Fintech Project Manager


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15th June 2017

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London

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Negotiable

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Negotiable

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Fintech Project Manager

6 months

Market rate

London

Start ASAP

Scope of work:

An exciting opportunity has arisen in my clients Innovation Labs team in Innovation and Digital Development. The Innovation and Digital Development team play a pivotal role in building the future digital competitive advantage for my client - to transform the companies capability to be the best bank for customers, to drive new and protect existing revenue and to drive a low cost operating model.

Key Responsibilities

* Create innovation options for the future of the company on the business lines, and the requirements for technology enablement, via thought leadership, research papers and insights into market trends

* Source and prioritise the innovation opportunities that will deliver benefit to the Group and business areas, define strategies for acceleration, ensure alignment of innovation activities with the company strategy, and monitor performance against objectives

* Operate the X-labs capability, unearthing and testing new concepts to move further along the disruptive innovation landscape

* Forge and maintain relationships with senior internal and external business and thought leaders in the Fintech ecosystem, leveraging these relationships when new opportunities for partnerships are identified

* Stakeholder Management - Builds and maintains external and internal networks to identify best practice and to build the profile of the Innovation community

* People and Self Development - Leads, motivates and develops team members to create a high performing team. Contributes to the development and performance of the wider Innovation community, including identifying opportunities for colleagues in line with future skill and resourcing requirements and sharing best practice approaches

* Innovation - Facilitates innovation in a range of settings and in relation to a variety of products, customer segments and/or technologies. Leads innovation process outside of own field of content expertise. Contributes to external events and thinking about innovation, is seen as a thought leader.

* Research and Inform - supports the Portfolio Management strategy, applying expertise in fintech and the digital landscape as well as insight into research outputs and market trends to shape accordingly. Anticipates and escalates market developments that could negatively impact the company to senior stakeholders, and manages portfolio to address these

* Form and Leverage Networks - Forges and maintains relationships with senior internal and external business and thought leaders in order to remain at the forefront of new developments in the FS and fintech industry, and leverages these relationships when new opportunities for partnerships are identified

* Strategic Thinking -benchmarks externally to provide innovative and leading edge products and services to the client, to drive internal performance and to reshape and align the organisations strategy to changing market dynamics. Understands and drives the changes in strategy needed to meet new challenges in the industry. Identifies strategic alliances needed to achieve global objectives

* Digital Perspective - Passionate about the potential opportunities offered by digital and the wider economy. Keeps up-to-date with suppliers, partners, competitors, new entrants, regulations for digital business. Looks beyond financial services to review innovation and trends in other digital sectors. Liaises with external parties e.g. regulators, BBA and others to shape the digital agenda across the industry and explore how innovations will impact this

* Influence Stakeholders - Positively influences senior stakeholders to secure funding. Recognised internally and externally as an SME in the area of innovation investment and the digital / fintech start-up environment. Advises leaders and produces insights and thought leadership

Spring Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Spring Technology is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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