What We'll Bring:
We Are TransUnion:
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.
What You'll Bring:
The Head of Emerging Solutions will identify and assess opportunities and partnerships in the region, around innovation, new business lines, major strategic initatives, and support the development of product strategies to support the growth agenda.
Based on industry knowledge, client needs, regulatory frameworks and market dynamics they will work with key stakeholders to help the organization make go/no go decisions on new opportunities through robust business casing and evaluation processes. They will work to enable global IP diffusion by partnering with business owners, product managers and other senior leaders to develop product strategies.
They will prioritise solution-related investments and resource allocation to optimize financial results, with a focus on the long term product roadmap, crafting the Solutions strategy in alignment with the rest of the Organization.
This role is responsible for Solutions innovation from ideation to execution in partnership with Product teams.
Day to Day You’ll Be:
1. Designs, facilitates and manages the evaluation process to determine a go/no go decision on new business opportunities, partnerships and innovation cases from Solutions’ perspective.
2. Supports the development of robust product strategies to help drive the growth agenda by partnering with S&P, Analytics, Business owners and Product Managers.
3. Partners with key stakeholders to build the information required to develop a point of view and recommendation on partnership opportunities, strategic decisions, and resource allocation.
4. Generates new ideas for, and leads the assessment and business case development of, new product development opportunities with the business owners, product managers, Strategy and Planning lead, COE heads and with global knowledge experts to facilitate and enable import/export of global IP.
5. Other related duties within the Solutions team, such as alignment of forecasting, planning, product pipeline and tracking, with the strategic roadmap.
6. Play a lead role in managing new partnerships until such time as the partnership is operationalized.
Essential Skills & Experience:
7. MBA degree with global strategy experience or experience with strategy consulting would be preferred.
8. Strong experience, in Consulting Services and/or driving strategic initiatives with focus on Product or Risk Management in Financial Services.
9. High degree of intellectual curiosity with a successful track record of driving ideas to implementation.
10. Strong knowledge of TransUnion solutions and competitive positioning
11. Financial and/or credit industry subject matter expertise, with focus on Product Management, Product Development and Strategy.
12. Excellent project management capabilities and high attention to detail; comfortable working under deadlines and producing key deliverables.
13. Sound business judgment and excellent problem solving and influencing skills.
14. Proficient financial, analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills.
15. Proven ability to quickly grasp industry and business-wide concepts in order to assess implications to drive actions and to capitalize on opportunities.
Impact You'll Make:
What’s In It For you?
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:
16. 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
17. Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
18. A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
19. Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
20. Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart
TransUnion – a place to grow:
If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.
We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together
Flexibility at TU:
We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.
Additional support:
At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting
Interview & Hiring Process:
Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.
We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.
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This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
TransUnion Job Title
Director, Product Management