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Joona Venäläinen

Vantaa

Summary

Product and business development professional with demonstrated track record in the field of online consumer lending. Everything from defining business strategy to execution and troubleshooting detailed production issues. Passionate hands-on attitude to make customers succeed!

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager Consumer Loans

Santander Consumer Finance Oy
06.2022 - Current

Overall responsibility for unsecured consumer loan product and business in Finland. Digital customer journeys, product offering and pricing, P&L ownership, stakeholder management, partner relations, compliance, PCR implementation.

Business & Integration Arch Specialist

Accenture
03.2022 - 05.2022

Worked as a Solution Analyst in a core-banking transformation project.

Product Manager Consumer Loans FI

Santander Consumer Finance Oy
01.2020 - 02.2022

Ownership of consumer loan application flow at www.santander.fi, Commercial lead in various projects, Continuous improvement of customer experience, Product development & partner integrations

Business Development Manager

Santander Consumer Finance Oy
07.2015 - 12.2019

A broad range of responsibilities and tasks - anything from business strategy to troubleshooting production issues. The key driver has always been optimizing online consumer lending and providing profitable growth. Close collaboration with IT and dev teams.

Project Manager

SANTANDER CONSUMER FINANCE OY
07.2015 - 12.2019

Renewal of Santander FI homepage and consumer loan application flow, Commercial PM role beside an IT PM, PM tasks as well as business requirements and UAT testing

Education

BBA - PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tampere University of Applied Sciences
2009

Skills

  • Consumer lending
  • Business strategy
  • Partner relations
  • Product management
  • Business development
  • Customer experience
  • Customer journeys
  • Crossfunctional international teams
  • Agile methods

References

Provided on demand

Timeline

Product Manager Consumer Loans

Santander Consumer Finance Oy
06.2022 - Current

Business & Integration Arch Specialist

Accenture
03.2022 - 05.2022

Product Manager Consumer Loans FI

Santander Consumer Finance Oy
01.2020 - 02.2022

Business Development Manager

Santander Consumer Finance Oy
07.2015 - 12.2019

Project Manager

SANTANDER CONSUMER FINANCE OY
07.2015 - 12.2019

BBA - PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Joona Venäläinen