Manager - Product Strategy & Operations

Manager, Product Strategy & Operations- Sydney, Australia

Would you like to play a key role in helping a global financial services company grow their business in Asia Pacific? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse FinTech organisation which is passionate about serving customers with omnichannel way of accessing remittance services, building market profile and driving growth? Join Western Union as Manager, Product Strategy & Operations.

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This role exists to deliver on Western Union’s ‘ecosystem’ strategy in Australia. This ecosystem strategy centers around launching new products beyond remittances, thereby meeting more of our customers’ financial needs.

Australia is the priority market; however, the successful candidate may have the opportunity to work on programs for other markets in Asia Pacific, too.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Australia, this successful candidate will be required to manage and own all aspects of the program including facilitating design and build of new non-remittance-based user experiences, defining business requirements, coordinating regulatory licensing and associated compliance programs, commercial relationships with suppliers, launch plans, internal management reporting, pricing and ongoing customer lifecycle management.

Role Responsibilities:

• Coordinate development of customer value propositions including pricing, operational servicing settings
• Define and document product requirements, features, and functionality.
• Draft business requirements and workflows, prioritise features, author Epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with the regional team to ensure product features are delivered according to specifications.
• Supporting the negotiating with suppliers including the execution of large, complex multi-year critical supplier relationship deals and ensuring that the deals make commercial sense for both suppliers and Western Union
• Supporting the initiation of streams of work with internal legal, compliance and regulatory teams to get license applications with regulatory bodies were required to offer a product.
• Initiate building work with operational teams and oversee the design of processes and systems to service the customer base on these new products.
• Assist in finalizing business requirements, direct internal resources to work on their areas accordingly and follow up on progress, keeping teams on track.
• Work closely with the entire compliance and risk management organisation to ensure the products have the correct compliance and risk management settings to operate within tolerances
• Find ways to solve problems through payments, compliance, legal, operational matters which arise from time to time.
• Develop substantive reporting to management on progress during build phase. Work with marketing to design customer acquisition strategies: initiate the production of go-to-market plans by marketing stakeholders.
• Assess opportunities by identifying ROI, define key performance indicators and partner with analytics team to measure success.
• Provide ongoing analysis on product effectiveness using a data driven approach.
• Identifying key problems through vigorous testing of mobile and web customer platforms for us to solve to improve the customer experience and comply with local regulation.
• Continuously implement and improve analytics infrastructure to track, monitor, optimise, innovate, and report on acquisition and conversion metrics.

Role Requirements:

• Must have at least 2 years’ experience working with domestic and international payments. Experience can be gained through banks / financial services orgs, specialist payment companies, or at domestic or international schemes.
• The role will require product launch experience, operations experience, card scheme, risk and compliance management in any of the areas of domestic payments, wallets, cards, micro-lending and / or foreign exchange.
• Experience supporting the build and launch of consumer applications both on web and mobile platforms including mobile and product management will be regarded well.
• Strong business writing, numerical analysis, and communication skills especially in dealing with different stakeholders globally.
• Basic understanding of systems development, including types of integrations (e.g. APIs), workflows and good implementation and scalability practice will be regarded well.
• Experience developing basic wireframes and user journey flows.
• Ability to work seamlessly with matrix teams, and juggle projects across multiple networks and platforms.
• Experience in FinTech’s or financial services – working on transactional banking, payments, or remittances is a plus.
• Experience working in a large corporate environment is a plus.

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations.

You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you’re ready to help drive the future of financial services, it’s time for Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at https://careers.westernunion.com/.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few (https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your Australia specific benefits include:

• Life / Accident Coverage
• Superannuation Plan
• Paid Time Offs
• Employee Wellness
• Global Recognition and Rewards Programs

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

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