Business Venture Manager Tanzania

Department:

People & Change Tanzania

Job type:

Permanent

Closing date:

10-Feb-15

Reference Number:

130-PEO00389

The Company

Our client is a leading commercial bank in Tanzania with a regional presence. They value the principles of good banking-strong capitalization, liquidity, risk diversification, conservative lending policies, investment in service delivery channels and customer experience orientation. They therefore wish to recruit a Business Venture Manager.

Roles & Responsibilities

This role will facilitate the execution of New Business Venture’s business strategy, in Tanzania. The role is a change driver, accountable for the identification and development of new business opportunities and management of stakeholder relationships with support from the Delivery Manager in NBV Kenya. The role shall also own the NBV partner engagement model for all business partners that NBV shall engage with. These partnerships are critical to NBV’s business model to develop and enhance a value-chain that is effective and efficient in delivering customer value. The Business Venture Manager will report to the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking.

The Business Venture Manager will be accountable and responsible for, among others to:
•Executes the bank's project governance framework and is manage the design and execution of all strategic initiatives for the assigned country/region;
•Establish a control framework that proactively monitors and reports on project execution against the defined metrics and policy/best –practice, responding effectively to noted deviations against established project governance standards;
•Drive new business development, to identify and develop proposals for enhancing customer value and retaining earned value for the bank, with new products/services and channels;
•Build and maintain a partner network of suppliers and co-innovators to promote the strategic positioning and competencies of the bank;
•Ensure customer focus within the function, attaining a strong rating in customer and stakeholder surveys;
•Ensure effective client communication to assure alignment of customer and partner engagement to business strategy;
•Contribute to the innovation framework within the business line to facilitate the systematic generation, selection and implementation of value adding ideas;
•Ensure operational excellence to attain and maintain best-in-class QOS;
•Regulatory engagement to assure compliance to regulation and positively influence the bank-regulator relationship; 

Requirements

•Bachelors/Master’s degree in relevant professional qualification in banking and accounting or finance or quantitative field or business from a reputable institution;
•Professional qualification in Project Management is an advantage e.g. Prince II;
•Experience with business analysis, project management or product development;
•Preferably a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in highly automated environment, including at least 3 years in Business Analysis and/or Project Management related areas. 

Additional Information

A competitive package will be offered depending on the experience and qualifications of the successful applicant.

 

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