Senior Manager, Digital Product and Ecosystem- Philippines

Senior ManagerDigitalProduct and Ecosystem-Philippines

Role Responsibilities:

This role exists to deliver on Western Unions ecosystem strategy in Philippines. This ecosystem strategy centers around deployingadditionalfinancial services beyond remittances thereby meeting more of our customers financial needs.

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

The role will be part of the APAC Product Team and 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.

This is a non-technical role with end-to-end accountability for each new service / products to be offered in the market.

• 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.

• Initiating streams of work with internal legal compliance and regulatory teams to get license applications with regulatory bodieswhereto offer a product.

• Initiatebuildingwork with operational teams and oversee the design of processes and systems to service the customer base on these new products.

• Develop customer value propositions including pricing operational servicing settings.

• Develop andfinalizebusiness 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 organization to ensure the products have the correct compliance and risk management settings tooperatewithin tolerances.

• Find ways tosolve problemsthrough payments compliance legal operational matters which arise from time to time.

• Develop substantive reporting to management on progress duringthe buildingphase. Work with marketing to design customer acquisition strategies:initiatethe production of go-to-market plans by marketing stakeholders.

• Generate new product ideas that are focused on driving revenueacquiringnew customersretainingexisting customers building brand loyalty and providing self-service tools to customers. Including spending time in the marketmeetingandspeakingwith customers.

• Assess opportunities byidentifyingROIdefinekey performanceindicatorsandpartnerwithan analyticsteam to measure success.

• Define and document product requirements features and functionality.

• Draft business requirements and workflows prioritize features author Epics userstoriesand acceptance criteria and collaborate with the regional team to ensure product features are delivered according to specifications.

• Provide ongoing analysisonproduct effectiveness using a data driven approach.

• Identifyingkey problems through vigorous testing of mobile and web customer platforms forus to solveto improvethe customerexperience andcomply withlocal regulation.

• Continuously implement and improve analytics infrastructure to track monitoroptimize innovate and report on acquisition and conversion metrics.

Role Requirements:

• Must have at least 5 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 sound process improvement optimization operations experience card schemeriskand compliance management in any of the areas of domestic payments wallets cards micro-lending and / or foreign exchange.

• Experience building and launching consumer applications both on the 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 will be a plus.

• Ability to work seamlessly with matrix teams and juggle projects across multiple networks and platforms.

• Experience in FinTechs or financial services transactional banking payments orremittances;working in a large corporate environmentarea plus.

Work Shift

Western Union values in-person collaboration problem solving and ideation whenever possible. We believe this fosters common ways of working and supports how we execute initiatives for our customers. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

BENEFITS AND OTHER DETAILS

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( see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may shareadditionalrole-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

YourPhilippines specific benefits include:

• Paid Time Offs

• Health card (HMO) coverage with unlimited dependents from day 1 of employment

• Employee Wellness

• Global Recognition and Rewards Programs

Other Details

We are passionate about honoring our employees identity and fostering a feeling of belonging.Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams whilereflectingthe 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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