Head of P&D Business Management

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

We are seeking an experienced, strategic, and highly structured leader to head the Business Management domain within the Product & Development (P&D) business area, specifically within Product Delivery & Quality division.

In this role, you will ensure the P&D organisation operates smoothly, transparently, and in alignment with strategic and financial priorities.

You will lead a domain encompassing Financial Planning, Quarterly Product Planning (or also known as QBR), Reporting, and Communications – while personally driving key strategic, organisational, and leadership initiatives.

This role requires strong business acumen, willingness to drive the change providing input, excellent communication skills, and the ability to partner effectively across senior leadership, technology teams, Controlling, HR, Corporate Communications, Vendor Management, and other business functions.

Your key tasks

• Drive P&D business strategy and ensure alignment across all divisions
• Coordinate organisational design, workforce planning, and leadership offsites
• Own processes around positions approvals, external workforce approvals, data access governance, and support organisational changes
• Oversee financial planning across P&D organisation, including APC, budgeting, forecasting, and TPR/TSR preparation and partner with Controlling to ensure consistent financial governance and reporting in order to support divisional leaders in financial steering
• Own and evolve the PMO service for P&D business area
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and alignment with respect to capacity, demand, and budget
• Act as escalation point for prioritisation and planning conflicts or inconsistencies
• Define, evolve, and prioritise the P&D reporting landscape
• Ensure clear, reliable insights are available for senior leadership decision making
• Own P&D-wide communication strategy, including newsletters, Business Talks, and town-halls
• Ensure P&D newsletters are issued timely, are engaging, and aligned with Corporate Communications
• Lead and coach your team, fostering collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Define expectations, operating rhythms, and capability development across the Business Management organisation
• Drive a culture of trust, clarity, and operational excellence

 

• Proven experience as a leader specifically in business management within a technology company, finance, or PMO in a complex organisation
•  You will exhibit strong financial acumen and experience with budgeting, forecasting, and controlling
• Ability to translate strategy into structure, processes, and measurable outcomes
• Strong track record of working with data, reporting tooling, and KPI frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills at executive level
• Ability to lead through complexity, prioritise across competing demands, and handle sensitive topics with discretion
• Experience of leading and managing a team and developing their performance
• Solid experience in driving meaningful transformation in planning, reporting, communication, and strategy

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.