Senior Manager - Product Owner - Financial Services

As the Senior Manager of Product Management Financial Services at Publicis Sapient, you act as a trusted advisor to your clients, ensuring the implementation of solutions in complex corporate environments. You understand your client's business, work closely with them to steer extensive Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements, and deliver continuous value with rapid increment cycles.

You assemble teams with different capabilities such as Strategy, Experience, Engineering, and Data. You guide them in creating proposals and presenting corresponding offerings to the market. Customer focus is always a priority.

Together with your team, you lead and participate in project delivery, including solution design, effort estimations, plans, risk assessments, and ensuring project progress tracking.

You create a positive team environment and culture through coaching and fostering individual development and performance standards.

You ensure your team's focus on results and have the expertise to make these results measurable.

You anticipate with foresight how the Financial Services market is evolving.

Experience

• You have 8+ years of experience and in-depth knowledge in Product Management in the Financial Services sector.
• You have proven expertise in delivering complex consulting projects, where you have led agile teams on a large scale. You have demonstrated success in working with C-level stakeholders.
• You have deep experience in business analysis, business change, and documenting requirements to produce specifications for any new or changed technology and business solutions.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and moderation skills.
• Structured problem-solving skills, logical thinking, ability to develop new ideas, conceive new approaches and solutions.
• Experience coaching and mentoring individuals, continuously focusing on personal and professional learning and growth.
• You are expected to have a proven track record in identifying and driving business origination, working autonomously to connect with clients and prospects, supporting offerings and market campaigns, and capturing opportunities based on ongoing delivery (farming) and new client discussions (hunting). Proactivity and a growth mindset are mandatory.

• Deep understanding of the critical success factors, latest trends, and business models in the financial services industry.
• Strong understanding of products and processes in Financial Services with proven experience in banking processes, encompassing front-office and back-office operations and processes such as lending, mortgages, business banking, payments, and transaction accounts.
• Innovative product development mindset and delivery experience in customer-centric solutions.

Publicis Sapient (PS) is a digital transformation partner helping our clients transform the way they serve their customers and the way their teams work by using the power of digital. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. As digital pioneers with 22,000+ people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.