Job Description
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the team
You will be a leader working within the Wealth & Retirement Solutions team, which is focused on building and maintaining best-in-class products, capabilities and services to support our global enterprise customers' needs.
Our vision is to create services that are vital for the industry's largest and fastest-growing organizations to achieve predictable, profitable revenue streams. You will be central to this vision.
As a Senior Level Product Manager with a focus on our Wealth solutions, you will be an internal and external champion driving the creation and market penetration of wealth products that provide top and bottom-line benefits to many of the largest financial institutions in the world. This role will be heavily focused on product management, supporting commercial and propositional growth and maintaining a broad market view as well as establishing and cultivating product relationships with FIS's partners.
What you will be doing
You will be responsible for:
Leading Wealth's Core processing solutions for customers

• Building an integrated view of customer needs, market trends and competitive position
• Assessing customer and business requirements - consolidating views from market experts, sales, and top-tier financial institutions
• Identifying areas of commercial value and defining product propositions built on solid business cases
• Identifying areas where we need to complement FIS Wealth capabilities with potential partners, managing relationships and commercial agreements with those partners
• Leading the development of a Wealth product roadmap
• Make build / buy trade-offs where applicable
• Lead product relationships with FIS's key partner relationships
• Drive simplification of technology stack through the domain transformation work working with technology partners
• May require up to 25% travel

Provide cross functional leadership & customer advocacy for new Wealth product developments

• Interpreting the needs of the business into new capabilities
• Leading decision-making and development prioritization via thorough analysis and recommendations
• Ensure business stability, growth and enhanced product profitability

Enable the organization with the knowledge and tools to drive commercial success

• Work with go-to-market and Sales Enablement teams to deliver go-to-market strategy with clear customer segmentation, targeting and positioning
• Transferring product expertise across the organization with expert product training and advocacy
• Ensure the maintenance and accuracy of product information, effectively updating internal channels

Support the organization with expert knowledge of our products' technical and commercial capabilities

• Be the lead contact for commercial teams across the portfolio
• Supporting proposition queries by engaging with the sales team and top tier customers
• Maintain advanced knowledge of trends in the industry
• Attend and present on behalf of FIS at industry events

Team Leadership

• Build and develop an engaged, high performing team
• Develop and coach team members to fulfil their potential
• Structure the organization to optimize execution, delivery and engagement
• Define optimized collaboration mechanisms with the broader organization

What you bring:

• Exceptional business acumen
• Familiarity with the management of the product life cycle from inception, development to post-launch in order to support the sales cycle, and ability to gauge performance against original business case, enhance to meet evolving market needs, and, if/when applicable, drive toward ultimate sunset.
• Prior experience -- 5+ years -- in the wealth industry, with demonstrable understanding of major trends and solutions in this space
• Experience working with third party partners
• Experience in delivering capabilities for large cross-border enterprise merchants
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in complex technical detail and also aggregate key points in a direct, impactful manner for non-technical and executive audiences
• Proven ability to provide direct supervision to experienced professional-level individual contributors across multiple geographic regions

Skills

• Excellent influencing skills, working with functional areas across an organization including sales, operations, delivery and technology teams
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• First-class commercial and analytical skills
• Excellent partner management, relationship management skills with external providers
• Outstanding presentation skills, comfortable presenting to customers and internal teams and public (external) audiences via webinars and/or conference presentations.
• Financial acumen and analytical skills to support decision-making process
• Proven skills in data analysis and use of data to create process efficiencies, enhance products, address complex customer problems and/or identify and capture new revenue opportunities

Personality

• Strong leadership, motivational and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to challenge others in a constructive manner
• Highly self-motivated with a strong will to win, ability to take ownership and desire to drive for optimal business results
• A strong team player, comfortable collaborating with and coordinating the efforts of cross-functional colleagues amongst all levels of the organization
• Data driven approach to problem solving and ability to influence others
• Intellectual curiosity and genuine interest in the ever-changing dynamics of markets and a complex, global industry
• A self-starter with a can-do attitude who can operate with minimal direct/daily supervision
• Ability to adapt to and embrace frequent change with a positive attitude along with the ability to pivot quickly while incurring minimal impact to overall timelines

Added bonus if you have:

• MBA a plus.
• Experience in Software as a Service
• Experience managing product development with an agile methodology, e.g. SAFe, with competence utilizing project management software (e.g. Rally/Clarity) to write concise user stories to communicate with the delivery teams and to ensure feasibility.

What we offer you

• Competitive salary and attractive benefits
• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
• Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset

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For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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