Apply as Chief Digital Officer at Michael Stevens Consulting Full Time

Michael Stevens Consulting – Founding in 1991, has grown to become a leading provider of high value Human Resources, Recruitment, Learning & Development, Outsourcing and Business Advisory solutions to multinationals, local corporate organizations, governments and multilateral organizations. Our depth of our expertise, defined by carefully selected pool of multi-disciplinary consultants, ensures that we continue to be the firm of choice to our growing list of discerning clientele.

Michael Stevens Consulting-Our client is currently recruiting to fill the position of Chief Digital Officer and all qualified members of the public are expected to apply as quick as possible

Job Title: Chief Digital Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Objective (s)

• Defines the key business measures and objectives for the digital bank, including target market segments and their objectives
• The CDO’s role encompasses all scope of services delivered by the Digital team (e.g. E-banking, brand & communication, product development, product marketing & sales etc). S/he will be responsible for driving the business leveraging on online technologies and data.

Reporting Relationships:

• Functionally reports to: MD/CEO
• Administratively reports to: Office of the MD
• Supervises: E-banking
• Brand + communication
• CX Design
• Product Development
• Product Marketing & Sales
• Partnership + Ecosystems.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide direction and leadership on a day-to-day basis
• Develop a clearly-defined and compelling digital strategy for the company’s future and ensure implementation of the company’s digital roadmap
• Own the digital strategy – conceptualize, design, build, deploy and manage digital financial products / services to meet the current / future digital needs of the bank
• Lead the planning, implementation, delivery and continuous improvement of digital solutions for the bank
• Direct the development and revisions to policies and procedures for the general operation of the bank’s digital strategy and its related activities.
• Conduct in-depth customer research and engagement to identify and prioritise digital opportunities for the bank through
• Customize customer journeys based on a strong understanding of their needs and behavioural patterns
• Act as the single point of contact for all digital product requests, business intelligence reporting and analytical tools requirements to the bank
• Work closely with Digital Product team to introduce new solutions, enhance existing solutions/services and retire obsolete solutions in alignment with digital product plan and roadmap
• Employ data to create new business development plans and effectively mine territory to develop new customer bases
• Build and manage high-performing Digital Solutions teams (Build and Run) to deliver against digital roadmap
• Proactively educate the bank on market developments, emerging themes and partnership opportunities in the digital space
• Support the definition and execution of campaigns to enhance speed to market and quality of delivered digital services
• Have a firm grasp of Design Control and Beta Testing activities to ensure seamless market launch
• Track the competition’s activities and focus on ensuring that the bank’s digital products and solutions deployed in the market meet all relevant consumer needs
• Maintain a balance between business and technology.
• Connect digital investments to enterprise KPIs in order to achieve positive digital transformation.
• Expand the Digital Innovation Ecosystem
• Measure ROI on Digital Projects
• Develop a digital brand that will appeal to and attract the best and brightest talent in the field.
• Development and management of team members to ensure productivity while measuring each performance against the overall targets.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Growth in Digital Acquisition Customer base
• Robustness of the idea pipeline and ability to convert ideas into product/ service offerings
• Ecosystem Centricity
• Data-Driven Business
• Profitable Digital Capabilities.

Requirements
Minimum Education Qualifications

• Minimum educational level – Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Computer Science, Marketing, Technology start-up services, FINTECH, payments, mobile, software, hardware assets with a track record of progressively taking on senior roles, or related fields. with a Master’s Degree

Previous Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum requisite experience: 14 – 18 years bank working experience
• Experience in managing a broad portfolio of products/solutions (preferably digital) through the entire lifecycle; demonstrated leadership in new product development and deployment
• Demonstrated track record of planning, managing and delivering on complex cross-functional projects from conceptualization to launch
• Proven record of implementing strategic initiatives, policies and operational decisions
• Strategic thinking and thought leadership
• Understanding of, and experience working with, payment technologies related to ecommerce, Tokenization, Mobile, IOT etc.
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment, and to influence senior management and other relevant parties
• Executive presence; strong written and oral communication-including large-group presentations
• People and stakeholder management experience.

Application Closing Date
18th December, 2020.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the “Job Title” as the subject of the email.