# Head Digital Business

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Company: The Corporate Bank

Category: Accounting

Location: Uganda, Kampala, Central Region

Work type: Full-time

Work arrangement: On-site

Published: 2026-09-18

Expires: 2026-10-16

## Job Description

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial (30%)
Own and drive the growth of the Digital Business P & L. Define budgets and measurable goals for the U Digital Business.Create alignment across Digital Business eco-systems in order to optimize resource allocation, minimize duplication and jump-start innovation.Develop risk appetite thresholds that balance between risk avoiding and risk seeking behaviours, allowing the  Digital Business to extract value from existing red oceans while innovating to discover blue oceans.Ensure growth and retention of superior margins from MSL and DFS business.Growth and diversification of  Digital Business revenue streams.  Customer (30%)Craft a robust customer value management strategy that allows  Digital Business to build deep customer insights that lead a market focused CVM centre of excellence.Build and influence internal and external stakeholder relationships that position A as a trusted collaborator for innovative digital financial services solutions; thus creating both economic and reputational value.Lead the definition and execution of the Go-To-Market (GTM)/Distribution strategy for Digital Business.Facilitate the design and execution of market communication to influence customer and stakeholder opinions.Provide leadership to business partners to ensure alignment to the Digital Business customer centric vision.    Internal Business Processes (20%)Execution of the  Digital Business governance framework.Evaluate and mitigate all risks related to the  Digital Business activities with strategic partners; including market changes, internal and external communication.Co-ordinate standardisation, alignment, and contextualization efforts of Customer Management policies and procedures.Lead the development and review of the same to achieve 100% adherence to policies, procedures and statutory guidelines.Uphold operational excellence to meet the Audit and Enterprise Risk framework.Work with the Delivery Management unit to achieve consistent and reliable execution of projects needed to deliver the required capabilities by the defined quality gauges.Regulatory engagement to assure compliance to regulation and positively influence the bank-regulator relationship. Learning and Growth (20%)Structure a fit-for-purpose customer-led growth division that puts the customer first and works backwards to deliver complete solutions.Create an entrepreneurial culture and provide professional development and coaching to help people get better at being entrepreneurs.Player-coach example setting of best practices in innovative and impactful growth across the team.Create an environment for amassing social capital allowing team members to build meaningful professional relationships beyond their business line or team.Ensure own and team compliance with all HR policies and best practice guidelines.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
University Degree in a Technology, Business Management, Commercial or other quantitative discipline.Project Management and Marketing/Service oriented trainings/Certifications are desirable.
Additional Details
Desired Work Experience
Minimum of 10 years professional experience: at least 5 years in Middle level Management capacity within an automated environment, having led successful business development projects and/or initiatives.Core Value Behaviours (Performance Drivers)Driven: We are passionate, make bold decisions and learn from our failures.We seek new challenges and appreciate different views, constantly raising the bar.We explore our full potential. Open: Our interactions are candid, honest and transparent.We listen to each other and our clients.We are inclusive and always respect each other.Responsive: We put our customer's interests at the heart of all that we do.We are proactive, act quickly and resolutely to deliver results.We keep it simple and seek new ways to improve.Trusted: As a trusted partner we do what is morally right always.We keep our word.We are accountable and believe in each other. Technical CompetenciesCommercial Strategy: Able to form a clear vision of the long-term direction and shape of the commercial arm of the business.Able to understand, appreciate and see the bigger picture, and demonstrate their breadth of thinking.Consistently aligns short-term actions to long term goals for revenue growth.Can use an extremely broad range of influencing approaches, tactics and styles in order to engage effectively with the stakeholder landscape, whilst recognising the cultural context.Naturally inquisitive and successful in researching key issues.Can reflect on what needs to happen next, what might get in the way, and therefore what needs to be put in place to sustain progress.Is aware of what constitutes best practice in the commercial and Fintech sector and strives to deliver this.Creates a commercial and customer oriented team framework that empowers staff members with appropriate capacity and authority level (based on knowledge, skills and competence) to achieve consistent outcomes that feed to overall strategy.Effective in establishing appropriate goals and objectives and regularly mentors the team to achieve delivery on time and within budget.Business Analysis: Assess the organisation's vision, goals, objectives, and strategies to identify the desired future.Can analyse the existing organisational structure, policies, politics, problems, opportunities, technology, etc., to build a compelling business case for change.Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues and leads process, product or service improvements.Safeguards ROI of the organisation by ensuring the right investments are being made at the right time for the right reasons.Project Management: Inculcates a culture of project management excellence – project leadership, accountability, high-performance teams, customer and market focus, robust solutions, alignment, discipline, speed and quality.Implements incentives and metrics to support such agility.Product Knowledge: Expert-level knowledge of product(s): (a) in-depth understanding of global product offering, design, application, positioning within segments, pricing, revenue potential; (b) integration to existing product offering; (c) relationship to complementary, related and competing products, etc.Financial Acumen: Understands financial concepts and terms, can use them to describe events and can incorporate the same in problem solving and decision making. Behavioural CompetenciesEmotional Intelligence: Knows own strengths and limits; aware of own emotions and the effect they have on others and has the self-control to keep disruptive emotions and impulses in check.Social and Cross-cultural Awareness: Interacts with people (colleagues, customers, stakeholders and the public at large) in different social and cultural environments, showing respect and positive regard for them in a manner that is consistent with the values of the organization.Agile: Able to change plans, methods, opinions or goals in light of new information, with the readiness to act on opportunities.Highly effective in adapting to differing environments.Inculcates a digital mind-set in the organization, institutionalising cross-functional collaboration, flattening hierarchies, devolving decision making to smaller teams, and building environments that creatively partner with external companies to extend necessary capabilities to encourage the generation of new ideas and developing more iterative and rapid ways of doing things.Implements incentives and metrics to support such agility.Self-Development: Have a strategic approach to personal and professional development, actively seeking feedback from others to which they will respond by establishing self-development goals.Seek to experience a range of relevant career opportunities in the context of a long term plan enabling them to deliver the truly outstanding contribution required.Leadership: Delivers results and has significant impact on an organization through the teams managed.Proactive, never reactive, and doesn't need to be told what to do.At the highest, will recognise and bring into the organisation significant opportunities where technical solutions and business opportunities meet to create strategic advantage.Is not afraid to speak their mind, and is always prepared to raise difficult issues with others in the face of actual or expected opposition from colleagues.Personally robust and self-confident in pursuit of their objectives for the customer segment and the organisation.Maintains a positive "can-do" attitude to achieve what they know needs to get done.Capable of developing a sound understanding of the motives, needs and concerns of others and developing a deep understanding of their complex stakeholder network; can anticipate the motives and expectations of others effectively.Team members feel included, valued, and trusted, such that they work in an impactful manner with each other, and with other teams.Has the emotional intelligence to understand and manage own and others' emotions.

## Requirements

bachelor degree
120

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