Location
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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About
This is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving the vision, implementation, and continuous optimization of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and customer onboarding processes across Wholesale and Retail Banking. This role serves as a critical bridge between business objectives and technical solutions, ensuring CRM and onboarding initiatives are aligned with broader organizational goals. This role will lead the end-to-end customer onboarding and KYC (Know Your Customer) management functions, designing and executing processes that ensure regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and exceptional client experiences. Leveraging deep domain expertise, advanced CRM technologies, data analytics, and emerging capabilities such as AI, ML, and Agentic AI, the role will deliver intelligent, seamless, and compliant customer journeys. This role demands a strong understanding of regulatory frameworks, customer experience principles, and operational excellence to support business growth, enhance customer engagement and retention, and maximize lifetime customer value through innovative and agile methodologies.
Key Accountabilities
- Define and execute the onboarding and KYC strategy for Wholesale Banking, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements (AML, FATF, Central Bank guidelines) and business objectives.
- Lead the CRM strategy across marketing, sales, and service functions to drive customer-centric growth and enhance relationship management.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across onboarding and CRM initiatives.
- Spearhead cross-functional Agile teams to deliver digital, automated onboarding solutions and CRM enhancements.
- Oversee CRM program planning, execution, and delivery, including upgrades, integrations, and new feature rollouts.
- Collaborate with Technology, Compliance, Operations, and Business teams to ensure seamless customer journeys and system interoperability.
- Establish and monitor KPIs for onboarding efficiency, compliance, customer satisfaction, CRM effectiveness, retention, and conversion rates.
- Analyze onboarding and CRM data to generate actionable insights and inform strategic decision-making.
- Act as the primary point of contact for onboarding, KYC, and CRM-related issues and escalations.
- Ensure CRM systems and onboarding processes comply with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and maintain data integrity and security.
- Provide subject matter expertise on complex onboarding and KYC cases.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in banking, with significant exposure to Wholesale Banking CRM, customer onboarding, and KYC.
- Proven expertise in Agile practices and methodologies.
- Strong technical skills, with the ability to understand, design, and implement technology-driven solutions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex use cases and solutions to business and technical stakeholders.
- Deep knowledge of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements for CRM, KYC, and onboarding in Wholesale Banking.
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Strategic thinking and execution leadership.
- Deep understanding of KYC/AML regulations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Analytical mindset with a focus on process improvement.
