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Rabobank

Cooperative bank offering retail, wholesale services

Business Lending Strategy & Integration Lead

Corporate StrategyPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeUtrecht, Netherlands

About the Job

Requirements

  • Academic work-and-thinking level.
  • Extensive experience in a senior product, business integration, or transformation role, with demonstrable expertise spanning Business Lending, product management, and technology.
  • Demonstrable experience with financing products, lending chains, and the Business Lending proposition.
  • Ability to translate external developments into strategic choices and change initiatives within a complex organization.
  • Experience handling complex stakeholder issues, roadmaps, and dependencies.
  • Experience working with external technology and business partners.
  • An outside-in perspective and ability to translate market and technology developments into relevant choices.
  • Ability to think strategically and conceptually while maintaining a connection to execution.
  • Ability to provide direction and influence senior stakeholders without formal hierarchical authority.
  • Ability to challenge existing assumptions and examine complex issues from new perspectives.
  • Ability to persuade people to support complex choices and change.
  • Must live in the Netherlands and be available to work in Utrecht.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure strategic choices within Business Lending and the transformation program remain aligned with the strategy, long-term vision, and desired future design of processes and technology.
  • Develop integrated scenarios and recommendations concerning priorities, phasing, and dependencies across initiatives.
  • Bring developments in the market, technology, and comparable transformations into the organization and translate them into concrete implications and opportunities for Business Lending.
  • Safeguard alignment among the Business Lending strategy, long-term vision, transformation roadmap, and future design of business lending.
  • Assess key choices within the transformation program against its strategic direction and desired future state.
  • Develop scenarios and recommendations that guide choices for Business Lending as a whole.
  • Monitor developments among software vendors, fintechs, system integrators, and other market participants, and translate relevant developments into strategic choices.
  • Critically review existing priorities and solution directions and help adjust them to improve coherence, simplicity, or speed.
  • Consider issues spanning multiple parts of Business Lending or transformation initiatives, ensuring choices reflect the broader organization rather than a single product, process, or technology issue.
  • Assess the impact of decisions on processes, products, technology, and architecture, and help the organization maintain direction amid competing interests, dependencies, and priorities.
  • Work closely with senior Business Lending leaders, product managers, product owners, architects, Operations, Risk & Compliance colleagues, external advisers, software vendors, system integrators, and colleagues across the transformation program to maintain strategic consistency.

About the Company

Rabobank

Cooperative bank offering retail, wholesale services

Rabobank is a Dutch cooperative bank owned by its members, serving individuals and businesses through local branches and digital channels. It provides payment accounts, savings, mortgages, business lending, insurance, and wealth management domestically via its app, website, and branches. Internationally, its Wholesale & Rural division finances the food and agriculture value chain with lending, trade and commodity finance, markets services, and sector analysis, while DLL offers vendor finance and leasing to equipment makers and their dealers. It earns mostly from interest on loans and mortgages plus fees, and aims to support people, businesses, and communities—especially in farming and food sectors—through tailored financial services under member governance.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$275M
Headquarters
Utrecht, Netherlands
Founded
1898

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