Demand Manager

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.

Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values — Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kualaza Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliver innovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation. 

About the Department

The Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.

Job Responsibilities

You will be responsible for leading the resource capability and demand allocation for UOB Innovation Hub 2 (IH2). You will be working with the Head of Delivery together with  the Department Leads (DL) to come up with the demand planning, shaping and track the demand fulfilment within IH2.

Other responsibilities include:

• Act as primary point of contact for IH2 DLs in accepting incoming demand, work effort allocation, and identifying the best fit resource for each demand to maximize fulfilment of demands and resource chargeability
• Tracking role fulfilment, making sure the resource demand is fulfilled as per plan
• Work with multi vendors to source for candidates for the needs of the domains and managing the relationship with the vendor to deliver to plan
• Performing vendor performance activities towards demand fulfilment and resource quality – you will need to be able to measure the quality and quantity of demand fulfilment
• Inventorize resources’ skills and availability, developing a view of resources’ projected chargeability based on demand outlook
• Working with Procurement on the Work Order demands and/or change requests in terms of resources demand, and see-through execution of plan, working with relevant stakeholders
• Consolidate & leverage lessons learnt from operationalization to drive continuous improvement in demand & capacity management.
• Drive transition of demand and capacity tracking to PPM
• Reports the resouce demand insights to upper management on a regular cadence

Job Requirements

• At least 8 - 10 years of working experince in Resource Management or Resource planning or equivalent is preferred
• Has hands-on experience liaising with vendors and setting the benchmarks according to company's requirement
• Strong understanding of business application across banking industries and the tech skills landscape
• Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive understanding and information exchange across all stakeholders

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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