Corporate Investment Solutions: Linked Product Manager
On-sitePinelands, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Job Summary
Own and steward Corporate market-linked investment solutions with end-to-end accountability for product management, technical marketing, development, and commercial performance. Drive margin optimisation, growth, and retention while ensuring products remain competitive, well-governed, and aligned to client outcomes. Act as the custodian of the market-linked investment proposition, translating strategy into defensible product design choices and partnering with investment teams on mandates, benchmarks, and risk budgets. Lead governance, risk, and regulatory oversight for product decisions, delivering monthly reporting on scorecard metrics supported by competitor intelligence and product analytics. Serve as the primary interface between investment, product, distribution, risk, finance, and operations, influencing senior stakeholders through evidence-based recommendations.
Required Qualifications
- 8–12+ years' experience in investments, product management, actuarial, or portfolio strategy roles within financial services
- Strong understanding of market-linked investment products, multi-manager solutions, mandates, benchmarks, asset allocation, unit pricing processes, performance reporting, and risk frameworks
- Proven experience operating in a high-governance, committee-driven environment
- Experience supporting growth and retention activity through client engagements, technical marketing, product analytics, monthly packs, MDDs, and competitor analysis
- Ability to balance investment integrity, regulatory discipline, and commercial outcomes
- Actuarial (FASSA/FIA), CFA, CA(SA), MBA, or equivalent quantitative finance qualification
- NQF Level 9 – Masters
Desired Qualifications
- Leveraging AI to efficiently deliver outputs is a strong advantage
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