Credit Cards Product Project Manager

About the Role

Coefficient Alliances & Ventures (Coefftalent) is seeking a Credit Cards Product Project Manager for a contract position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role supports a leading bank in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the Retail Credit Cards business. The Project Manager will be responsible for delivering strategic product launches, portfolio enhancements, and transformation initiatives.

Role Overview

The Credit Cards Product Project Manager will manage the end-to-end delivery of new products and product enhancements. This involves ensuring successful execution across various functions including business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, finance, and marketing. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product launch management within banking, cards, payments, or financial services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end planning and execution of new product launches, portfolio enhancements, and strategic initiatives within the Retail Credit Cards portfolio.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, launch roadmaps, milestone trackers, and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate activities across product, technology, operations, risk, compliance, finance, and marketing teams to ensure timely delivery against business objectives.
• Coordinate all launch readiness activities, ensuring products are operationally, commercially, and technically prepared for market launch.
• Support the development of business cases, financial models, and investment proposals for new products and strategic initiatives.
• Act as the central point of coordination among Product, Technology, Operations, Digital Banking, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Customer Experience, Marketing, and external partners.
• Coordinate approvals across Risk, Compliance, Legal, Fraud, Operations, and Regulatory teams, ensuring compliance with internal governance and regulatory standards.
• Monitor project progress, launch readiness status, and key delivery milestones, preparing executive dashboards and status reports.

Market Readiness and Commercial Support

The role involves close collaboration with Product and Marketing teams to support customer propositions, launch campaigns, and go-to-market strategies. This includes developing launch checklists, readiness assessments, and post-launch monitoring frameworks. The Project Manager will also track business case assumptions, implementation costs, and expected business benefits, analyzing customer adoption and portfolio growth post-launch to identify optimization opportunities.

Stakeholder Management and Compliance

This position requires driving alignment on project priorities, deliverables, resource requirements, dependencies, and launch timelines. Facilitating project forums, governance meetings, and stakeholder updates is essential for timely decision-making and issue resolution. The role also supports product due diligence, risk assessments, operational readiness reviews, and control validation activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Over 10 years of experience in product launch management within banking, cards, payments, or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery of new products and product enhancements.
• Proven experience coordinating across multiple business and technical functions.