Product Lead, Retail and Consumer

Deloitte Deloitte · Consulting

Product Lead for Deloitte's Retail and Consumer sector, focusing on transforming technology platforms and driving innovation within financial services. The role involves leading functional workstreams on large-scale banking transformation programs, translating business requirements into solution designs, and partnering with clients and internal teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead Commercial Banking functional workstreams on large-scale banking transformation programs
  2. translating complex business requirements into actionable solution designs
  3. bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technology implementation teams
  4. work directly with commercial lending officers, treasury managers, and credit risk professionals to understand their work and help synthesize those across: current state understandings, target state hypothesis, process documentation, requirements, and / or and platform configuration decisions that drive measurable outcomes
  5. help present your team’s findings to senior client stakeholders, implement recommendations, and begin to build long-term trusted advisor relationships with client counterparts

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline)
  • 4–6+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or business transformation within a financial services institution or top-tier consulting environment
  • minimum of 2+ years of demonstrated success leading or supporting large-scale transformations (e.g., new product launches, platform migrations, or business integrations) and driving execution across long-term project lifecycles
  • 2+ years of demonstrated success driving cross-functional alignment across business, engineering and other groups to determine and deliver the best solution for complex and large-scale challenges
  • 2+ years of demonstrated working knowledge of data, technology, and digital concepts to effectively partner with technical teams
  • Ability to travel up to 50% based on client and project needs

Nice to have

  • Comfort operating in ambiguous environments, with the ability to define problem statements, structure approaches, and drive clarity
  • Proven ability to build strong client relationships, align cross-functional teams toward shared outcomes, and influence stakeholders without direct authority in complex, matrixed environments
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with experience leading complex quantitative and qualitative research (primary and secondary) to generate actionable insights
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, and compelling communications, including executive-ready presentations for both business and technical audiences
  • Proven ability to deliver structured communications to senior executives, board members, and/or regulatory audiences
  • Contribute to business development efforts, including pursuits, client presentations, and practice development initiatives
  • Coach, mentor, and develop junior team members
  • Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, M.S. Engineering, or equivalent) or relevant professional certifi

What the JD emphasized

  • 4–6+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or business transformation within a financial services institution or top-tier consulting environment
  • minimum of 2+ years of demonstrated success leading or supporting large-scale transformations
  • 2+ years of demonstrated success driving cross-functional alignment across business, engineering and other groups
  • 2+ years of demonstrated working knowledge of data, technology, and digital concepts to effectively partner with technical teams