Innovation Manager at Wema Bank Plc

Job Summary

• The ideal candidate will interpret business strategy, identify innovative solutions, support strategy implementation, act as a strategic partner to other businesses and functions, contribute and influence strategic direction for the bank.

Responsibilities

• Interpret business strategy and identify innovative solutions supporting strategy implementation.
• Develop an Innovation Strategy that fits into the bank’s corporate strategy.
• Contribute and influence strategic direction for the bank.
• Act as a strategic partner to other businesses and functions to identify and implement innovation opportunities, new products/processes.
• Proposing innovative products and business models aimed at enhancing the bank’s offerings.
• Support critical functions in strategic decision-making and Go-to-Market process
• Design, research, develop, analyze, and suggest new concepts and strategies, introducing new products or services for internal and external customers.
• Support and influence the design and launch of value propositions that fulfil customer expectations.
• Design and model solutions for customer innovation and experience
• Manage and evaluate innovation portfolio and pipeline.
• Manage the bank’s headline innovation events.
• Coordinate all cross-functional activities, engage customers internally and collaborate with leaders across the bank on allocation of resources across key innovation initiatives.
• Shape learning and development of key skills and competencies supporting innovation across the organization.
• Reimagining the experience of new customers in relation to the company’s products and services
• Proposing and implementing new experiences for internal collaborators
• Providing best practices in strategic design for new products/services
• Defining the guidelines and policies that must be met in relation to innovation in the Bank.
• Implementing and leading the plan to create a culture of innovation in collaboration with Human Capital Management.
• Monitoring, analyzing, and communicating innovation metrics to senior management to seek opportunities to improve the company’s innovative performance.
• Analyzing internal processes or developments to turn them into profitable “products” for the market.

Requirements
Educational:

• Minimum requirement is a Bachelor’s Degree in any course from a reputable University.
• Certifications in Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Business Analysis and Product Management are an added advantage.

Other Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of Cross-industry experience:
• Fintech
• Non-financial technology Startups
• Venture Capital
• Accelerators and Hubs
• Banking.

Technical:

• Verbal and Written Communication
• Presentation Design & Delivery
• Strategy
• Market Research
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Analysis
• Product Design
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Entrepreneurial Drive
• Leadership.

Behavioral:

• Empathy
• Passion
• Curiosity.