Senior Vice President Commercial Lending

Role-Product HeadDomain-LendingExp-18+Location-MumbaiThe Head of Product Management is a senior leadership position reporting into the Business Head Lending. He/she is responsible for end to end Product Management, This role will oversee the productmanagement team, ensuring the successful development, launch, and optimizationof Lending suite of products that meet market and customer demands thereby meetingbusiness goals. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of Lendingdomain, product lifecycle management, ability to work in collaborative environment anda proven track record in lending product development and/or implementation.

This roleneed to work closely with the business head and engineering, pre-sales, delivery functions. Key Accountabilities1. Product Leadership: •

• Define and implement the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Lendingproduct in alignment with business goals.
• Lead market research and analysis to identify market trends, customer needs,and business landscape in the Lending domain
• Collaborate with executive leadership to set strategic priorities and make data-driven decisions.2.

Product Development with Quality Focus

• Oversee the entire Lending product development lifecycle from concept to launch,ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensurealignment and successful product rollouts.
• Get the product build and released which will involve creating solution landscape,user stories, creating and reviewing test plan etc
• Manage the product portfolio, making decisions on product enhancements,releases, and sunsets.
• Key focus on product quality from functional, technical and usability perspectives
• Handle product documentation and presentations.
• Understand non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance,integration and security etc.3.

Team Management:

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing product management team withlending SMEs
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, promoting professional growthand development.
• Set performance goals, conduct regular evaluations, and provide feedback toteam members.
• Develop accountability processes where leaders and Associates are held accountablefor building a culture of accountability that sustains excellence.4.

Customer Focus:

• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and pain points through directinteractions with both customers and delivery teams.
• Understand the needs of implementation including expectations from product,handle modernization projects from product perspective.
• Ensure products deliver exceptional user experiences and meet or exceedcustomer expectations.
• Lead solutioning workshops with customer.

Get customer alignment on solutionscope.

• Understand localization, interfacing and regulatory needs
• Advocate for the customer in all product-related decisions.5.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration:

• Communicate product vision, strategy, and updates to internal and externalstakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as the product evangelist both internally and externally6.

Performance Tracking:

• Define and monitor key product metrics to evaluate performance and drivecontinuous improvement.
• Utilize data analytics to inform product decisions and measure success.
• Prepare and present regular reports on product performance and strategicinitiatives.

Key Skill Requirements1. Very strong lending domain expertise across origination, servicing and collectionmanagement areas in retail, corporate and Islamic lending2. Good understanding of multiple markets, Fintechs, regulatory requirements in differentregions.3.

Proven experience in developing / implementing Lending product.4. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.5. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.6.

Ability to lead and inspire teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.7. Deep understanding of market research, product lifecycle, and agilemethodologies. Key Outputs1.

Actual product capability against product vision2. Customer and market acceptance of the product3. Attainment of product business goals

Information :

• Company : Intellect Design Arena Ltd
• Position : Senior Vice President Commercial Lending
• Location : Mumbai, Mahārāshtra
• Country : IN