Business Manager at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa's leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria UBA has grown to become a pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Manager

Location: Nigeria

Job Objective(s)

• To establish and maintain positive customer relationships, plan and deliver an effective marketing strategy and monitor the progress of new and existing products; as well as provide operational management support on a day-to-day basis.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare annual marketing plans and strategies for liability generation to enable PCMs/business officers achieve targeted growth objectives.
• Develop and obtain approval for annual marketing plans and strategies for designated product ranges to enable achievement of targeted growth and profit objectives.
• Monitor and control business office income and expenditure to ensure profitability.
• Recommend the creation of risk assets to increase business office profitability.
• Visiting business customers and attending meetings.
• Representing the bank within the wider community.
• Contribute to the effective launching of new products to ensure favorable market response and optimum build-up of revenue.
• Facilitating, establishing and maintaining effective relationships with new and existing customers.
• Evaluate market research and competitor analyses in order to formulate marketing plans and strategies.
• Assuming overall accountability for branch expenditure on products and services, such as the administration of consumer lending, current account transactions, overdrafts, credit cards and personal loans.
• Monitor and assign targets to PCMs/business officers to ensure effective focus on target achievement.
• Maintain and acquire customer relationships to improve deposit liability growth and mix.
• Providing strategic direction and operational support to employees.
• Defining and implementing the delivery of marketing strategies and targets.
• Coaching and motivating employees to effectively execute their day-to-day tasks to meet corporate targets and delivery objectives.
• Effectively communicating to employees the corporate policies, objectives and targets of the bank.

Minimum Educational Qualification and Experience

• First Degree in any related discipline with a minimum of second class lower.
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience required

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Banking operations, policies and procedures.
• Bank products and services.
• Business development and acquisition.
• Relationship management.
• Ability to evaluate the needs of customers, and determine what products or services would best serve those needs.
• Interpersonal skills.
• IT and Computer appreciation
• Communications skills(written and oral).
• Selling and marketing skills.
• Must be self-solution-driven, proactive, and have acceptable knowledge of the business environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Supervisory skills.

Application Closing Date
18th November, 2022.