Trade & Working Capital- Structured Working Capital Product Delivery - Executive Director

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking an experienced Product Delivery Executive Director to enhance product journeys and mentor the delivery team. You will manage key activities in the product lifecycle and champion change management across functional partners. The ideal candidate has a strong background in Supply Chain Finance, excellent operational management skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with senior management. This role involves working during both India and US hours.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering products, projects, or technology applications.
• Extensive experience leading operational management and large scale projects.
• Deep understanding of the Supply Chain Finance and Receivables Finance business.

Responsibilities

• Directs all activities of the product delivery journey.
• Owns the change management framework for functional partners.
• Maintains visibility over product timelines and dependencies.

Skills

Delivery of products

Operational management

Change management

Strong communication

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Bring your expertise to shape and enhance the journey of products from inception to our customers' hands. Mentor a dedicated team and lead key activities across the product life cycle, turning challenges into opportunities for continuous value and delivery.

As a Product Delivery Executive Director in Structured Working Capital, you foster enhancements and optimize the way products are delivered to customers. As a leader on the team, you leverage your skillset to transform product delivery and create new ways for teams to continuously deliver value to their customers.

Job responsibilities

• Directs principal activities across the end-to-end product delivery journey including intake, dependency management, release management, product operationalization, delivery feasibility decision-making, and product performance reporting, while highlighting opportunities to improve efficiencies and functional coordination
• Owns the change management framework across functional partners and ensures adherence to the firm’s risk, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Maintains a high level of visibility over product timelines and dependencies while monitoring blockers, ensuring adequate resourcing, and liaising with stakeholders and functional partners
• Coaches and mentors the product delivery team on best practices through collaborative discussions on resource management, dependency management, and deployment techniques to improve efficiencies
• Interfaces directly with the product technology teams; orchestrating platform enhancements and ensuring quality among technical delivery.
• Advocate of the SWC business; prioritizing quality value add platform enhancements while working under the limitations of capacity constraints – creating the art of the possible.
• Manages a team of highly effective application product owners; load balancing work among the team members and spearheading the team during senior management meetings
• Provides project management governance and leads regular project management calls to ensure visibility of project progress.
• Responsible for refining deliverable statements and epic refinement as aligned to the Structured Working Capital six quarter roadmap.
• First point of contact for the business for enhancement refinements and existing platform capabilities.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant level of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications .
• Extensive experience leading operational management and change readiness ; including running large scale technology projects.
• Deep understanding of the Supply Chain Finance and Receivables Finance business is a must.
• Experience in enterprise-wide release and deployment processes and strategie s.
• Exposure to market available third party applications as value added enhancements to SWC’s proprietary applications.
• Strong communication skills and comfortable presenting to TWC senior management.
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, six quarter roadmap refinements and data analytics
• Required to work part of the day during India hours as well as part of the day during US hours

P referred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Recognized thought leader within a related field ; Fintech experience is preferred but not a must
• PMP / Six Sigma qualifications are preferred however not required.
• Masters degree is preferred; Bachelor’s degree is required
• Knowledge of other trade and working capital products desired, but not mandatory
• Understanding of other languages is desired, not a must.