Managing Director, Payments Technology at Global Career Company Company

Global Career Company Company – Our client in the payments business, with the strength of a regional financial giant behind it, is targeting top spot in payments within Nigeria first, and then across the region.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Managing Director, Payments Technology

Location: Lagos

Key Responsibilities

• Shaping the strategy for the new Payments company (with management of the Group Holdco), identifying revenue-generating models, and identifying potential partnerships to acquire customers and scale the business
• Developing an implementation roadmap for the strategy, including shaping thinking on roll-out of products and solutions, overall IT architecture, organizational needs, and customer acquisition/retention strategy
• Ensure the new business has clearly defined metrics to evaluate success and continuous, measurable improvement
• Building the organization for the new business. This would include designing the organizational structure, identifying capabilities required, prioritizing immediate positions to be filled, and leading the recruiting process.
• Launch the new business including
• Leading a team to design and deliver innovative products, and re-imagine customer journeys
• Leading a team to drive customer attraction, retention, and increased revenues through digital platforms and physical channels (where applicable)
• Leading formation of new partnerships to drive growth
• Keep track of key developments in the digital, data, and payments space to continually identify new ideas, solutions that could provide opportunities for the business to accelerate growth ambitions.
• Implement measures to drive consistency in the delivery of amazing customer experience across all channels and touch points
• Lead by example to build a culture that is agile, digital and innovation driven.

Requirements

Skills and knowledge:

• A minimum of First Degree or its equivalent in any discipline (additional qualification in any business-related discipline would be an advantage)
• Ability to develop new creative concepts and then take them from discovery phase through to delivery.
• Ability to think as a customer, to anticipate new customer needs and to further develop the range of services
• Proven determination, ability to show persuasiveness and leadership in difficult situations
• Successfully demonstrated analytical and conceptual knowledge and a highly efficient and structured work method
• Strong network in the global digital and payments community.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years post-graduation experience, out of which, at least, 5 must have been in the financial services industry and at least, 3 at the senior management level
• Deep experience and business acumen in the payments industry and an understanding of its digital and technology needs and potential future (APIs, machine learning, AI etc.)
• Experience in an entrepreneurial setting, ideally in a technology start-up, with a demonstrated ability to build a vision and strategy for a digital-enabled business, recruit a team, and launch programs / products / services.
• Experience in Africa or other emerging market is preferred, having preferably already managed the complexity of a “corporate role”, that goes from developing the strategic framework till delivering innovative ideas /digital solutions and execution
• Track record of scaling up fast growing start-up operations either at team, division or company level.

Attributes:

• Collaborative and strong capacity to partner with multiple players (e.g. vendors, regulators, management of other business lines etc.)
• Open-minded, with a track record of thinking differently and comfortable exploring perspectives outside traditional banking norms and conventions
• Strong belief in technology and the role of data analytics in driving decision making and business value
• Possesses a growth mindset at the personal and business level
• Entrepreneurial and dogged in terms of targets and ambition
• High energy levels and cultural openness.
• Good standing and assertiveness, with excellent teamwork attitude, with proven ability to influence and coordinate team beyond his/her own department.

Application Closing Date
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