Cards Portfolio/Product Manager - Global Payments Consulting Firm - Contractual

Cards Portfolio/Product Manager - Global Payments Consulting Firm - Contractual Role

At Outsized, we match clients in financial services and management consulting to high-quality independent consultants and boutique/specialist firms for the execution of their key projects.

Our client is a leading global cards and payments firm, currently looking for a skilled Cards Product/Portfolio Manager to work with their banking clients in India.

Responsibilities:

Product/Portfolio Management:

- Comes with a good understanding of Card Product and Portfolio KPIs with a consulting bent of mind

- Able to solutionize, design and drive initiatives and priorities in line with Client's requirements

- Create program framework for activation, engagement, retention - identifying target groups based on product types and customer segments and align definitions with Portfolio & Product teams

- Provide support to create and operationalize the campaign design and delivery framework in conjunction with Client's cross-functional teams, including assistance in list generation, communication mix design and channel attribution

- Support in monitoring effectiveness of campaign and establish communication protocols with key stakeholder groups, including establishing effective feedback loops

- Driving offer communication by optimizing messaging and channel mix

- Designing of Client's Campaigns, supporting execution and overseeing the performance to ensure desired impact

- Set up review and monitoring framework for program performance before, during and after campaign period

- Manages allocated project deliverables within quality standards and budget.

- Structures documents and project deliverables, leveraging insights from data and client inputs

- Background of card product development, set-up and management to be of great advantage

Client and Project Management:

- Able to create project plan for large and long term engagement

- Track and provide regular updates in terms of critical milestones, activities and steer them in line with timelines including risk mitigation

- Manages projects owning all client deliverables and discussions in the project

- Navigating more complex team dynamics

- Independent in leading an engagement, seeks guidance as needed, however, ensures s/he owns the engagement.

- Influence across multiple teams that s/he works with or leads

Requirements:

- A bachelor's degree/ post-graduate qualification in marketing

- Minimum 6+ years of relevant experience managing product or portfolio

- Experience in consulting, credit card, debit card product and portfolio

- Be a critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills

- Exceptional stakeholder management, project management and collaboration skills

- Strong presentation and communications skills are essential

- Understand current marketing trends

- The ability to successfully manage multiple campaigns running at the same time

- Proficient in PowerPoint and excel

This opportunity will be on an initial contract duration of 12 months. This role requires the consultant to be based in Mumbai.