Platform and Projects Lead

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

The Platform and Projects Lead will have the ambition to harmonize, streamline, maintain and further digitize platforms across APAC.

**YOUR CHALLENGE**:
**Functional**
- Lead the conceptualization and delivery of various product/ domain verticals under your care (e.g. Finance, Reporting, Alerts and Notifications) as a Business Product Owner
- Work with Finance, Front Office, and Markets teams to conceptualize the journey, gather and define user stories, design & prioritize features, provide requirements, work with IT and other team members on delivery
- Understand customer needs, derive the overall product vision, lead the stakeholder management, prioritize the overarching change-delivery and run-operations backlog along the epics & features
- Accountable for the product across its lifecycle (CtB and RtB) and responsible to ensure compliance with the Bank’s project governance
- Collaborate with other Product Owners to build the required functionality and with IT to ensure solutions are deployed to users
- Responsible to manage dependencies

**Regulatory Responsibilities, Risk Management**
- Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

**RANK APPLICABLE TO THE POSITION**
- Director

**YOUR PROFILE**:
**Professional and Technical**
- University/FH Degree in Business Administration or other relevant higher education
- Previous Product Manager (PM) and/or Product Owner (PO) experience
- Minimum 10 years of product / platform ownership, project management and delivery experience
- At least 5 years of Agile experience. Experienced in driving EPICs conceptually throughout implementation
- Experience defining a vision and strategy for a digital solution, product or service. Successfully managed the full product lifecycle, including integration of user feedback and driving prioritization
- Outstanding ability to manage and communicate with stakeholders at any seniority level
- Strong analytical and investigation skills, with an ability to resolve issues in a demanding and challenging environment
- Flexible and able to work independently with mínimal supervision
- Applied data analytics experience to derive insights and steer business activities
- Experience in the regulatory/ finance reporting space with associated familiarity of MAS/ HKMA policies will be a significant plus

**Personal and Social**
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Enthusiastic collaborator and team player with a positive attitude
- Proven ability to manage large cross-functional project teams across regions
- Strong conceptual, analytical and problem solving skills. Demonstrated data-driven decision making
- Ability to think pragmatically and drive execution of concepts. Analyse, prioritize, resolve issues and take decisions during challenging times
- Adaptive communication skills (to address the needs of various stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (ability to communicate effectively across all levels)
- Action oriented, with a focus on continuous improvement in all areas of works