Product Manager Trade Finance - Rotterdam, Nederland - ABN Amro

Beschrijving

At a glance

You are a Trade Finance professional with a minimum of 2 years of experience in product, sales or operations with affinity towards IT and financial services. As a personal bank in the digital age, we are looking for someone with a digital mindset and experience in creating and maintaining propositions in a customer centric environment. Our goals? Growing our Trade Finance franchise. Clients that value our Trade Finance products and digital offerings. Continuity of service. All of which while maintaining a healthy cost-to-serve. Fit the description? Make sure to reach out

Your job

You are continuously working on strategizing, designing, developing and implementing our product offerings driven by fact based (customer) insights.

What you will do:

• Apply your commercial mindset and product skills to drive growth
• Be part of vision and strategy development for the product franchise
• Drive performance dialogues on product performance and customer satisfaction based on data
• Visualize customer journeys and processes, determine improvement areas
• Lead initiatives from idea to working products / features, including IT delivery
• Keep our products and processes compliant to regulations, (non-financial) risk management and market standards

Working environment

We work within the Transaction Services grid which is part of the Transaction Banking product unit. The ambition of Transaction Services is to improve the transaction experience, unlock new business models and to reduce manual handling whilst remaining compliant with regulatory and market standards. The Trade Finance franchise is part of the Transaction Services grid. We serve businesses ranging from Small & Medium Enterprises up to Corporate & Institutional Clients.

We do this by offering products that fall under the umbrella term Trade Finance: Letters of Credit, Guarantees / Standby Letter of Credit, and Collections. Banks and companies use these products to enable and facilitate international trade transactions. Our products help customers to secure i) delivery of goods/services, ii) getting paid iii) an optimized working capital position. Due to the nature of the Trade Finance products there is a relation to many aspects of banking in general, amongst others payments, financing and compliance.

Within the Trade Finance franchise, you will be part of the Value Proposition Block. Your team consists of 6 colleagues (including you). Besides your team, there are several Value Delivery Blocks consisting of IT engineers responsible for delivering digital capabilities. We work closely together with colleagues from Sales, Operations, and other departments that provide centralized capabilities. We have a hybrid way of working and can be found in Rotterdam or in our home-office. We are a tight team that like to go out on lunch together, do out-of-office activities, celebrate successes and take care of each other.

Your profile

You are a Trade Finance professional that delivers value as a real go-getter. You have a passion for Trade Finance and would like to become an (even better) expert in the field. You use creativity to overcome challenges and generate new ideas. Growing and owning propositions makes your heart beat faster. The voice of the customer is your starting point. You are digital savvy and able to work with IT teams towards technology delivery. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo for the sake of digitally transforming our Trade Finance business. You have a growth mindset and enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise with your team members. You have an analytical approach and believe in data driven decision making. You are able to see the bigger picture and take a long term view while also being able to adapt quickly to change. You look for opportunities and are not afraid to ask questions.

Check your profile:

• You have 2+ years of relevant work experience in the field of Trade Finance
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in either product management, process management, business analysis, sales (coverage, trade or lending) and/or risk management
• High business acumen and commercial growth focus
• Entrepreneurial mindset with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Higher educational background and relevant work experience.

We are offering

• The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget.
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

Interested?

Please apply online. In your application, our ask is to address below questions. It helps us to have a high quality first impression of you and can serve as the foundation for a first conversation. It might require a bit more time from you now, but we will all benefit from this in the process. Applications without answering these questions will not be taken into account. We take this procedure serious and are confident that you will as well. Many thanks in advance For questions please contact Aslan Burak via

1. What drives you to apply for this role and describe how this aligns with what you find important in your work? (max 200 words)
2. Give an example of how you have grown a Trade Finance proposition in terms of customer and revenue growth (max 200 words)
3. Give an example of an activity where you worked on optimizing capital return on a Trade Finance product (max 200 words)
4. Can you describe a team in which you worked with absolute pleasure and explain why that was the case and what you contributed to this? (max 200 words)

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. No unsolicited services or offers, please.

Wij bieden

• Analytische skills

Wij vragen

• Een ondernemende houding