Head of Digital Financial Services
2026-03-02T06:28:39+00:00
KCB Bank
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FULL_TIME
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
00000
Tanzania
Banking
Management, Business Operations, Computer & IT, Banking, Finance, Customer Service, Advertising & Marketing
2026-03-13T17:00:00+00:00
8
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute the bank’s Digital Financial Services strategy aligned with overall corporate objectives.
- Lead digital transformation initiatives across channels including mobile banking, internet banking, agency banking, cards, and emerging platforms.
- Identify new digital business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
- Drive innovation to maintain competitive advantage and market leadership.
- Champion a customer-centric digital culture across the bank.
Governance and Risk Management
- Ensure there is a robust governance framework for all digital services.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.
- Oversee digital risk management including cyber security, fraud prevention, data protection, and operational resilience.
- Ensure effective controls across digital operations and third-party relationships.
Product Development and Innovation
- Lead end-to-end lifecycle management of digital products and services.
- Oversee design, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement of digital solutions.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies such as fintech integrations, APIs, artificial intelligence, and digital payments.
- Ensure products meet customer needs, usability standards, and commercial objectives.
Business Growth and Performance
- Deliver growth in digital transactions, customers, revenues, and market share.
- Establish KPIs and performance dashboards for digital services and products.
- Monitor profitability and return on investment of digital initiatives.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with telecoms, fintechs, payment networks, and technology providers.
- Lead negotiations and commercial arrangements with partners.
- Expand the Bank’s digital ecosystem to support payments, lending, savings, and lifestyle services.
- Manage and drive business delivery across all delivery channels (ATM, Internet banking, mobile banking, merchant acquiring, E commerce, cards, Money transfer services, etc.) to achieve business targets.
Customer Experience and Service Excellence
- Ensure seamless, secure, and reliable digital customer journeys.
- Oversee service availability, uptime, and incident management.
- Use data and analytics to improve customer engagement and personalization.
- Address customer complaints and service gaps related to digital channels.
- Carry out competitor’s survey to guide development of pricing strategies, product development and customer service programs.
Team Leadership and Capability Building
- Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing multidisciplinary digital team.
- Develop talent, succession plans, and specialist skills in digital banking.
- Promote collaboration across business units, IT, risk, and operations.
- Drive digital financial service products for the bank.
- Coordinate and drive new sales and product penetration across branch network (Sales Stimulation).
- Facilitate product development and drive utilization of the same in order to achieve business targets.
DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for supervising growth of digital financial services
- Responsible for managing customer recruitment and activation of customer in the channels banking
- Managing and guide digital financial services team on handling issues and supporting customers
- To ensure quality service to Customers and managing Customer complains is done in a professional and within minimum time.
- Manage and supervising digital financial services projects to ensure are delivered and complied with procedures and policy.
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Academic & Professional
Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type[1]
- Education Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor in Banking/Finance/Marketing/IT or equivalent RQ
- Professional Qualifications IT background AA
- Master’s Degree Business Administration AA
Experience
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required
7
Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type[2]
Experience Area 1 (Channels support) 5 ES
Experience Area 2 (Customer support) 5 ES
Experience Area 3 (Banking Ops) 5 DE
Experience Area 4 (Digital Banking) 5
- Develop and execute the bank’s Digital Financial Services strategy aligned with overall corporate objectives.
- Lead digital transformation initiatives across channels including mobile banking, internet banking, agency banking, cards, and emerging platforms.
- Identify new digital business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
- Drive innovation to maintain competitive advantage and market leadership.
- Champion a customer-centric digital culture across the bank.
- Ensure there is a robust governance framework for all digital services.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.
- Oversee digital risk management including cyber security, fraud prevention, data protection, and operational resilience.
- Ensure effective controls across digital operations and third-party relationships.
- Lead end-to-end lifecycle management of digital products and services.
- Oversee design, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement of digital solutions.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies such as fintech integrations, APIs, artificial intelligence, and digital payments.
- Ensure products meet customer needs, usability standards, and commercial objectives.
- Deliver growth in digital transactions, customers, revenues, and market share.
- Establish KPIs and performance dashboards for digital services and products.
- Monitor profitability and return on investment of digital initiatives.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with telecoms, fintechs, payment networks, and technology providers.
- Lead negotiations and commercial arrangements with partners.
- Expand the Bank’s digital ecosystem to support payments, lending, savings, and lifestyle services.
- Manage and drive business delivery across all delivery channels (ATM, Internet banking, mobile banking, merchant acquiring, E commerce, cards, Money transfer services, etc.) to achieve business targets.
- Ensure seamless, secure, and reliable digital customer journeys.
- Oversee service availability, uptime, and incident management.
- Use data and analytics to improve customer engagement and personalization.
- Address customer complaints and service gaps related to digital channels.
- Carry out competitor’s survey to guide development of pricing strategies, product development and customer service programs.
- Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing multidisciplinary digital team.
- Develop talent, succession plans, and specialist skills in digital banking.
- Promote collaboration across business units, IT, risk, and operations.
- Drive digital financial service products for the bank.
- Coordinate and drive new sales and product penetration across branch network (Sales Stimulation).
- Facilitate product development and drive utilization of the same in order to achieve business targets.
- Responsible for supervising growth of digital financial services
- Responsible for managing customer recruitment and activation of customer in the channels banking
- Managing and guide digital financial services team on handling issues and supporting customers
- To ensure quality service to Customers and managing Customer complains is done in a professional and within minimum time.
- Manage and supervising digital financial services projects to ensure are delivered and complied with procedures and policy.
- Digital transformation
- Mobile banking
- Internet banking
- Agency banking
- Cards
- Emerging platforms
- Business development
- Partnership management
- Revenue generation
- Innovation
- Customer-centricity
- Governance frameworks
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Cyber security
- Fraud prevention
- Data protection
- Operational resilience
- Product lifecycle management
- Product development
- Product launch
- Emerging technologies
- Fintech integration
- APIs
- Artificial intelligence
- Digital payments
- Business growth
- Performance monitoring
- Profitability analysis
- Return on investment (ROI)
- Strategic partnerships
- Negotiation
- Commercial arrangements
- Digital ecosystem expansion
- Business delivery
- Customer experience
- Service excellence
- Customer journeys
- Service availability
- Uptime management
- Incident management
- Data analytics
- Customer engagement
- Personalization
- Customer complaint resolution
- Competitor analysis
- Pricing strategies
- Team leadership
- Talent development
- Succession planning
- Collaboration
- Sales stimulation
- Product penetration
- Bachelor’s Degree in Banking/Finance/Marketing/IT or equivalent
- IT background (Professional Qualification)
- Master’s Degree in Business Administration
JOB-69a52e17cac87
Vacancy title:
Head of Digital Financial Services
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Banking, Category: Management, Business Operations, Computer & IT, Banking, Finance, Customer Service, Advertising & Marketing]
Jobs at:
KCB Bank
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, March 13 2026
Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, March 2 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute the bank’s Digital Financial Services strategy aligned with overall corporate objectives.
- Lead digital transformation initiatives across channels including mobile banking, internet banking, agency banking, cards, and emerging platforms.
- Identify new digital business opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams.
- Drive innovation to maintain competitive advantage and market leadership.
- Champion a customer-centric digital culture across the bank.
Governance and Risk Management
- Ensure there is a robust governance framework for all digital services.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.
- Oversee digital risk management including cyber security, fraud prevention, data protection, and operational resilience.
- Ensure effective controls across digital operations and third-party relationships.
Product Development and Innovation
- Lead end-to-end lifecycle management of digital products and services.
- Oversee design, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement of digital solutions.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies such as fintech integrations, APIs, artificial intelligence, and digital payments.
- Ensure products meet customer needs, usability standards, and commercial objectives.
Business Growth and Performance
- Deliver growth in digital transactions, customers, revenues, and market share.
- Establish KPIs and performance dashboards for digital services and products.
- Monitor profitability and return on investment of digital initiatives.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with telecoms, fintechs, payment networks, and technology providers.
- Lead negotiations and commercial arrangements with partners.
- Expand the Bank’s digital ecosystem to support payments, lending, savings, and lifestyle services.
- Manage and drive business delivery across all delivery channels (ATM, Internet banking, mobile banking, merchant acquiring, E commerce, cards, Money transfer services, etc.) to achieve business targets.
Customer Experience and Service Excellence
- Ensure seamless, secure, and reliable digital customer journeys.
- Oversee service availability, uptime, and incident management.
- Use data and analytics to improve customer engagement and personalization.
- Address customer complaints and service gaps related to digital channels.
- Carry out competitor’s survey to guide development of pricing strategies, product development and customer service programs.
Team Leadership and Capability Building
- Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing multidisciplinary digital team.
- Develop talent, succession plans, and specialist skills in digital banking.
- Promote collaboration across business units, IT, risk, and operations.
- Drive digital financial service products for the bank.
- Coordinate and drive new sales and product penetration across branch network (Sales Stimulation).
- Facilitate product development and drive utilization of the same in order to achieve business targets.
DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for supervising growth of digital financial services
- Responsible for managing customer recruitment and activation of customer in the channels banking
- Managing and guide digital financial services team on handling issues and supporting customers
- To ensure quality service to Customers and managing Customer complains is done in a professional and within minimum time.
- Manage and supervising digital financial services projects to ensure are delivered and complied with procedures and policy.
MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Academic & Professional
Particulars Detail Specific Field or Qualification Need Type[1]
- Education Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor in Banking/Finance/Marketing/IT or equivalent RQ
- Professional Qualifications IT background AA
- Master’s Degree Business Administration AA
Experience
Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required
7
Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type[2]
Experience Area 1 (Channels support) 5 ES
Experience Area 2 (Customer support) 5 ES
Experience Area 3 (Banking Ops) 5 DE
Experience Area 4 (Digital Banking) 5
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 84
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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