**Closing date**: Monday 21st July 2025
We've never been 'just a bank'. Just like you should never be 'just an employee'. We're united in our belief that in banking, better can be bigger, and together we're making it happen.
Are you passionate about process optimisation and product strategy?
**It starts here. With Bendigo Bankand you.**
As a Product Improvement Manager, you'll play a key role in lifting product management processes to reduce risk, streamline operations, and boost productivity.
Reporting to the Senior Manager Product Delivery, you'll work across the Products and Analysis teams, identifying opportunities for smarter, more efficient ways of working. You'll harness data, digital tools, and your stakeholder management skills to streamline workflows, reduce manual handling, and drive innovation in how we manage our product portfolio.
You'll be a key player in embedding our Product Lifecycle Framework and championing continuous improvement. From process mapping to regulatory risk awareness, you'll be across it all — ensuring our product governance is both compliant and future fit.
If you're a collaborative problem-solver who thrives on improving systems, simplifying complexity, and influencing change across a wide stakeholder base, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Identify, design, and implement technology driven enhancements to product management processes, with a focus on reducing manual processes, increasing automation, and improving overall efficiency.
- Support the uplift of governance practices by embedding improvements into the Product Lifecycle Framework, managing compliance requirements and proactively identifying areas of operational risk.
- Collaborate with teams to align improvements with strategic goals, share insights, and champion a culture of continuous improvement across the Products and Analysis teams.
**To succeed in this role, we'd love you to have**:
- Proven experience in process improvement and product governance, ideally within financial services
- An understanding of product lifecycle frameworks and risk management principles
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement technology enabled process enhancements
- Confidence in engaging and influencing stakeholders across multiple levels and functions
- Deep working knowledge of digital tools and automation technologies to drive productivity
- High level verbal and written communication skills, with a collaborative working style
- A continuous improvement mindset with a passion for driving change and innovation
- Experience working with data to inform decisions and identify improvement opportunities
- Tertiary qualifications in business, finance or a related (desirable)
We offer flexible work options with a hybrid mode of minimum** 60% on site attendance**, in a local Head Office.
This is a **Permanent,** **Full-time** position based at any of our head office locations.