Product Manager - Pricing Core Data

Your work environment

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Your role

As Product Manager Pricing Data, you will report functionally to the FMGT Pricing Core Product Area lead and are responsible for the Pricing Data Product. The FMGT Pricing Core Product Area is part of the FMGT Pricing Tribe.

In this role, you are not only coordinating delivery but also functionally leading a group of Product Owners and other contributors across squads. You are accountable for driving the product vision, steering execution, and fostering the development of your team members. You ensure that the Pricing Data Product delivers maximum business value through strategic prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement.

• You combine market and systems knowledge, product management and business expertise to drive the end-to-end product vision and architecture for the pricing data product.
• Collaborate with engineering teams who are building market, trade and static data solutions.
• Closely work together with the Product Manager Pricing Engines to integrate data and pricing engine solutions      
• Steer for standardization and clear purpose with your team of Product Owners
• Drive epics and features from different programs or for strategic improvements related to your product.
• Communicate and drive the priorities of the product backlog to the IT squads and steer the delivery.
• As the main point of contact for various stakeholders (Trading, Sales, Operations, IT, Risk Management ), you will understand the challenges and identify how they can be solved.

Your responsibilities:

• You own the product (end-to-end), you are accountable for the product vision, and you define the roadmap of the product to maximise business value through ordering and prioritisation of the Product Backlog under consideration of the stakeholders’ needs.
• In prioritising the backlog, you take into account both functional and non-functional requirements such as risks, reliability, IT Run, LCM, etc.
• You are responsible for the “WHAT” a product team does; and you represent the stakeholder's voice.
• You coordinate and ensure the alignment of the Product Owners across all the squads that are delivering to your Product Backlog, in order to minimise dependencies and maximise delivery and velocity.
• You take part in quarterly prioritisation sessions (Quarterly Business Review) where you formalise the product demand and secure capacity. You also organise regular stakeholder updates where you provide product updates and escalate impediments.
• You periodically discuss and review squad performance metrics with the Product Owners in your delivery area. You ensure that the product vision remains clear across the squad members.
• You ensure adherence to Process Control Standards.
• You act as a functional leader, mentoring team members and cultivating a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.

We are looking for:

A Product Manager displaying the following behaviours:

• Ability to manage a Product in an international context.
• Ability to work successfully in multiple countries and cross functional team, make sure these different cultures and backgrounds will work together as one team; considering different habits, beliefs, languages and time-zones.
• Understanding of Financial Markets, Pricing Models and Regulations.
• Capability to steer the delivery of various initiatives with both direct and indirect influence.
• Ability to create a manage Product roadmaps and Product Vision.
• Ability to manage different stakeholders and their priorities.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop Product Owners and other team members, fostering a strong sense of purpose and accountability.
• Ability to interpret and understand IT requirements and implications.
• Strong ability to identify issues and develop effective solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate product vision and updates to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and productivity.
• Flexibility to work in our fast-paced Financial Markets environment and adapt to changing priorities and market conditions.
• Strong understanding of pricing data in the Financial Markets domain, including market, trade, and static data.

Proven track record and technical skills:

• Master’s degree level
• 5+ years’ proven track record at a Product Manager or scaled Product Owner role
• A personality and the capabilities to optimally function within an Agile environment
• Experience in realising change
• Experience with Financial Markets
• Experience in a role closely interacting with Tech organizations
• Sound experience in building and realizing Product roadmaps
• Expertise in driving and steering multidisciplinary teams (BusDevOps)
• Proven experience in project or product management across medium to large scale projects with medium to high impact
• Excellent level of English

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary indication tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

Want to apply directly?

Upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button. 

Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

About us 

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!