Product Manager Payment/Acquiring

Job Description

In the Payments tribe, we have the ambition to offer to our clients a smart, personalized, seamless, and reliable payment experience through various means and channels.

Payments are the daily touchpoint that allows our clients to stay in control of their finances and are therefore in the heart of the bank and of our channels. Our Customer Journey Experts (CJEs) collaborate continuously with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to innovate, develop, maintain, and improve top-notch products and processes taking all requirements and risks into consideration.

Our tribe is composed of 5 closely collaborating areas: Payments & Reporting, Cards & Merchant services, Digital Flows, Cash Management and Interbank & Orchestration.

In this stimulating environment, you will be joining the Merchant services & Mobile payment area covering multiple products such as Ecommerce, Point of Sales, SofPOS, European payment initiative (Wero) and Payconiq. The focus of the position will be, amongst other activities, on the elaboration and the management of Point of Sales, SofPOS & Ecommerce payment solutions and promotions.

We are looking for an enthusiastic CJE ready to take the challenge of innovating in the domain of acquiring and enhance the business of our client in getting paid digitally.

So, if you are passionate about clients, eager to deal with digital concepts, willing to learn every day, ready to step in a cool squad and deal with ambitious and exciting projects, the following may interest you…

Your key responsibilities

• Understand the clients’ expectations, the product and the digital landscape allowing us to offer excellent digital customer experience.
• Be able to promote the product through internal and external channels.
• Be able to understand IT architecture and design to support the development of products and resolve issues.
• Be able to help the DevOps squad to overcome impediments by looking to creative and constructive alternatives.
• Be able to identify the products needs from analysis or requirement and translate them to stakeholders like IT, customer support, Risks, Sales, …
• Understand and apply business principles and external regulations.
• Take responsibility of customer journeys implementation from the idea to the purchase and servicing, including refinement, solution definition, project follow-up, stakeholders/dependency management, testing, best in class risk management, alignments with segments, etc.
• Actively contribute your skills and competencies to our multi-disciplinary self-steering teams
• Independently manage your own workstream(s) as part of the team’s project(s)
• Manage your internal and external stakeholders in terms of expectations, dependencies, buy-in and make sure the delivered solution fit the customers’ needs

We look for

A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making ithappen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems. You can work autonomously and are proactive in taking up new tasks by yourself.

As a CJE you are / have:

• Proven experience in digital project
• Experience in Acquiring/payments domain
• Experience in marketing, product promotion, Sales
• Experience with building partnerships
• Experience in managing partners and stakeholders
• Loving to collaborate with people and be able to motivate, empower, challenge and stimulate them
• Strong analytical and investigation skills
• Capable of acquiring a good functional understanding of automated processes and computer systems (understanding of the IT landscape, API, able to read sequence diagrams, …)
• Able to understand the bigger picture
• Able of coordinating changes with several intervening parties
• Proven planning & organizational skills
• Passionate about innovation and new market trends
• Able to work in an autonomous way, to take initiative and to take decisions
• Making things happen thanks to your ‘can do’ attitude
• Problem solving mindset
• Keen to learn fast
• Entrepreneur attitude
• Fluent in English and at least one of the national languages (NL preferred)
• Master degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

We offer you

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realise your ambitions
• An informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours
• A progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention
• The support of your Product Lead to help you grow as a CJE