Head of CoE | Digital Assets (Group Innovation) - Amsterdam

As the owner of our Digital Assets theme, you are the visionary and specialist for your theme; you understand the technologies involved and have extensive experience in building new business models helping our retail and business clients to be fully in control of their own digital assets (e.g., critical personal or company data). You have knowledge of banks and your drive helps us to boost our innovative capacity. You have a proven ability to make an impact at scale.

Essentially, you will build up a successful portfolio of 15-20 innovation experiments around one of the ABN AMRO innovation themes and use them to generate new business for the bank; in other words, at least two initiatives that are approved for scale-up. To this end, you will also select and coach the right entrepreneurial profiles. You will be a driver for disruptive innovation to enable our organisation to come up with new business models faster,  leveraging new technologies (e.g., Blockchain is a very relevant technology in this space). You and your team will be responsible for building the bank's new digital assets value proposition, serving as a trusted guardian of valuable data. As a bank, we have always traditionally safeguarded our customers' money and other assets. The definition of monetary assets is now expanding to include other types of asset, such as time, resources and business and personal data, which are becoming new means of exchange or payment. Are you able to develop new business models around the management and monitoring of these alternative means? Examples could include digital services for securing and sharing personal data or providing data protection as a service (for SMEs).

Your job in a few key phrases:
- Building on an innovation portfolio within the theme and using it to generate impact for the bank
- Coaching 15-20 teams to ‘maturity’
- Realising new business and with it, ultimately, new fee-based revenue
- Bringing ‘beta’ solutions to market and overseeing their scale-up
- Building and maintaining partnerships with suppliers and universities to gain early indications of the latest developments in your theme

Group Innovation's target is first and foremost bringing new business models to the market, focusing at creating great customer experience and generating fee income for the bank. The new business models are adjacent to the bank's current product lines. In addition, Group Innovation is also ABN AMRO's center of expertise that is helping the bank to further empower its innovation capabilities through sharing methods and expertise regarding innovation methods, design thinking and technology trends. Group Innovation also has its own technology centres on the topics of AI, Distributed Ledger, Robotics, Quantum Computing and IOT to ensure new business models leverage the power of new technology. As the head of our Centre of Excellence you will report to our Head of Group Innovation (Chief Innovation Officer).

You:
Combine very strong analytical skills with a decisive energy for building new propositions at scale. Know how to build a strong team around you. Can communicate clearly within a broad spectrum of senior management, business experts and technical experts. Generate buy-in and enthusiasm for proposed solutions. Also listen attentively to input and can integrate it into your approach.

Checklist:
- You have a proven track record of developing new business models, both successful and less successful.
- You are a specialist in digital assets, with a strong reputation in the market and an ability to act as spokesperson on behalf of ABN AMRO in this field.
- You have sufficient experience with leveraging recent and brand new technologies to build new business propositions (in Blockchain for instance).
- You have built up a number of highly successful teams.
- You have an established track record in building good relationships with business counterparts, academics and external partners.

An entrepreneurial role in which you are given the scope to get the best out of yourself, to grow and to make an impact for organisation and society at large.
Additionally, we offer:
- an annual pre-tax salary of between €98.645 and €140.911, based on a 36-hour working week.
- a supplementary budget of 11% with which you can buy flexible fringe benefits.
- extensive support to stay fit and healthy.
- an annual company mobility budget.