Prime Financial Services - Product Development - Vice President

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job description

Job Summary

As a Product Development Vice President within Prime Financial Services, you will be involved in building out our Product strategy, leading initiatives to improve existing product sets, or even create new ones from scratch by working closely with other teams throughout the organization supporting the Prime Financial Services business.

Job Responsibilities

• Be the sole point of contact and escalation point for all product, technology, and operational inquiries related to assigned projects.
• Lead Securities Financing projects on behalf of the business from inception through to implementation, ultimately accountable for meeting these mandates.
• Identify profitable, efficient product enhancement concepts that reflect revenue opportunities.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver effective strategic solutions, on time, and on budget.
• Ensure the product investment is clearly aligned to commercial business objectives.
• Partner in creating the product road map, defining the business requirements and managing sponsored deliverables throughout the development cycle, ensuring tangible and successful end-to-end delivery.
• Be responsible and accountable for ongoing client-facing product positioning against key competitors.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Strong experience in product management.
• Experience in Securities Financing or at least the wider Prime Brokerage business.
• Partner with business stakeholders to determine the business goals that clients want to achieve and the products/processes that will support those goals.
• Ability to think strategically in designing end-to-end solutions, re-engineering business and operational processes as required.
• The role requires a logical mind, perseverance, the ability to communicate ideas well, and the ability to effectively target messages to different audiences.
• Gather information through process mapping, flow-charting, data analysis, and make recommendations to meet product objectives and workshops to determine and develop improved process engineering, prepare presentations.
• Lead programs across multiple streams of work simultaneously while balancing the business, client, and regulatory needs versus budgetary pressures.
• Empower team members and functional partners to succeed and deliver value-added solutions to the business.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Experience and passion for developing new solutions and creative problem solving and solid judgment/decision making.
• Product Owner experience within an Agile Technology environment, including managing priorities on a Product Backlog.
• Ownership mentality with the ability to break down barriers to achieve results.
• Ability to easily switch priorities and day-to-day activities based on clients'/company’s needs.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can manage and execute across competing deliverables and fast learner who can operate in an ambiguous environment.
• Leverage data-driven methods to evaluate business processes and propose improvements and/or solutions.