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 marke