Applications are now open for the exciting new role of Portfolio Manager: Business Lending. The Portfolio Manager will form part of an innovative Fintech team who serve the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) industry, and wll take ownership of an unsecured lending product. The Portfolio Manager will handle functions across the value chain through client insights, product enhancements, stakeholder engagement, and take accountability for product profitability and overall performance.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managing day to day to deliver product performance and profitability
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams spanning Marketing, Sales, IT, and CX to scale the product so that year-on-year growth targets are achieved
- Owning the execution of the Unsecured Business Lending marketplace
- Creating new products and features to enhance the business value proposition and ensuring requisite scale is achieved
- Identifying and managing potential third-party product partners and negotiating commercial positions with them
- Providing insights to the broader team around innovation and developments within the Business Lending and Fintech industry and setting up business cases for evaluation of new ideas
- Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly product performance reports and presentations for senior and executive management
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric and relevant 3 to 4 year business degree
- At least 8 years’ experience in product development
- Experience in fintech or business lending product design
- Strong understanding of the fintech and lending industry
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements
- Experience building, launching and scaling SME lending products