Senior Business Development Manager

Catalyst Talent Strategy Consulting; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in Singapore seeks a Senior Business Development Manager to lead the development of Digital Finance Services. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the financial industry, excellent leadership and communication skills, and a strong understanding of digital technologies. Responsibilities include developing strategies, managing transformation projects, and engaging with key stakeholders in the financial sector. Competitive compensation and growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• 7-15 years of techno-functional experience in banks or in product development and pre-sales.
• Experience in managing transformation projects in the financial industry preferred.
• Strong operational experience in commercial/retail banking or Fintech.

Responsibilities

• Develop digital finance strategy and build services for the APAC region.
• Lead the end-to-end strategy, design, and implementation of product roadmap.
• Engage and influence key C-level leaders in financial institutions.

Skills

Digital Finance Strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Data Science

Leadership

Communication skills

Sales and business development

Analytical skills

Education

Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

Tools

Blockchain

AI

IoT

Job description

About the job Senior Business Development Manager

About the Client

The client is a well-know MNC from Japan. Its fifth research center aims to speed up the time-to-market of new technologies that help contribute to the resolution of a broad range of business and social concerns.

Overview

The person will be responsible to deliver the business objectives set by Value Chain Innovation Lab. He/She will lead the development of new Digital Finance Service. Work in partnership with solution delivery teams, eco system players, and our customers in financial industry to deliver technology solutions for end customers.

Job Descriptions

Develop digital finance strategy and build services accordingly for countries within the APAC coverage:

• Responsible for end-to-end strategy, design and implementation of product roadmap for the digital finance.
• Develop effective strategies to grow the digital finance business. Identify opportunities, generate proposals, and serve as an evangelist and Fintech subject matter expert both internally and externally.
• Lead the team to focus on customer outcomes by best leveraging technologies available, such as data science, ML, AI etc.
• Connect digital investments to enterprise KPIs to drive digital transformation.
• Engage, lead and influence key C-level leaders at financial institutions on the need for digital finance. Develop and hold relationships with key influencers in the Fintech ecosystem.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to quickly execute MVP hypothesis and verification cycle to develop Data Driven SaaS model products.
• Discover, capture and report patterns and learnings from the field about challenges and opportunities related to Digital Finance.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Information Technolgy or its equivalent..
• 7-15 years of techno functional experience in banks, product development and pre-sales.
• Experience in managing transformation projects in financial industry preferable.
• Understanding of technical architect.
• Experience in the design and development of scalable and high-performance solutions.
• Knowledge of any of the emerging technologies such as Blockchain, IoT, AI, etc.
• Experience in implementation of Design Concepts, Patterns and Principles.
• Knowledge of different software development life cycle.
• Ability to engage with the client in technology discussions.
• Excellent leadership, communication skills, and team player..
• Strong operational and working experience in financial services space especially in commercial / retail banking and Fintech related with loan, credit scoring and fraud prevention etc, or an area of InsurTech/ Ristech for Insurance businesses, or other financial area.
• Have customer-facing business experience including sales, marketing, business development responsibilities.
• Understanding of financial services products and underlying business processes.
• Familiar with financial industry trend, global & local legal and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Have strong communication to engage all stakeholders and drive the digital agenda.
• Understand digital technology trends and the role of data. Able to comprehend and drive outcome-based solutions using the evolution of digital compute power and availability of data.
• Should be self-motivated and pro-active in identifying new opportunities on the established accounts. Be a team player with focus on winning as one team, and the ability to lead and take the team to the next level.
• Possess analytical and problem-solving skills - proven ability to execute as an individual contributor in the face of ambiguity and limited resources, and to shift priorities with quantitative and analytical skills.

About Us

Catalyst Talent Strategy Consulting is an executive search firm thatis specialized in providing recruitment solution for our clients. Weare registered with MOM in 2016.