Head of Business Development

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**ROLE OVERVIEW**:
As a Head of Business Development & Business Transformation, you will be coordinating the delivery of strategic business projects and initiatives requiring significant organizational change and transformation in its wide scope for German and neighboring geographies, from identifying opportunities for improvement into developing change strategies and monitoring progress against the financial objectives.

The objective is to allow efficient organizational collaboration integrating areas of strategy, process, technology and business in order to meet the customers changing needs and requirements and ultimately drive the revenue growth.

Head of Business Development & Business Transformation is supporting business growth in aligning on priorities and identifying areas requiring change to enable optimum business set-up primarily for Germany.

The role will work closely with the Segment Head and business leaders to deliver on the desired business outcome. It will require overseeing of all areas of business to deliver measurable improvements and acting as the bridge in decision making process between technology, HR and business.

**Main Duties include**:
A Head of Business Transformation will typically have wide range of responsibilities, which can include:

- Developing business rationale and financial case for driving a change initiative to obtain senior leadership buy-in
- Supporting in bringing new and developing existing partnerships driving development of distribution channels
- Bringing up new initiatives and ideas on how to accelerate the revenue growth but solving customers and partners problems
- Analysing data and reports to determine changes needed in order to increase organizational operating model efficiency
- Leading the prioritization process and alignment between the wider organization
- Owning end-to-end delivery of a strategic initiative
- Monitoring progress of the key projects to ensure timely execution and realization of the assumed revenue growth
- Allocating resources required within the organization to obtain an optimal set-up and flexibility in growth initiatives management
- Seeking for new operating models and engaging with external vendors to accelerate change delivery
- Building communication and engagement plans to bring employees, customers and partners on the change journey

**Dimensions**
- Germany/BeNeLux and other european geographies

**Main Qualification, Skills and Experience include**:

- ** Several years of relevant professional experience in the area of business transformation, business development and strategy development**
- ** Previous experience in FinTech industry**
- Project management and leadership experience in complex organizational structures as well as strong communication and persuasive skills,
- Knowledge about financial technology solutions,
- Confident knowledge of English, both written and spoken,
- Must demonstrate transferable skills and international background to be able to address the broad scope of the challenges and initiatives to take onboard
- Acting as a liaison between different teams to align on the business objectives and desired customer process improvement excellent communication
- Problem-solving and influencing skills to make organization work together for the common objective
- Individual who can demonstrate passion for change and be able to think strategically to manage multiple projects on the same time.
- High organizational capabilities and discipline to manage to and execute an agreed strategic plan

**Location / Mobility considerations**
- Post holder may be required to travel frequently in the fulfillment of role duties
- These role has been identified as a Controlled Function (“CF”) has been identified as a Controlled Function under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness & Probity Regime. Accordingly, the Company must be satisfied on reasonable grounds that the role holder complies at all times with the Fitness and Probity Standards, which require that a person must (a) be competent and capable; (b) act honestly, ethically and with integrity; and (c) be financially sound. _
- Accordingly, the holder of the role must meet and continue to comply with the Fitness and Probity Standards. In addition, the role holder should take reasonable steps to ensure the areas they are accountable for are managed with appropriate due skill, care and diligence to comply with Central Bank of Ireland requirements as applicable. Failure