Product Area Lead Investments Belgium – Commerce & Value Proposition in Brussel

Product Area Lead Investments Belgium – Commerce & Value Proposition

The opportunity

Your role & work environment

At Investments, we want to inspire people to grow their money throughout their life. We believe that investing is one of the best solutions for our customers to achieve their long-term goals and needs in life. We see it as our role to support them in that journey. With great, recognizable products, but above all with an excellent digital experience that goes from customer inspiration to the achievement of their goals, and beyond. Complemented with high-quality advisors for the moments that matter.

Investments is a highly dynamic and complex landscape with strong competition, rapid technological developments and big commercial ambition. This makes it a very interesting environment to lead.

We are looking for a senior leader to drive our growth in investment products through improving our sales performance, product offering, and customer experience. A Product Area Lead (PAL) who role models in energy, ambition, and transparency, to help achieve the goals for ING Belgium, as part of a cross-border Dutch-Belgian tribe.

Roles and responsibilities

As a PAL Investments BE, you:

• Define and execute the product strategy for investments in Belgium
• Create an OKR-based performance management and celebration culture
• Strengthen the product quality and profitability of our core portfolios
• Drive the development of a differentiating product and advisor experience
• Create commercial traction through marketing & pricing leadership
• Support the optimization of our tech landscape through focus and simplification
• Improve your team’s engagement through shared vision & strategic clarity
• Develop data-driven and commercial skills & mindset
• Drive targeted people rotations to structurally strengthen the team
• Develop the way of working and collaboration structures with other teams
• Build collaboration with the sales organization through trusted relationships
• Further grow the collaboration with the workgroup of independent agents

We look for

A leader who takes things on and makes things happen; who is passionate about helping others to be successful; and has a knack for always being a step ahead. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As PAL Investments BE you will also need:

• Ability to display style flexibility to teams and adapt plan, approach and behaviour to the different needs and situations, while bringing the best out of our talent
• Strong organisational sensitivity, ability to understand and take into account the underlying issues, opportunities and dynamics of an organisation
• Deep understanding of the investments markets and its opportunities
• Ability to take responsibility, steer strategy and realisations based on facts and data; managerial courage to question and make decisions
• Focus on delivery through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose
• Ability to empower teams to act autonomously, think out of the box and hold them accountable
• Ability to simplify complexity and drive operational excellence
• Ability to support yourself and other team members in development
• Strong resilience, ability to navigate through ambiguity
• Ability to make an impact through inspiring and energetic leadership that leads teams through change

 Proven track record and technical skills:

• 10-15 years banking experience including commercial experience and management experience
• Experience in defining corporate strategy and policy in order to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames
• Having been responsible for business development at an international bank
• Having experience working as consultant is a plus
• Proven track record in digitalization
• Sound experience in building and executing strategic roadmaps
• Excellent level of English.
• Master’s degree

We offer you  

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realise your ambitions
• An informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours
• A progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention

Furthermore, within the Market Leaders Retail organisation, you can count on a range of opportunities to invest in your personal and professional growth with.

How to succeed 

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

 Rewards and benefits 

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life and reward our people with a generous benefits offer and employment conditions.   

 We redefine banking. What about you?

There has never been a more interesting time to work at ING. We’re on a journey that’s centred around our customers, powered by technology and driven by smart, determined people. Our customers feel our people are empowering them to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We’re proud of that!