Product Manager

**About the Role**
- **Position open to either Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane**

The Product Manager - Home Buying will deliver market leading home buyer experiences for customers across our three brands (BOQ, ME Bank and Virgin Money) This role will play a critical role in driving transformation and will bring strong commercial acumen, customer centricity and solution focus to drive better business and customer outcomes.
- Support BOQ Group’s digital transformation program through new product development, product simplification and migration strategy, with key focuses on delivering market-leading home buying propositions and experiences across our brands, digitising processes, driving cost efficiencies and mitigating risks.
- Provide portfolio reporting, insights, market trends and manage the levers available to achieve sustainable and profitable loan growth.
- Development of strong stakeholder relationships to drive execution of strategy including across retail network, brokers, marketing, digital, project delivery, operations, legal, compliance and risk teams.

**About you**
- Home Buying or Lending experience desirable
- Experience in product and/or portfolio management and product development in retail banking
- Possesses a high level of numeracy, strong analytical skills and strong commercial acumen
- Demonstrated development and delivery of successful product initiatives including the business case development and execution of initiatives.
- Experience in medium-large scale projects in digital transformation and/ or home buying is strongly desirable
- Experience across and/ or exposure to distribution, operations, credit or customer experience is strongly desirable
- High level attention to detail and the ability to prioritise within a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder management to drive business outcomes
- Understand the financial services regulatory environment and competitive landscape
- Self-motivated, proactive and achievement driven
- A business or finance degree is strongly desirable
- Experience in presenting at all levels of the organisation

**About Us**
BOQ is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to create prosperity for our customers, shareholders and people through empathy, integrity and by making a difference. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ is passionate about providing opportunities for you to develop your career as we continuously adapt and deliver in a transformational and collaborative environment with a strong focus on community.

BOQ’s Inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

In 2021 BOQ Group was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.
**Our Perks**
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- BUPA Corporate Plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- A ‘zero tolerance’ to Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) with active support for employees experiencing DFV
- 5 employee diversity network groups focusing on; First Nations Reconciliation Council, Proudly ME (LGBTIQA+), Multicultural, Gender and Early Career.
- BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

**How to Apply**

The Bank of Queensland is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

If you are successful for a role with the Bank of Queensland, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Job Reference: BOQ04140