Manager: Fleet Card JV & Alliances at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Are you a fleet card expert with alliances experince? Here is an exciting career opportunity for you. In this role you will design a Joint Venture Alliance Strategy with Oilco & Digital players to supplement our current Fleet Card plan.
• You will execute on this Strategy by aligning Product, Legal, Commercial and Operational requirements. The role entails driving sales efforts across Absa (in partnership with Head of Fleet Card Sales) by designing campaigns and marketing plans in time to build additional revenue streams with other partners.

Job Description

Product/Proposition Design and Development

• Provides the design and development of new and existing Projects/Propositions, taking to market and run of compelling and commercially viable product propositions spanning the product lifecycle. 
• Drives innovation around the product development and management cycle. 
• Prepare business cases for new product developments. 
• Manage marketing collateral of commercial asset finance 
• Responsible for the operational query resolution of aspects of the respective product 
• portfolio relating to commercial asset finance. 

Risk and Issue Management

• Ensuring an optimal and compliant control environment for the product portfolio in commercial asset finance.  
• Recognised internally as First Line of Defence (1LOD) in risk and issue management and has links to broader risk SME network internally and externally and across Absa. 
• Implements recommendations to enhance risk management techniques internally. 

​​​​​​​Stakeholder Management

• Ensures service delivery is in line with SLA’s (internal and external stakeholders) 
• Drive interaction with all relevant Infrastructure areas across the business in addressing product management requirements and priorities. 
• Drive relevant communication related to product changes or new product implementations. 
• Participate in Group-level activities and forums that impact the respective Product portfolio. 
• Effectively communicate developments within areas of activity to all relevant internal and external stakeholders. 

Finance

• Monitor financial performance of JV and Alliance portfolio 
• Assist in compiling Medium term plans (MTP) and Short Term Plans (STP) budgets on an annual basis and track performance against these budgets 
• Understand financial impact of product development and marketing activities in order to align with budgets available 

Product Management

• Collaborates with the respective stakeholders in ensuring that Product value propositions seamlessly integrate into segment and sector value propositions to support and enable the acquisition and retention of customers in specific segments and sectors to support the targeted commercial and customer shapes. 
• Management and coordination of activities relating to roll out of new products and product enhancements. 
• Responsible for updates and change of product and process documentation. 
• Provides exception reporting on rate and fee deviations and revenue leakage in maintaining key product performance indicators for the respective Product portfolio 
• Implementation of new product or changes to existing products into the business. 

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

End Date: October 29, 2025