Product Manager

Job Description

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion. At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations. We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

Job Overview

As a Product Manager at Emirates NBD, your role is to contribute significantly to the funds and ETFs offering of the bank. This includes supporting the team with origination, due diligence, monitoring and sales delivery of all funds and ETFs available through various channels along with associated ongoing platform enhancements and managing data for the team and the unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify product needs for all customer segments across Retail Banking and Wealth Management working in conjunction with segment and channel leads and eliminate product gaps in the product/service offering. Continuously innovate and identify ideas that align with the house view and client needs.
• Proactively develop, implement and manage new product innovations in order to deliver revenue growth, e.g. discretionary fund model portfolios for regular and lumpsum contributions.
• Leverage relationships with asset managers for teach-ins, events and other sales activities.
• Active engagement with front office teams via in person interactions and email updates.
• Increase funds penetration within client portfolios by demonstrating quality of range and sales engagement.
• Leverage data to generate actionable insights on product range.
• Constantly review and increase rebate levels wherever possible.
• Improve processes/ automate where possible, reduce TATs on various activities; Also take ownership of various sundry tasks that require the desk’s involvement on a day-to-day basis.
• Explore new ways of delivering educational/sales content to advisors / Relationship Managers / clients.
• Engage with internal stakeholders for platform enhancements and leveraging the bank’s digital capabilities.
• Respond to all internal/external audits/requests accurately and completely.
• Follow agreed policies, procedures and guidelines prescribed by control functions and regulatory bodies.
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Postgraduate in Finance from a globally reputed university.
• CFA Charterholder
• Minimum 2 years experience in fund selection/due diligence/investment products at market leading institutions.
• Strong knowledge of global mutual funds, market trends, regulatory requirements, distribution best practices, investments and portfolio management including asset allocation, portfolio construction and performance attribution.
• Understanding of funds due diligence and onboarding best practices in a wealth management/private banking context.
  
  

What We Offer You

• Competitive salary package
• Strong emphasis on work/life balance
• Generous annual leave entitlement and Private Healthcare
• World-class Learning & Development platform and career development
• Preferential banking facilities for employees
  
  

Why Join Us

We aspire to be an employee’s employer of choice. We believe, we can help you realize your true potential by providing the right opportunities. At ENBD we are reimagining the future of work so that you can unlock your potential, every day we want to ensure, every employee can exceed in the future of work by upskilling, building new digital skills and knowledge. Our goal is to empower our employees to build a career experiences and skills they need in the future and that will produce a great outcome for our bank as well, we want our employees no matter their background, location, preferences to feel engaged to one ENBD team.

At ENBD, we encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. ENBD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, however due to high volume of applicants only SHORTLISTED candidates will be contacted. “