Vice President - Tx Core Country Programme Lead

Job Description
Lead the successful rollout of the Core Banking Transformation Program across six countries and seven legal entities, acting as the primary bridge between country leadership and the central program delivery teams. The role is accountable for ensuring country requirements, regulatory obligations, operational readiness, and business needs are fully understood, incorporated, and delivered while protecting program objectives, standards, timelines, and quality. The individual will own country readiness, executive stakeholder engagement, risk management, and go-live preparedness, working closely with Country CEOs, COOs, regulators, and TxCore leadership to ensure successful deployment and stabilization.

Core Accountabilities

• Act as the single integration point between country leadership and central program delivery across all rollout phases.
• Protect delivery execution and country readiness across scope, requirements, governance, testing, migration, cutover, change, and operational readiness.
• Lead executive stakeholder management with Country CEOs, COOs, ManCos, business heads, and regulators.
• Coordinate dependencies across Technology, Operations, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit, Data, Testing, Migration, Change, and vendors.
• Drive proactive RAID management, escalation governance, and decision-making to protect go-live outcomes.

Location
United Arab Emirates