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Senior Credit Manager, Acquisition Policy and Product
Apollo Agriculture, Netherlands
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Jan 25, 2022
Last Date
Feb 25, 2022
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Job Description
About Apollo Agriculture:Apollo Agriculture is the commercial farming platform that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits. Apollo’s ML-powered credit models and automated operations technology unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market, starting in Kenya. With optimized financing, high-quality farm products, and digital advice, Apollo farmers are already more than doubling their farm profitability. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired for USD $1 Billion), Google, Capital One and One Acre Fund. We value evangelical pursuit of mission with a pragmatic approach, humility in the face of challenge, active discussion of disagreements, and considerate listening.
About the Role:Apollo is seeking an experienced and analytically driven professional to lead the credit product and acquisition strategy for financing agricultural inputs and advice for our end consumers (farmers). The Senior Credit Manager is accountable for improving the profitability and scale of our products while managing credit risk by optimizing the credit product terms and acquisition policy. As we expand as a business, the manager will also be accountable for growing the credit organization within the company and will be able to manage and retain top talent. Your Day-to-Day: - Acquisition Credit Policy Development and Optimization: Own and maintain the credit approval process to maximize profitability while being within risk appetite.
- Credit Product Strategy and Optimization: Own the optimization of credit product terms (e.g. APR, Deposit, Tenure, Exposure), structure and user experience to maximize profit and product usage.
- Monitoring and Control: Develop and maintain a monitoring framework for through-the-door distributions and acquisition performance by developing and tracking relevant metrics within proposed control limits. Ensure intent meets execution by developing and maintaining an implementation monitoring and control framework.
- User Research: Identify and execute user research through in-person visits and surveys for target consumers (farmers) to inform the product and acquisition policy design.
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Work with our collections, customer management, product, logistics amp; distribution, sales, and customer support teams to ensure that all systems support smooth product implementation and launch
- Team Development: Develop the credit team by identifying, recruiting and retaining great talent and be accountable for the teams and team members growth and development.
- Learning agenda and experiments: Drive the credit risk learning agenda by ensuring relevant design of experiments and control of experimentation risk and budget.
You:- Are a professional with advanced knowledge of credit and risk management with 10-15 years of relevant experience. This includes: 1) Experience managing a consumer lending portfolio and credit risk, preferably for underserved consumers in developing economies 2) Experience in developing or optimizing credit products (credit cards, line of credit, personal loans etc.) for retail consumers
- Are a data-driven problem solver with experience using data science and AI to underwrite consumers and make business decisions to optimize profit
- Possess exceptional skill leading, developing and managing high performing teams, with a minimum of 5 years of leadership/managerial experience
- Are an exceptional communicator with the ability to effectively and efficiently communicate complex information and analytical strategy
- Are an exceptional leader that can influence without authority
- Have a graduate degree in courses requiring and developing analytical problem solving and mathematical ability (e.g. engineering, statistics, mathematics, economics etc.)
We:- Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers.
- Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise.
- Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve.
- Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree.
- Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth.
- Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment.
- Back up our talk with a competiti
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Apollo Agriculture
Information Technology and Services - Amsterdam, Netherlands