QNB3650 - Assistant Vice President - Innovation

About QNBEstablished in 1964 as the country’s first Qatari-owned commercial bank, QNB Group has steadily grown to become the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.QNB Group’s presence through its subsidiaries and associate companies extends to more than 31 countries across three continents providing a comprehensive range of advanced products and services. The total number of employees is more than 28,000 serving up to 20 million customers operating through 1,000 locations, with an ATM network of 4,300 machines.QNB has maintained its position as one of the highest rated regional banks from leading credit rating agencies including Standard & Poor’s (A), Moody’s (Aa3) and Fitch (A+). The Bank has also been the recipient of many awards from leading international specialised financial publications.Based on the Group’s consistent strong financial performance and its expanding international presence, QNB currently ranks as the most valuable bank brand in the Middle East and Africa, according to Brand Finance Magazine.QNB Group has an active community support program and sponsors various social, educational and sporting events.Job Purpose SummaryThe overall role for the position is to assist the SVP/ VP Innovation to drive cultural change around one dedicated strategic innovation theme. The incumbent will manage and monitor all innovation initiatives within his/ her scope in order to ensure that they are implemented and completed within the defined time, budget and requirements with the support of the originally allocated resources. The incumbent will also be responsible for developing, driving and rolling out appropriate tracking metrics for regular reporting to core stakeholders at a project, initiative and program level. He/ she is also responsible for actively maintaining and updating the established ecosystem.Essential Duties & Responsibilities By DimensionsShareholder & Financial:Establish and maintain strong working relationships across all business and support units as well as countries across QNB GroupAssist SVP/ VP in identifying, exploring and validating one or several Strategic themes: AI/ ML, API/ Open banking, Platforms and marketplaces, Robotics and automationOwn post-mortems on completed innovation initiatives to ensure that they delivered the forecasted value creation to the GroupAssist other departments in identifying, analyzing and monitoring external innovation trendsManage the roll out of appropriate innovation tracking metrics for regular reporting to core stakeholders at a project, initiative and program levelSupervise the update of established performance metricsImplements KPI’s and best practices for Assistant Vice President Innovation role.Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank.Act within the limits of the powers delegated to the incumbent.Customer (Internal & External):Support the SVP/ VP Innovation to successfully run the innovation agendaFoster and empower employees to create a bottom-up innovation culture in which participants share ideas to improve existing products/ servicesAct as a partner to the concerned business and support divisions and lead process improvement projects together with representatives from one or more business and support divisionsManage activities centered around instilling the innovation culture at QNB, such as innovation days, hackathons, innovation lab, etc.Supervise in the preparation of regular updates to the Executive Management on global innovative trends, status of current QNB innovation initiatives and impact of completed innovation projectsAct as a coach and support for SMEs in the evaluation stage - Act as a content owner for the Innovation Learning and Development resources accessible to the QNB employee baseInternal (Processes, Products, Regulatory):Obtain mandate, inputs and overall direction from EVP/ SVP/ VP Innovation on specific initiativesSupervise the development and preparation of all policies/ processes and procedures as well as standardsCoordinate the innovation execution by managing the portfolio of group-wide innovation initiatives and conducting the post-mortem on completed initiativesBe involved and engaged in individual projects on a day-to-day basis to provide assistance to the project teamsDemonstrate advanced project management skills and implement industry best practices and standards of project portfolio managementDemonstrate deep understanding of Lean and Process Management to ensure alignment with the work undertaken across the wider Innovation DepartmentLearning & Knowledge:Identify related areas for professional self-developmentPossess strong project management fundamentals as well as project portfolio management methodology/ techniques and toolsMaintain basic knowledge about banking processes, regulations, and generally accepted operating practices.Research industry topics and react by recommending changes to produ