As one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Explore a career at Fitch Ratings and you’ll join a collaborative network of curious minds. Here, our differences are our strengths - in life as well as our work. Together we work with integrity and objectivity to provide clarity to the world’s financial markets. We pride ourselves on our ability to harness the ideas, expertise, and professionalism of our global workforce, which is integral to our continued success. The accessibility and depth of experience of our industry leading analysts, combined with our broad sector credentials, allow us to help market participants make important credit decisions with confidence.

Fitch Ratings is currently seeking a Director based out of our Manchester office.  

About the Team:

Ratings Workflow Solutions is a cross functional team responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and building the ratings applications and processes that our Ratings staff use to do their jobs.

The goal of Ratings Workflow Solutions is to deliver continuous improvement, mitigate risks, and deploy standardization and automation within Fitch’s Ratings applications and workflows. 

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

• We're looking for an organized and analytically driven individual with 7+ years of experience who wants to grow their skills in strategic planning and product management.
• This person works collaboratively across our 5 Product areas to support roadmap development, execute planning processes, and track progress against business outcomes.
• Based in Manchester and reporting to the Head of Strategic Planning, they will help maintain and grow this centralized function.
• In this role, they will support the creation and maintenance of a tribe-level view of feature roadmaps, quarterly business reviews, and a framework for tracking business benefits.
• They are a strong team player who works well across various teams to promote standardized reporting. They should have excellent communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning: Lead the creation and implementation of strategic product roadmaps and timelines to align with organizational objectives.
• Objective Setting:  Manage Objective & Key Results (OKRs) framework for quarterly and annual planning.
• Performance Assessment: Assess product progress against roadmaps and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• KPI Management: Collaborate with Tribe Lead to establish, measure, and integrate key performance indicators (KPIs) into the product lifecycle.
• Budget Oversight: Serve as the finance/budget liaison, managing expense and capital planning. Manage headcount and resource allocation to maximize team efficiency and return on investment (ROI).
• Collaboration: Partner with Tribe Lead, Product Owners, and Chapter Leads to ensure alignment and clear communication across teams
• Communication: Establish standardized management and stakeholder reporting.  Support clear and effective communication, tailoring messages for diverse audiences, including senior management and technical teams

You May be a Good Fit if:

• Bachelor's Degree and 7+ years of experience with product coordination, project/process management or business analysis
• Strong Agile practitioner
• Proven track record of strategic planning and delivering workflow solutions at scale
• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint

What Would Make You Stand Out: 

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to excel in a high-demand, matrixed organization
• Prior experience in financial services or a consulting environment beneficial but not essential

Why Choose Fitch: 

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law. 

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