Basler Kantonalbank
Basel
Lead Product Manager Lending Solutions (m/f)
- 05 October 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Basel
Job summary
Join the team as a Lead Product Manager for Lending Solutions! Exciting opportunity with a supportive environment.
Tasks
- Develop product strategy for Lending Solutions aligned with bank goals.
- Manage product lifecycle from idea to stable operation, ensuring quality.
- Lead teams, prioritize backlog, and analyze market trends for opportunities.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and experience in product management in finance.
- Strong analytical skills and knowledge of project management methods.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
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About the job
Nicolas, Jonas and other Lead Product Managers from the Product and Channel Management department are looking for reinforcement for the newly created role of "Lead Product Manager Lending Solutions". In other words: you!
Your new job
- Developing the product strategy for the "Lending Solutions" area, aligning it with the overall bank strategy and ensuring the market success of our credit solutions
- Managing the entire product lifecycle of credit and financing solutions and overseeing the associated advisory tools: from the idea to stable operation ("Run the Bank") including continuous improvement
- Prioritising the backlog together with the Product Owner and Business Owner, defining business requirements with specialist departments and sales, coordinating implementation
- Providing professional leadership to employees in the "Lending Solutions" product area, project management, and close collaboration with IT, sales, advisory and risk
- Analysing market trends, customer needs and competition in the credit and financing market, identifying opportunities and risks and deriving measures
- Reviewing and supporting innovations, new technologies and business models in the credit business
- Ensuring compliance with quality standards, risk and credit guidelines as well as regulatory requirements
- Stakeholder management and communication of status, milestones and challenges to management and relevant stakeholders
What we benefit from
- University degree, supplemented by banking-related training or further education.
- Several years of experience in product management and product development of credit and financing solutions in the financial industry, with end-to-end responsibility and life-cycle management across various customer segments.
- Sound expertise in project and process management (both traditional and agile) as well as the use of modern methods and tools (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Continuous Improvement, quality assurance).
- Very good understanding of business contexts as well as market and customer needs; familiarity with regulatory requirements in the Swiss financial market (e.g. FINMA)
- Leadership personality with experience in professional team leadership, development of specialist skills and optimal deployment of employees and resources
- Highly developed analytical and conceptual skills, structured and solution-oriented working style as well as broad experience in moderation, presentation and conducting workshops
- High social competence, confident appearance, targeted communication skills and the ability to mediate different interests and lead to viable solutions
- High degree of initiative, sense of responsibility and reliability, combined with enthusiasm, assertiveness and openness to change and continuous learning
How you benefit
- In addition to a bank with a long tradition, further exciting opportunities at our young, cheeky subsidiary Bank Cler to help shape the group
- Diverse and responsible tasks with scope for creativity
- Flexible working hours, opportunities for home office
- A workplace in the city centre, just a few minutes’ walk from the station
- Expect a comprehensive employment package from us? You’re right, here are the details and many other benefits
Any questions? Gladly! If it’s about professional matters, Simone Mayländer, Head of Product and Channel Management, looks forward to your call at 061 266 32 98. For all other questions about BKB, Sandra Ankli is happy to assist you.
P.S. You can save yourself the cover letter. Instead, we look forward to you answering three short questions in the application tool. Thank you!