Head Of Business Innovation at KCB Bank Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Generate strategies that deliver a pipeline of products and processes to ensure a sustainable stream of innovative solutions to continuously deliver top line growth by leveraging complex/ambiguous opportunities.
• Manage new product and process development projects to maximize speed to market and drive organization alignment.
• Use customer insights to identify potential new product and process opportunities and market dynamics.
• Provide leadership, creative and strategic oversight throughout the process.
• Use judgment, influence and gatekeeping to prioritize and stop less viable projects early to avoid unproductive consumption of resources.
• Develop product positioning/repositioning strategies for entire portfolio in order to drive retention/ culling decisions.
• Drive new product and process development via collaboration with peers across the organization and working closely with the executive management team.
• Responsible for direct management of new product and process development personnel to include establishment of objectives, key work assignments, and performance management.

Job Requirements:

• University degree in a Business, Marketing or a similar discipline from an institution recognized by Commission of Higher Education is required.
• Professional qualification in CIM is a requirement.
• Minimum of 8 years’ Marketing experience with proven performance in a Senior Management role
• Minimum of 5 years’ Senior management experience in Product and Process innovation and execution
• Financial management; has Business acumen, an investor / owner’s mind-set and approach to business; willingness to take commercial risks and mitigated operational risk
• Have strong relationship and communication skills; problem-solving intrinsics and have energy to sustain program momentum over an extended period
• Can deploy a broad range of leadership styles; must have C Suite level gravitas and credibility.