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Senior Lead, Financial Innovation
Posted 2 weeks ago
About the role
- Lead financial innovation initiatives at Export Development Canada, focusing on product strategy and development. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver value-added products for clients and partners.
Responsibilities
- Design and/or operate systems that leverage internal and external data to monitor, analyze, and assess product performance, effectiveness, relevance, and strategic alignment with business strategy.
- Lead thorough, structured product reviews by connecting product performance with customer and user needs, market trends, competitive context, risks, and opportunities to produce actionable recommendations.
- Identify and evaluate options to improve, reposition, consolidate, transition, or retire products, conducting clear analyses of benefits, risks, impacts, dependencies, and trade-offs.
- Lead product discovery and innovation ideation activities, including collecting, aggregating, and prioritizing ideas; developing hypotheses; performing market intelligence; and validating customer, partner, and market needs.
- Define, with business teams, product vision, strategic direction, and roadmap considerations while ensuring alignment with EDC priorities and product and portfolio strategies.
- Develop forward-looking analyses, options, recommendations, and decision-support materials to inform prioritization, investment choices, and strategic direction for products and initiatives.
- Communicate market trends, strategic insights, and product adoption signals to guide roadmap priorities and foster a shared understanding of product strategy impacts.
- Lead collaboration with subject matter experts and cross-functional partners to gather requirements, define product parameters and design considerations, and determine implementation modalities, including operational readiness and scalability requirements.
- Design and implement new or enhanced financial products by assessing client needs, user experience (UX), pricing, risk profile, financial impacts, operational integration, and readiness requirements.
- Coordinate and oversee pilots, launch readiness, and go-to-market activities, including objectives, tasks, success metrics, dependencies, and adoption considerations.
- Integrate EDC’s risk management frameworks, policies, guidelines, and governance expectations into product design, development, monitoring, and lifecycle decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in commerce, business administration, finance, marketing, or a related field.
- Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in product management, product development, innovation, solution delivery, or financial services.
- Deep knowledge of financial products, including financing, insurance, guarantees, equity investments, and international trade.
- Strong financial, analytical, strategic, and research skills, with the ability to turn internal and external insights into options, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
- Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, and influencing executive-level and cross-functional audiences.
- Customer-focused approach and ability to design financial products that deliver value for clients and users in a cross-functional environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package: EDC offers a competitive compensation and benefits program, strong work-life balance, and the opportunity to help build a better Canada and world through trade.
- Work-life balance: Competitive compensation and work-life balance offerings, including flexible hybrid work options, three to four weeks of vacation, a company shutdown period, shortened summer Fridays, and no-meeting Fridays.
- Professional development: Access continuous learning opportunities, including training programs, workshops, and language training.
- Inclusive culture: Join a diverse and inclusive workplace committed to employment equity and that values a diversity of ideas, strengths, and backgrounds to drive success.
- Wellness programs: We offer wellbeing initiatives, mental health support, and fitness programs to support your health and wellbeing.
- Community investment: Participate in volunteer activities and give back through a range of corporate social responsibility programs.
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