Head of Retail Investments
Requisition : 141544
Title : Head Retail Investments
Cluster : PPB Product Design and Innovation
Closing Date : 25 August2025
Specialist Recruiter : William Mtsweni
Job Family
Project Process and Product
Career Stream
Product
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Managers
FAIS Affected
Job Purpose
To lead develop and evolve client centred value propositions to maintain strong coverage of the target segments to achieve Nedbanks strategic objectives. The role requires an individual with extensive experience expertise and technical skill and understanding of Financial Services and Liquidity Management. This requires an individual that is enable to define socialise and execute strategy ensuring it translates into exponential client and revenue growth. The ideal candidate should be a thought leader with the ability to navigate multiple disciplines and decisions within a shifting uncertain and at times ambiguous landscape.
Job Responsibilities
- Achieve agreed financial objectives by driving sustainable growth and performance of Nedbank Investment product solutions.
- Develop a strategic and action plan to operationalise and implement how Nedbank will compete in market how market share will be gained and what factors will give Nedbank a competitive capability and advantage within the Investment portfolio.
- Remain competitively positioned by proactively monitoring and responding to competitor activities and legislative requirements through proactive market research benchmarking of industry best practices and legislative research.
- Meet business objectives by communicating and actioning insights for competitive advantage using integrated reports and analytics.
- Meet financial objectives by leading and supporting the organisational budgeting process and overseeing reporting and monitoring of organisational and functional business unit performance.
- Achieve excellence in strategy execution by integrating people processes management systems measurements and rewards.
- Create organisational alignment and collaboration with other business areas within the Cluster and Cross-Cluster to drive common achievement of the Nedbank strategy and objectives.
- Manage the overall quality and performance of the portfolio as well as all aspects of portfolio administration.
- Develop and lead profitable product solutions that grow Investment Products market share and brand presence.
- Manage liquidity and deposit growth by managing co-ordinating pricing marketing distribution and margin management.
- Market awareness of the changing trends in investment solutions along with changing clients needs.
- Exploring potential new opportunities based on how our products compare in the market and their profitability.
- Lead the implementation of new products and services from Incubation to Commercialisation and Scale.
- Explore the value and feasibility of new potential products and services.
- Define portfolio execution processes planning and implementation and ensuring consistency of delivery standards.
- Translate strategy into execution playing a leadership role in guiding the team through the Agile delivery methodology.
- Work closely across the organisation such as Client experience segment channel Digital marketing finance operations risk legal etc.
- Drive the operationalisation of products and services needed minimizing organisational complexity and cost to serve.
- Manage team effectively and efficiently across the HR value chain including recruitment performance management retention of critical staff succession planning and coaching and talent management.
- Achieve risk management governance and compliance requirements by ensuring adherence to agreed processes and policies.
- Mitigate risk by implementing non-financial and financial controls.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior CertificateAdvanced Diplomas / National 1st DegreesPreferred Qualification
Any Relevant Degree with Honours / Masters DegreeMinimum Experience Level
7-10 years Senior Management experience in managing a team within Banking or Financial Services.Technical / Professional Knowledge
Digital KnowledgePayments KnowledgeIT Technical KnowledgeFinancial PrinciplesClient ExperienceLeadership and CommunicationStrategic Planning and ExecutionGovernance Risks and ControlsBusiness AcumenProduct Development and Life CycleType of Exposure
Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to work situationsImplementing actions to improve the organisational cultureBuilding and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external clients and vendorsImplementing and managing strategies to achieve business area objectivesRepresenting the company in Industry related forumsDisplaying high level of ethics integrity and confidentialityConsolidate data from various sources and identify / interpret trendsFormulating and implementing communication strategies to cascade functional strategiesNegotiating a major deal / contractProviding input into strategy formulationTechnical / Professional Knowledge
Change managementClient service managementCommunication StrategiesDiversity managementEmployee training / developmentFinancial Accounting PrinciplesOrganisational behaviour theoryPrinciples of project managementStrategic planningManagement information and reporting principles tools and mechanismsBehavioural Competencies
Building PartnershipsCommunicationCustomer FocusDecision MakingContinuous ImprovementGuiding Sales OpportunitiesPlease contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Key Skills
ASP.NET,Corporate Sales,Creative Production,ABAP,Field Sales,Jni
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1