General Manager Retail Banking Products, Retail Banking
Auckland, New Zealand
I was accountable for the end-to-end management of all retail banking products, including home loans, consumer finance (cards, personal loans and overdrafts) and deposit and transaction products. Key Achievements: • Provided strong leadership throughout Covid-19: My supportive, hands-on approach ensured that I provided motivational, trusted leadership through Covid-19. This created a positive, productive team and enabled us to design and implement a robust customer support response.• Led successful new product innovation: I designed, developed and launched several new products including the overwhelmingly successful 'Back My Build' housing product which supported customer new builds and ultimately increased housing supply and the wider economy through Covid-19.• Created a high-performing team with industry leading engagement levels: By leading with empathy, focusing on individual and team needs, assessing business requirements and establishing a revised operating rhythm, I developed a successful, cohesive team with industry-leading engagement levels. • Successfully delivered financial plans: Through carefully managing pricing, credit, promotion and distribution levers, I delivered financial plans to forecast and target levels across three financial years. This was done whilst balancing customer outcomes and ensuring market share outcomes were not negatively impacted. • Further advanced the pricing management discipline: Through my focus and leadership, we adopted a whole-of-portfolio approach to optimise for whole-of-portfolio outcomes. As a result, ASB maintained its net interest margin at a significant premium to the NZ banking industry without impacting market share.• Enhanced and evolved ASB credit risk management: Through my leadership, we strengthened our credit risk management operating rhythm and team capability to build a deeper commercial and analytical focus and then operationally adopted a more dynamic approach to credit risk management.