the Internet
• Good communication, analytical and presentation skills

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Be the key provider in the FS/VAS team related to marketing, projects & agreements; providing coordination, organization, roadmap, operationalizing & management of related services for all products in the team across the categories.

• Define approach and structure for provision of this key function in conjunction with Senior Manager:  Financial & Value-Added Services & in collaboration Product Managers in the team and key internal stakeholders
• Own & manager key relationships with internal cross functional teams to ensure collaboration and execution of responsibilities.
• Influence key stakeholders for the benefit of the FS & VAS team strategic objectives
• Collaborate with IT partners, Product Managers, partners/providers & other stakeholders to:
• Build a FS/VAS projects planner/calendar which gives an overarching view; offering a single view, creating consistency across all projects and supporting enhance collaboration
• Ensure smooth rollout of projects and related feedback
• Develop and keep a continuously evolving list of potential initiatives across all products in FS/VAS, organized & categorized; from ideation to execution
• Collaborate with all the relevant stakeholders to develop business cases (and afterward, where required, the related business requirements) to be submitted for approval and maintain a library of said business cases
• Collaborate with Marketing partners, Product Managers, partners/providers & other stakeholders to
• Build a FS/VAS marketing calendar which dovetails with all other relevant calendars which gives an overarching view of team marketing efforts
• Support development of marketing effort required with Product Manager and ensure smooth rollout of said marketing effort
• Support Product Managers in evaluating marketing performance
• In conjunction with the Senior Manager: Financial and Value-Added Services & Product Managers – support the development of competitive responses to new market entrants as well as overall strategy plus the related tactics and operational elements to execute
• Provide relevant feedback & reporting as agreed with Senior Manager: Financial and Value-Added Services & Product Managers

Competencies    

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated
• Strong organizational & prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal & written
• Ability to interact with internal & external stakeholders at all levels
• Strong relationship management with resilience and some assertiveness
• Adaptable to change
• Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems
• Strong team player
• Collaboration and Networking

Additional Information    

• Competency based interview to assess above requirements
• Short-listed applicants may be subjected to relevant assessments