SVP – Product and Markets — Institutional Platform

The mandate

Customer and operating evidence now point to a product portfolio that no longer maps cleanly to customer economics within a multinational-owned diversified financial-services platform. The immediate arena is the institutional platform during a post-acquisition integration. For mandate 028, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The SVP – Product and Markets operating perimeter covers approximately S$3,150 million in assets under oversight, with activity spanning several institutional platform customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The SVP – Product and Markets Financial Services remit carries direct influence over roughly 200 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The board and its investment committee want a SVP – Product and Markets who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the institutional platform. The SVP – Product and Markets Financial Services seat must resolve a post-acquisition integration, while preserving the underlying strengths of the institutional platform. For mandate 028, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The SVP – Product and Markets’s first year on the institutional platform is expected to end with portfolio focus, adoption and lifecycle profitability. In mandate 028, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is an urgent replacement for the SVP – Product and Markets — Institutional Platform seat following an accelerated leadership transition. Interim accountability is in place for the institutional platform, but the board wants a permanent appointment within 6–8 weeks because a post-acquisition integration cannot remain under split ownership. The predecessor’s outcome is being handled neutrally and professionally. The external search remains confidential until the preferred candidate and transition plan are agreed.

What you will own

• Set the SVP – Product and Markets value-creation thesis for the institutional platform, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately S$3,150 million in assets under oversight, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the SVP – Product and Markets Financial Services organisation of about 200 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the institutional platform economics and execution constraints created by a post-acquisition integration, with SVP – Product and Markets-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one SVP – Product and Markets operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the institutional platform; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Show end-to-end ownership of a material platform or value stream, including budget, talent and measurable operating outcomes in mandate 028.
• Build the SVP – Product and Markets’s three-year succession and capability plan for the institutional platform, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Financial Services organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the institutional platform baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to a product portfolio that no longer maps cleanly to customer economics, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal SVP – Product and Markets portfolio and organisation choices for the institutional platform, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable institutional platform trend against portfolio focus, adoption and lifecycle profitability, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the SVP – Product and Markets’s agreed first-year institutional platform value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A SVP – Product and Markets forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the institutional platform’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the SVP – Product and Markets mandate’s highest-priority institutional platform risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical institutional platform talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the SVP – Product and Markets’s direct reports.
• A quantified SVP – Product and Markets-owned improvement in the institutional platform operating constraint behind a post-acquisition integration, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 028: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a SVP Product, Product Line GM or Commercial Product Head in a multinational-owned Financial Services or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the institutional platform, your SVP – Product and Markets track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from banking, insurance, payments, wealth or regulated fintech will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this SVP – Product and Markets brief.

As a SVP – Product and Markets candidate, you bring 22–28 years of progressive Financial Services or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 22-28 experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of S$1,850 million and led an organisation of at least 200 people.

For mandate 028, the board wants two transitions: a difficult institutional platform portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a post-acquisition integration. As the prospective SVP – Product and Markets for this institutional platform, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 028 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The SVP – Product and Markets must be based in Singapore; international relocation is supported, but this Financial Services role is not designed as a remote appointment.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of SVP Product, Product Line GM or Commercial Product Head, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Financial Services governance forum.
• Proven SVP – Product and Markets ownership of at least S$1,850 million and leadership of no fewer than 200 employees in a comparable institutional platform context.
• One completed Financial Services or adjacent-sector example of a product portfolio that no longer maps cleanly to customer economics with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from banking, insurance, payments, wealth or regulated fintech; experience that is purely functional and lacks SVP – Product and Markets-level institutional platform consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the Singapore location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 028.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated SVP – Product and Markets package is S$360,000–480,000 base + annual incentive, calibrated to the final institutional platform scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 028 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The SVP – Product and Markets appointment in Singapore, centred on the institutional platform, offers regular exposure to the board and its investment committee. A notice period of up to 6 months can be accommodated for the selected executive in mandate 028.

Confidentiality

This search is being conducted without naming the client for mandate 028. Identifying information will follow only when both sides elect to proceed under confidentiality; nothing in the published mandate should be treated as a clue to ownership or brand for mandate 028.