Platform Strategy Management - Credit Transformation

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BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121,000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers and designers.

Why Join Us

Are you passionate about financial markets and transformation? At BBVA, you’ll work at the forefront of wholesale banking innovation, helping shape the future of our Global Markets platform. Join a high-impact team driving change with a modern, technology-led mindset.

You’ll be exposed to how disruptive technologies and a fast-changing environment are transforming investment banking — and play a key role in designing and delivering that change.

About the Team:

Area: CIB / Global Markets / Quantitative & Business Solutions / Platform Strategy Management

You’ll be part of BBVA’s Quantitative & Business Solutions group – a diverse, global team of 50+ professionals (engineers, economists, mathematicians) who combine deep financial knowledge with tech-savvy mindsets.

Working under agile methodologies, your assignment will evolve quarterly, contributing to both functional support for Sales/Trading and strategic platform evolution projects.

Our mission: help Global Markets convert strategy into real, productive outcomes — through smarter, more agile, and user-centric solutions

About the job:

We’re seeking a strategic leader with deep Front Office experience and a hands-on approach to transformation. As Credit Program Manager, you’ll guide initiatives focused on Credit Markets, helping turn strategy into reality with a clear end-to-end vision.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead global transformation initiatives for Credit businesses.
• Collaborate with the Sales and Trading teams to define short-term, medium-term, and long-term project goals.
• Contribute to the design of new processes/solutions and the execution of new projects by providing expert criteria and experience in processes & project management.
• Drive improvements across the full product vale chain, from negotiation/origination to risk and accounting.
• Identify and implement enhancements in platforms, workflows, and decision-making tools.
• Explore and lead new tech initiatives, evaluating relevance and fit for Global Markets.
• Proactively spot weaknesses and improvement opportunities, delivering actionable solutions.

Minimum experience and skills:

• Academic background in Engineering, Maths, Business Administration, Economics, or equivalent
• C1 level English
• At least 7-10 years’ experience working in the Front Office
• Broad knowledge of credit markets: DCM, Secondary, Derivatives, Lending business (end-to-end understanding of the lending value chain — from origination and underwriting, to syndication, securitisation, and "originate-to-distribute" strategies.)
• Understand pricing, negotiation, and risk management processes from both a functional and technical perspective
• Broad knowledge of the whole product value chain (FO, BO, Accounting, Risk, etc.)
• Broad participation in strategic transformation plans.
• Relevant experience in process transformation and organizational changes
• Digital and open mindset, being able to challenge the status quo
• Expertise in teamwork and interacting with different areas
• Deep knowledge of Front Office tools (Murex, Bloomberg, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Office package (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and Google tools

Optional:

• MBA, Master's Degree in Finance or other official certifications (CFA, FRM, etc.)
• Programming skills
• Additional languages