Senior Product Group Manager (US)

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America. The Senior Product Group Manager will provide leadership in managing a complex product function, overseeing product teams, and ensuring efficient delivery of products and services while aligning with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees and leads a highly complex and diverse product function for an area of significant complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project/initiative success and achieve business results
• Generally accountable for a significant product management area that typically has enterprise wide impact or accountability
• Enterprise or functional expert, requiring broad managerial and deep specialized knowledge at the enterprise, business, regulatory and industry levels
• Leads and manages teams handling mass or niche products/segment suites, with moderate to high levels of size/complexity of the product groups/segments
• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise
• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise best practices
• Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the portfolio and financials, with deep industry, external/internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends
• Identifies operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management/enterprise areas
• Facilitates key strategic discussions and provides thought leadership to executive audience (output may include strategic roadmap and/or deliverables/frameworks/short to long term goals etc.)
• Sets overall team direction and collaborates with others to execute on common goals
• Focus on longer-range planning for functional area
• Oversees product teams and ensures the simple and efficient delivery of products and services to the customer
• Provides vision, leadership and strategic guidance in developing and implementing Bank's products, services and programs including features, benefits and characteristics
• Develops and implements products/policies and procedures in such a way that it enhances the end to end customer experience (including training, enhancement and irritant reduction) while achieving business objectives
• Develops and manages the product development calendar for the team and oversees the successful and seamless execution of deliverables
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with sales distribution, key internal stakeholders and/or external partners to ensure that customer needs are considered in strategic decisions and in the development of options, solutions and alternatives
• Leads business plans leveraging Acquisition and Segments teams to increase new account growth and track P&L impact
• Liaises with partners (i.e. Marketing, Phone Channel, Retail) to understand industry and customer trends; Analyzes challenges and identifies areas of opportunity through customer research, focus groups, and external secondary research; Facilitates ideation sessions and builds necessary business cases for NPD, identifying solutions and building stronger plans for growth
• Manages the product development budget of the team; Determines the optimal allocation of overall budget to ensure objectives can be achieved or exceeded
• Manages the identification of competitive offerings in the market and their strengths and weaknesses
• Determines the methodology to quantify market analysis to assess product performance including product lifecycle, quality, technical support, marketing programs and sales support
• Oversees the creation of product roadmaps to illustrate the vision for the product; Plans product solutions that meet the needs of targeted customers
• Partners with marketing and various channels to develop programs to move buyers through the buying process
• Directs market research projects and recommends methods for growing existing markets and developing opportunities for customer products and services
• Establishes an annual business and expense plan for the product/segment, monitors results to plan
• Implements and monitors product/segment performance against objectives, recommending enhancements to ensure a consistent customer, brand experience
• Delivers financial results for the product/product suite via operation of all available levers: pricing, margin, volume etc., creates and delivers business cases to achieve strategic business results (acquisition, retention, customer experience, engagement and market share)
• Works closely with key business leaders to develop business plan, ensuring the optimal use of resources and leverages TD’s operating model to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and scale
• Conducts ongoing industry and competitive analysis to obtain market insights and ensure Acquisition Teams are kept informed of matters to be competitive and win in the marketplace
• Executes on the annual business plan to deliver results aligned with business strategies
• Develops and implements products to drive profitable product growth and increased market share through strategic partnerships with internal/external stakeholders, as well as, industry, and customer insights/foresights expertise
• Refines product management strategies through detailed analysis of the P&L, ongoing competitive research and review of marketing/risk management tactics
• Participates and collaborates on initiatives with internal and external service providers (IT, operations, legal, compliance, marketing etc.) to ensure the product meets TDBG objectives and standards
• Ensures effective product policies and processes are established to support business processes align with risk appetite
• Reviews and approves business and expense plans and tracks success and effectiveness of product development delivery and implementation
• Ensures all products are in compliance and meet all regulatory requirements
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
• Ensures employees are knowledgeable; and assumes responsibility to minimize operational and regulatory risk by complying with Bank and industry Code of Conduct

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree or product management certificate and/or
• 10+ years relevant experience
• Previous Product experience required
• Experience in leading strategy strongly recommended
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to conduct product research, product analysis and development, forecasting, pricing, competitive intelligence
• Knowledge of current and emerging competitor and market trends
• Advanced ability to lead, plan, implement and evaluate program/project activities to ensure completion of product initiatives
• Ability to contribute to strategic direction of the product management function and provide advice to senior leadership
• Ability to forecast initiatives and demand in order to develop annual strategic product plan
• Skill in mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships across teams and functions
• Ability to work successfully as a member of a team and independently
• Ability to exercise sound judgement in making decisions
• Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines
• Skill in preparing and managing budgets, P&L and resource allocation
• Knowledge of and/or skill in using analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques
• Skill in using computer applications including MS Office
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion