Head – Vehicle and Asset Finance (VAF) Employment Opportunity – Stanbic Bank

Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Job ID: 24541
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings
Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”),
Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group
is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest
African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda
Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It
offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal
and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
Job Summary: The Head –
Vehicle and Asset Finance (VAF) will develop a fit for purpose VAF country
strategy; manage the VAF products end to end and grow VAF profitability over
the next 3 years
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
Strategy Formulation and Development:
  • Develop and present to Country Executive
    Committee a detailed 3 year VAF strategyDevelop a VAF strategy that
    includes grey vehicles; is customer centric; focused on client base growth
    and the achievement of set business targets
  • Evaluate market trends and competitor
    offerings; identify new revenue streams and business opportunities; and
    conceptualize appropriate VAF products
  • Understand the highly complex retail
    banking/financial services business (all aspects – segments, sales, risk
    management and channels) generally in the external market, but also more
    specifically what the capabilities and constraints are within the bank
  • Gather data on new VAF products and
    evaluate them for financial and market potential
  • Collaborate with enabling functions to
    develop the delivery and support of product strategies and processes
  • Define and manage the risk appetite for
    the VAF products
Sales Management:
  • Develop an understanding of the market
    size, growth opportunity, market shares, potential customer profiles,
    competitors and profitability of the VAF product(s)
  • Based on the market opportunity, set the
    VAF market share strategies, growth plans as well as budgets and targets
  • Develop the VAF bank wide sales plans for
    each sector
  • Communicate the value proposition of VAF
    products to the sales team, customers and other relevant stakeholders
  • Develop selling tools that support the
    VAF products selling process
  • Manage the processing of VAF applications
    across the bank in liaison with Credit
  • Manage VAF book provisions and
    expenditure within the agreed budget
  • Develop and monitor the VAF sales channels
  • Train and support sales teams
Development:
  • Drive the development of customized Uganda
    specific VAF solutions
  • Package VAF products to make them
    compelling, differentiated and easy to buy/sell
  • Identify and review new business
    opportunities for the VAF products/solutions
  • Re-engineer or enhance product processes
 Management:
  • Define good product management
    understanding, processes and practices including but not limited to:
    product features and functionalities; pricing and margin management; risk
    appetite setting and monitoring; revenue leakage; balance sheet
    optimisation; ROE; capital management; FTP; value driver lever analysis
    and balancing interdependencies; and product activation and customer value
    management
  • Take full accountability for identifying,
    quantifying and highlighting any significant issues and growing trends
    that have implications for the profitability and relevance of the products
    within the portfolio
  • Prepare and deliver VAF product
    demonstrations/presentation to internal and external audiences
Product Development and Management:
  • New or re-engineered VAF products or
    processes
  • Product profitability 
Customer Centricity:
  • Embed the VAF product within all client
    relationship managed portfolios
  • Build a strong understanding of the
    customer, the customer value proposition and competitor offerings
  • Work closely with others to resolve VAF
    customer complaints and challenges
  • Ensure frequent client visits to existing
    VAF clients
Relationship Management:
  • Build effective cross functional
    relationships in-country (Business Owners, Regional Managers, Credit,
    Legal, Risk, Operations)
  • Implement and maintain strategic
    relationships with Dealers, Suppliers and Brokers
  • Manage the matrix ROA relationships (ROA
    VAF Head and VAF Heads in other countries) and leverage on Group VAF
    expertise
People Management:
  • Responsible for inspiring, motivating,
    leading and managing the VAF team
  • Responsible for the recruitment,
    development and retention of relevant skills
  • Set clear VAF team goals and coach direct
    reports to set aligned individual goals
  • Develop a bank wide VAF products and sales
    training program to build product awareness and grow VAF products sales
  • Identify and develop talent for the VAF
    business
Risk and Control Environment Management:
  • Play a pivotal role in enabling the VAF
    regulatory framework
  • Accountable to manage the entire VAF
    value chain and risk related procedures, processes and controls
  • Put in place a governance framework and
    processes for the VAF business
  • Establish and observe compliance
    requirements with appropriate legislation
  • Keenly analyse associated regulatory risk
    in the VAF business and implement mitigation plans
  • Adhere to internal and external audit
    requirements
  • Address audit issues within agreed
    timelines
Key Performance Indicators:
  • Country Exco approved 3 year VAF strategic
    plan
  • Budgeted sales objectives achieved
  • Budgeted profits achieved
  • Performance of the VAF book against budget
  • Customer satisfaction feedback
  • Stakeholder satisfaction feedback
  • Satisfactory audit rating
  • No repeat audit findings
  • VAF team employee engagement score
  • Performance development plans executed for
    the team
  • Succession plan for key roles
  • Sales targets embedded in the business
    scorecards
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The Stanbic Bank Head – Vehicle and Asset
    Finance (VAF) career opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in
    relevant field
  • At least five to seven years’ experience
    in management positions in VAF or commercial banking.
  • Proven successful sales track record in
    the financial services industry.
  • Previous experience in management of teams
    or sales teams
  • A sound working knowledge of Managing
    Local Market (MLM) sales principles and practices to manage and optimise
    portfolio retention and growth.
  • Good working knowledge of technical
    portfolio management systems
  • Knowledge of how to use the Group
    Reference Guide to access/ look up relevant information
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking
Groups, Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply
Online by visiting Link below.
Deadline: 24th June 2017
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