Senior Product Innovation Consultant | London, UK

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Formally Market Advocacy and Innovation Research the Digital Assets and Financial Markets (DAFM) group leverages intelligence and research to support new opportunities to drive profitable business growth and promote the next-generation enterprise operating model and client service solutions, focusing predominantly on digital assets.

Within DAFM there is a group of product owners responsible for execution and delivery of opportunities at all levels of maturity, from proof of concept to product.

The selected candidate will be responsible for the development of new solutions using new technologies, gathering and analysing information of external technology firms, and monitoring market participants and how they develop and deliver new innovative solutions.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Understanding the FinTech marketplace - innovations and trends in Financial Technologies.
• Understanding the expected outcomes of the innovation deliverable and monitor the outcomes to ensure value for investment.
• Identifying new technology or individual firms that could provide new product opportunities for Northern Trust.
• Development of the business case for the PoC, MVP or Product Development of the innovative solutions.
• Building a broad internal and external network of partners that can help deliver solutions.
• Understanding the reason for the innovative development and the benefits it will deliver for NT, these may be financial, reputational and / or knowledge improvement.
• Management of the resources needed to deliver to the scope. Getting the best from the small teams and working together with external partners to deliver to the requirements.
• Delivering programs of work for the broader DAFM team where you are acting more as Resource Manager than program owner. Ensure that the owner is clear on the responsibilities and that you deliver to the agreed program needs.
• Informing the bank's strategic approach to technical innovation, investments and developments.
• Identifying and framing new business opportunities.
• Acts as the innovation expert and participate in client and prospect discussions.
• Responsible for the legal and regulatory understanding of any new solution and ensuring full clarity prior to development.

The ideal candidate should have a fair amount of the following skills and experience:

• A broad understanding of new and external technologies.
• Wide ranging views on ALL types of technology firms (not just FinTech).
• Desire and ability to look at and deliver new ways of meeting the needs - not just improving the old but delivering new ways to meets needs and problems.
• Project delivery expertise e.g. Prior experience in Program Management / Product Ownership / Business Analyst.
• Familiarity and experience with Agile / Waterfall methodology.
• Proven track record of delivering change programs successfully.
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomacy skills.
• Good communication skills; verbal, non-verbal and written.
• Effective presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Effective analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to work constructively and resourcefully under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate why we should engage with certain external firms and the positive outcomes for Northern Trust.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.