Senior Business Lead

We’re Hiring: Business Senior Associate – Management Trainee Program

Program Title: LEAD – Learn. Explore. Accelerate. Disrupt.

Function: Financial Services

Location: Metro Manila (Hybrid)

Engagement Type: 12-Month Contractual (via Optimum Info Solution Philippines, Inc. deployed to one of our top multinational company partner)

About the Program

LEAD is a flagship leadership development program designed to cultivate future-ready business leaders. Over 12 months, you will rotate across core business verticals—shaping inclusive fintech solutions across lending, payments, insurance, and ecosystem services while driving high-impact, real-world projects.

What You’ll Do

Functional Rotations (2 Major Teams):

• Lending & Credit Ops: Design Go-To-Market (GTM) experiments, lead driver/merchant loan campaigns, support portfolio risk analysis, and collaborate with Product and Collections teams.
• Merchant Payments & QR: Streamline merchant onboarding, execute data-driven incentive programs, and support "Tap & Scan" or e-wallet ecosystem launches.
• Insurance Solutions: Conduct market research for inclusion pilots, assist with regulatory submissions, and co-design bundled products for partner networks.
• Strategic Projects & Regulatory Engagement: Incubate new initiatives (e.g., fuel cards, pay-later) and support public affairs and regulatory planning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Operations, Strategy, Risk, and Commercial teams to produce market scans, business analyses, and pilot frameworks.
• Data & Execution: Build operational dashboards, monitor KPI trackers, translate data into strategic recommendations, and contribute to user testing and sprint reviews.
• Capstone & Leadership Exposure: Solve a critical business challenge for your final capstone project, presenting your recommendations directly to executive leadership with active guidance from senior mentors.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivering high-impact results across both functional rotations.
• Navigating fast-paced, matrixed environments with a growth mindset.
• Executing a high-value capstone project solving a key strategic business objective.
• Earning a direct pathway into a permanent G4–G5 role or an extended leadership pipeline position.

Who We’re Looking For

• Experience: 2 to 5 years in fintech, banking, management consulting, digital commerce, or government financial inclusion initiatives.
• Core Competencies:
• Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Comfortable structuring ambiguous problems, analyzing data, and translating metrics into business actions.
• Execution Agility: Thrives in dynamic setups; skilled at launching pilots and managing end-to-end projects.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Excellent communicator capable of aligning diverse stakeholders across product, ops, risk, and external partners.
• Digital & Commercial Fluency: Solid grounding in platform economics, payments, credit, or digital insurance.
• Grit & Ownership: Proactive self-starter with high accountability and upward management skills.
• Mission Fit: Passionate about financial inclusion, tech-driven empowerment, and applying a "livelihood lens" to ecosystem growth.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in Google Workspace/MS Office. Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Google Apps Script, or automation tools is a strong plus.
• Values Alignment: Demonstrates core values of Heart, Hunger, Honour, and Humility.

Program Support & Sponsorship

• Executive Leadership Sponsor: Executive Sponsor
• People Operations Sponsor: People Ops Lead
• Structured mentorship, monthly 1:1 check-ins, and quarterly performance retrospectives.

Hiring Process:

• Talent Acquisition Screening
• Optimum Interview
• Business Case Assessment
• Leadership Interviews (1–2 rounds)
• Formal Offer Letter and Pre-Employment

Ready to shape the future of fintech? Submit your application and accelerate your leadership journey! You can also submit your CV to kean.gomez@theoptimum.net