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SVP, Product Owner – Wealth PMS Platform
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SVP, Product Owner – Wealth PMS Platform
SVP, Product Owner – Wealth PMS Platform BNY Mellon | Manchester, UK
About the Role
At BNY Mellon, we shape the future of global finance with cutting-edge AI, technology, and innovative product solutions. As a leading player, we influence 20% of the world’s investible assets and drive transformative change for industries and communities. This is where bold ideas meet next-gen talent, and we’re seeking a Senior Leader to helm our Wealth Solutions PMS Platform as SVP, Product Owner.
Your work will be instrumental in refining our platform’s capability, control, and scalability while fostering a culture of strategic leadership, agility, and continuous growth. This is more than a role—it’s an opportunity to be at the forefront of wealth management innovation, shaping the solutions that shape financial futures worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
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Strategic Product Leadership
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Front product strategy for Wealth Solutions, aligning vision with business goals to diagnose gaps and propel transformational delivery.
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Own the end-to-end product roadmap, ensuring execution from idea to launch alongside operational, technological, and client-facing stakeholders.
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Define target operating models for future products or platform enhancements, refining ownership, key roles (positively if impact-driven!)
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Drive operational efficiency, ownership clarity, and cross-functional accountability across multiple teams.
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Agile Product Management
- Operate as hands-on Product Owner, coaching and guiding agile Scrum/Kanban teams in prioritization, backlog grooming, and sprint execution.
- Master writing sharp user stories and acceptance criteria, fostering cross-team alignment through DevOps practices, automation, and AI-infused enhancements where responsible and beneficial.
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Stakeholder & Requirements Leadership
- Partner with Product Managers, Technology, Operations, Sales, and external teams to synthesise requirements, manage dependencies, and execute product plans effectively.
- Act as a subject matter expert, influencing decisions with insights, data-driven analysis, and experience in high-velocity organization funding customer-centric solutions.**
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Innovation & Market Insights
- Proactively track industry trends, competitive forces, and client feedback, adjusting delivery timelines and backlogs accordingly to address risks and opportunities.
- Champion proactive advancements — through realistic exploration of AI, automation and tools to elevate quality, control, and client outcomes balletically.
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- Behavioural Leadership & Inclusivity
- Foster a culture of inclusive growth by mentoring junior colleagues, providing modern leadership guidance forms of in-client confusion through project delivery pressure points.
- Drive accountability by inspiring rather than mandating — helping leaders lead both in and alongside ambiguous terrain while complex solving multi-faceted challenges.
Requirements
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Experience & Expertise
- Proven 10+ years (Senior+ Executive) as a Product Owner or equivalent senior product role, specifically advancing complex change in a regulatory financial domain.
- Proven success delivering digital-first initiatives across a global scale.
- Extensive experience in Wealth Management/Private Banking/Wealth Solutions (preferred, with an essential focus on Portfolio Management Systems).
- A well-earned record of product conception, development, market fit and steady evolution post-launch.
- Demonstrated ability as a technical subject matter expert to guide teams and counterparts through complex delivery artifacts.
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Methodologies & Knowledge
- Hands-on Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe-certified expertise, with experience isolating assignments into nimble sprints while managing concurrent delivery priorities.
- A must-have capability to translate complex financial concepts into digestible, insightful business concepts, data-driven priorities & decisions.
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Education
- Determination in managing dynamic technical and program briefing.
- Preferred: Masters/Degree or professional certification in commercial product orientation, statistics, risk management, technology, or relevant domains/network-specific training such as CSPO, SAFe, or similar.
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Key Behaviours
- Exceptional developed and TL-driven spoken/written communication – demonstrable at executive and cross-enterprise sharpening influence skills.
- Strong 'translator' for technical jargon into actionable strategies, leveraging reflective and observational skills — with a flair for clear (at scale) multi-disciplinary roles — talent qualifying needs.
- Their curious mind, domain acumen, and statistically nurtured decision-making skills delivering against Agile to sprint-operational units.
- Cultivating an environment of executable accountability alongside fostering what collaboration, growth competition in disciplines.
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- Organizational Fit
- Requires an environment-capturing energy and talent intellect to manage multiple high-velocity initiatives across cross-team silos adroitly — balancing resource allocation and decision-making predictably.
About BNY Mellon
We’re more than just financial services. We’re a global force for good, enabling clients to build and safeguard their legacies. Here’s how we stand out:
✅ Trusted reputation: Recognised as one of Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies (2025), World’s Most Admired Companies (2025), and a “Most Just Companies” by Just Capital: (Binary) - The London Stock Exchange is featured on Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in all five financial tech spheres.
Our Stop What You're Doing Awards and 24th Annual Financial Services Diversity Award: Evidence of our active commitment to inclusion, innovation, and strategic optimization.
Our Benefits & Rewards
At BNY Mellon, we strive to support your aspirations, physical and mental well-being along with diversification sacrifices and personal growth of ideas.
- ✔ Flexible Global Resources – Flexi-hours, global hybrid abilities, office time and leading way of managing your own professional transitions.
- ✔ Wellbeing & Health Initiatives – From **mental health resources (e.g. Honestly Therapy, finances management tools, wellness technology access to).
- ✔ Volunteer & Family Support - Compensation for paid leave along with access to savings-building innovative guidance and professional coaching.
BNY Mellon stands in ** Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) / Affirmative Actionapest paves for diversity** actively embracing diversity, ensuring candid application welcome commitment through protecting underrepresented ethnicities, women based-off, individuals facing challenges, protect veterans and inclusion alignment.
Interested? Ready to shape the future of Global Wealth Finance? Apply here or reach out through linkedin. Let’s build together.
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