Paul Buchanan

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Ecommerce, mobile payments, SaaS, product manager and business developer
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Greater Sydney Area, Australia
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I am a highly experienced and successful digital commerce product manager with senior management experience across a variety of industries, including fintech, e-commerce, transportation, telecommunications, music and media.I am passionate about innovation that has a customer centric approach and will apply my knowledge of strategy and execution to launch complex projects to achieve successful business outcomes, alongside high volume consumer adoption. I have business management and leadership skills honed from both start-up and corporate environments and I understand the value of clear communication and effective stakeholder management.I have presented to many high profile businesses and relationship managed large companies, including State governmentsAs a product manager, I have experience of full lifecycle management. Proven capability to define, launch and lead major, complex and strategic initiatives. Specialty skills in deploying digital products in the physical world. I am a payments specialist, having brought to life several complex payment features from concept to launch at PayPal, Commonwealth Bank and Cubic Transportation. This includes in-app and mobile payments, NFC, tokenisation, order ahead, POS, digital wallets, contactless, gateway management and payments orchestration. I have professional accreditation in product management, scrum product owner, project management, human centred design and business management. I am well versed in Agile methodologies and Agile at scale.Key Capabilities:Full life cycle product managementPayments and ecommerce specialistAbility to build effective partnerships between large corporations and innovative start upsE2E business solutions. Covering: business strategy, technical integration, product management, payments, UX, go to market executionStrong organisational skills to manage people working on multi-faceted projects with technical complexity and deliver consumer ease of useSound knowledge of contract negotiation with rights holders, retail, telco, tech agencies and media companies to forge new business modelsSpeaker at numerous conferences across Australia, Paris, Mumbai, HK and Singapore

Paul Buchanan's Current Company Details

Ecommerce, mobile payments, SaaS, product manager and business developer
Paul Buchanan Work Experience Details
  • Commonwealth Bank
    Ecommerce Product Manager
    Commonwealth Bank Dec 2021 - Jul 2024
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Bringing new, customer focused, ecommerce solutions to life. From concept validation (technical and consumer), solutioning, stakeholder engagement to go to market project planning. Payment orchestration focused on small to medium businesses.
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  • Mobilityx
    Gm Australia
    Mobilityx Jul 2019 - May 2021
    Sydney, Australia
    "Organizing urban transport, simplifying mobility"​mobilityX provides integrated “mobility-as-a-service” (MaaS) solutions to commuters and companies. Through strategic partnership, payment services and data analytics, it offers commuters various urban mobility options for door-to-door travel through an integrated platform
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  • Goanna Solutions
    Project Manager - Indigenous Astronomy Education Program
    Goanna Solutions Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Helping to deliver an 8 week program to indigenous highschool girls on the topic of Indigenous Astronomy. Combining ancient aboriginal knowledge with modern science to help motivate first nations girls to consider science as a career option.
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  • Cubic Corporation
    Regional Director Of Product
    Cubic Corporation Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
    Sydney, Australia
    Responsible for all product lines in APAC for Cubic Transportation: Back Office, Mobile, Devices, Tolling & Transportation Management Platform. Cubic is transitioning from being project based to becoming a Product lead organisation. My gig is to help achieve this transition.Cubic is the technology behind some of the world's largest public transport agencies, such as TfNSW (Opal), Transport for London (Oyster), Chicago (Ventra), New York (MTA) & Brisbane (Go card) to name a few. Like many industries, transportation is undergoing massive disruption and change for the better thanks to technology advancements. Digital, Cloud, SaaS, Mobile, AI, NFC, Data Management, Service Operations are all radically changing transport. Mobility as a Service is the endgame. Cubic's goal is to make urban transport better, faster & safer by improving systems and collecting and analyzing data.
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  • Paypal
    Head Of Mobile Business / Global Product Owner Nfc
    Paypal Oct 2010 - Jun 2016
    Sydney, Australia
    Responsibilities:Manager of design, development, content, legal, risk, compliance and usability testing of the NFC payment feature in PayPal's new global consumer app. Android HCE only.Product Owner of 6 person dev team in Singapore - working in agile.Manage 3rd party design and tech company, negotiate MSA contract.Senior role in developing offline/POS go to market strategy for AUDeveloped and launched PayPal AU's mobile strategy, building mobile into the 'DNA' of the company. Chief evangelist for all things mobile: working on strategies/partnerships ranging from major brands to disruptive start ups. Achievements:Oversaw the growth of PayPal mobile payment volumes in Au from $70M in 2010 to $3B+. in 2015. AU is Paypal's best performing mobile market.Key stakeholder in launching PayPal into the offline realm, developing solutions and strategic partnerships at Point of Sale, with the PayPal mobile wallet as the key instrument. Working on innovative payment solutions such as order ahead, check-in and pay-at-table, all featured in the PayPal app.Thorough knowledge of HCE NFC in-app payments.PayPal "Club Excellence" Award winner in 2013.Speaker at numerous events on mobile payments and digital commerce in Aust, HK, S'pore,Paris.
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  • Metaphoric Digital
    Director
    Metaphoric Digital Jun 2009 - Oct 2010
    Sydney, Australia
    Launched own consultancy for digital business. Strategy, content management and licensing. Designed to help commercialise digital content of any kind by optimising both back-end content management and front-end User experience. Clients included Sony Music, EMI, Universal, Mnet, Vodafone Hutchison.Main project: Project and Clent Relationship manager, Vodafone/VHA for MNet. Merging of Vodafone and 3 content platforms when the two companies merged to form VHA (now Vodafone).
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  • Soundbuzz
    General Manager
    Soundbuzz 2002 - 2009
    Sydney, Australia
    Grew Soundbuzz business from start up to $8M gross annual turnover. Soundbuzz acquired by Motorola in Feb 2008.Sole music content supplier to Telstra's online music store Bigpondmusic 2004 - 08Sole music service provider to Optus 2004 - 2009First company in Australasia to deliver music downloads to both mobile and computer in one transaction (dual delivery) with partner OptusFirst company worldwide to offer a voucher redemption model, online music store for Dick Smith/Woolworths Group with "Ripit" music store (2005 - 2009)Speaker at numerous digital media conferences in across Australia as well as Paris, Mumbai, HK and SingaporeProvided music industry with its own ringtone delivery solution, using premium SMS, used by each major label's website and digital marketing teamsDevised award winning ringtone delivery business model for the music industry to services clients such as Sony, Warner, EMI, Channel Ten, Universal, Nova, Big W and Triple J
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  • Soundbuzz
    Marketing Director
    Soundbuzz Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
    Developed many digital promotional campaigns with each of the major labels for artists such as: Delta Goodrem, Powderfinger, Oasis, Missy Higgins and Hilary DuffDevised promotional, timed out download campaigns for above artist in publications such as Sun Herald, Daily Telegraph, Rolling Stone, SMH and Smash Hits MagazineManaged ninemsn music content editorial
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  • Pacific Circle Music Expo
    Event Director
    Pacific Circle Music Expo Jan 1997 - Jan 2000
    Australian Music Industry Conference with international standing. Founded by industry veteran and concert promoter Michael Chugg and APN Miller Freeman (world's largest exhibition company). The event brought the entire Australian music industry together with international speakers and performers. Achieving many signings of artists, international publicity and industry education at all levels
  • Sony Music Entertainment
    Label Manager, Australian Artists
    Sony Music Entertainment 1989 - 1993
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Paul Buchanan Skills

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