NMB Bank Plc Jobs: 8 Vacancies Open in September 2026

NMB Bank Plc is recruiting qualified professionals for eight career opportunities across technology, institutional and commercial banking, personal lending, credit origination, data analytics, and strategy. The Bank’s stated mission is to deliver innovative and transformative customer experiences that promote financial inclusion and wellbeing, making these positions relevant to its wider focus on customer service, technology, responsible lending, business growth, and data-driven decision-making.

This recruitment round offers 8 openings, with one position available for each advertised role. Stated duty stations include Head Office/HQ, Southern Zone, and Highlands Zone, while the location for one role was not specified in the supplied job description. Several vacancies are approaching their application deadlines between 28 September 2026 and 6 October 2026, so interested candidates should review the requirements carefully and submit applications promptly through the official NMB Bank Plc careers portal.

Job Listings

NOC Infrastructure Specialist

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Proactively monitor, conduct level 2 troubleshooting, and escalate incidents and problems within the Network Operation Center that may affect bank services, while supporting reliable service delivery.
• Duties or role notes: The position supports DSS and onboarding services, performs proactive monitoring and troubleshooting across data centre and disaster recovery infrastructure, core banking services, networks, branch connectivity, ATM/POS and self-service channels, and supports power and cooling utilities.
• Duties or role notes: The role also manages incidents and problems affecting self-service systems, coordinates root-cause analysis, prepares service and infrastructure performance reports, supports automation of health-check reporting, and escalates issues requiring third-level support.
• Key skills: Knowledge of operating systems, networks, virtual environments, databases, middleware, data-centre infrastructure and monitoring; programming or scripting knowledge including Java, Python and Bash; Linux commands; DevOps; web technologies; and strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related academic field.
• Experience: 3 years’ experience handling monitoring tools such as Micro Focus in large corporate organizations, plus 3 years’ experience with systems and network security technologies.
• Additional requirements: ITIL qualification is preferable but not essential. Candidates should be able to work overnight and on shift rotation.

Relationship Manager Institutional Banking

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Southern Zone
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Grow and retain a portfolio of Institutional Banking clients across Government and private institutions by providing customized financial solutions and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Duties or role notes: Manage existing client relationships, identify and develop new institutional business, prepare and support credit applications, grow assets and liabilities, pursue cross-selling opportunities, and coordinate product partners.
• Duties or role notes: The role is also responsible for customer-service quality, regulatory compliance, KYC, portfolio quality, risk management, preparation of credit applications, record keeping and maintaining a sustainable wholesale banking balance sheet.
• Key skills: Institutional Banking knowledge, understanding of banking policies and regulatory requirements, sector analysis, relationship management, financial analysis, sales and negotiation skills, and fluency in English and Swahili.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Research or related fields.
• Additional qualifications: Master’s degree in business studies and postgraduate banking education or banking certification are added advantages.
• Experience: Minimum 4 years’ experience in relationship management involving government and other public-sector clients.

Relationship Manager; Commercial – Chinese Desk

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Highlands Zone
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Advise the Business Banking Commercial department on strategies for growing the Bank’s customer base among Chinese commercial businesses.
• Duties or role notes: Sell deposits, loans, forex, internet banking, trade products and other banking solutions to Chinese commercial customers; appraise credit applications; support growth of Chinese business assets and liabilities; and drive customer acquisition.
• Duties or role notes: The position also mentors Relationship Officers, reviews customer and market feedback, supports product improvements, coordinates budget objectives, prepares loan and deposit projections, and helps maintain customer satisfaction.
• Key skills: Credit analysis, customer relationship management, knowledge of bank lending products and procedures, standard computer applications, communication, business management, leadership and coaching.
• Language requirement: Must be fluent in Chinese.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Banking or related fields.
• Experience: At least 4 years’ experience in Retail Banking, including SME and commercial-business lending and/or a Business Banking relationship-management role.
• Additional requirement: Experience dealing with the Chinese sector is mandatory.

Relationship Manager; Personal Lending

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Manage and grow the Salaried Workers Loan portfolio within Local Government Authorities and Central Government Ministries through stronger institutional relationships, deeper penetration and sustainable portfolio growth.
• Duties or role notes: Identify opportunities within government institutions, engage decision makers and payroll stakeholders, conduct employer visits and financial-literacy sessions, and develop measurable scheme-penetration plans.
• Duties or role notes: Provide business support and coaching to Direct Sales Staff and branches, coordinate field visits and customer acquisition, monitor portfolio quality, address payroll and scheme issues, identify operational risks and prepare performance reports.
• Duties or role notes: Conduct competitor and market analysis and recommend improvements to products, processes, pricing and market positioning.
• Key skills: Personal and Retail Banking, Salaried Workers Lending, government payroll structures, lending and credit procedures, compliance, portfolio management, sales, relationship management, stakeholder engagement, reporting and analytical skills.
• Languages: Strong communication and presentation abilities in English and Kiswahili.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Marketing or another relevant business-related field.
• Additional qualifications: Postgraduate qualification and/or relevant professional banking certification is an added advantage.
• Experience: At least 4 years’ experience in banking operations, relationship management, sales and/or loan portfolio management.
• Preferred experience: Pensioner lending, secured personal lending, digital lending, Salary Advance propositions, branch-network sales execution and institutional or government-scheme relationship management are advantageous.

Relationship Manager; Special Lending

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Drive sustainable growth, profitability and portfolio quality for the Bank’s Special Lending portfolio, with primary responsibility for Pensioners Loans, Salary Advance and approved secured personal lending solutions.
• Duties or role notes: Develop sales and portfolio plans for pensioner, Salary Advance and secured personal lending products while driving customer acquisition, activation, utilization and retention.
• Duties or role notes: Grow pensioner and secured-lending portfolios, manage high-value or complex secured lending opportunities, maintain sales pipelines, monitor branch and zone performance, and prepare forecasts and performance reports.
• Duties or role notes: Work with Product, Digital, Credit, Operations, Risk, Marketing and other stakeholders; conduct customer engagement and financial-literacy activities; support branches through training and sales campaigns; and monitor portfolio quality and arrears.
• Key skills: Retail and consumer lending, credit assessment, portfolio management, pensioner lending, secured lending, Salary Advance products, KYC/AML requirements, business development, relationship management, analytics, stakeholder coordination and Microsoft Office.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration or another relevant business-related field.
• Additional qualifications: Professional or postgraduate qualification in banking, credit, finance or a related discipline is an added advantage.
• Experience: At least 4 years’ relevant experience in retail/consumer lending, sales, relationship management or loan portfolio management.
• Preferred experience: Pensioner lending and/or secured personal lending involving cash-covered or bond/investment-backed facilities is strongly preferred. Exposure to digital lending, Salary Advance propositions and branch-network sales is an added advantage.

Senior Analyst; Client Origination

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Head Office
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Evaluate counter-party credit risks associated with Wholesale Banking lending while supporting origination, structuring, syndication and co-financing transactions for public- and private-sector borrowing customers.
• Duties or role notes: Conduct credit evaluations, identify risk requirements during deal negotiations, interview clients, assess deal viability, structure appropriate credit solutions and prepare credit applications.
• Duties or role notes: Present and defend credit proposals, analyze business and financial risks, monitor credit utilization and arrears, review financial and non-financial customer information, support annual credit reviews and manage portfolio-quality indicators.
• Duties or role notes: Build relationships with Relationship Managers and Credit Originators, support risk mitigation, coach team members and maintain strong understanding of client businesses, risks and opportunities.
• Key skills: Wholesale Banking knowledge, financial analysis, credit evaluation, risk assessment, relationship management, analytical thinking, accuracy, communication, negotiation and strategic influencing.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related fields.
• Additional qualifications: Master’s degree in business studies and postgraduate education or certifications in banking are added advantages.
• Experience: At least 4 years’ experience in credit origination or evaluation.
• Additional experience: Experience in project structuring, financial modelling, validation and reviewing financial statements.

Senior Manager; Business Insights & Analytics

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Head Office
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Serve as an analytics partner to the business, translating data into decisions that leadership and business units can act on while owning the business requirements for analysis, models, dashboards and insights.
• Duties or role notes: Lead analytics partnership and demand management across business units, translate business questions into technical requirements and coordinate data-engineering priorities with technology teams.
• Duties or role notes: Own business requirements for data products and reporting infrastructure, improve data latency and automation, design management and real-time monitoring dashboards, and support Management, Board and regulatory reporting.
• Duties or role notes: Track strategic initiatives, generate performance insights, conduct deep-dive analysis, develop predictive and optimization models, identify machine-learning opportunities and coordinate production deployment of analytical models.
• Duties or role notes: Lead Data Analysts and Data Scientists, develop analytics talent, promote a data-driven culture and oversee data quality, reconciliation, governance, privacy and compliance.
• Key skills: Strong SQL plus hands-on Python and/or R experience; BI and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker or Superset; familiarity with Airflow, dbt or other ETL frameworks; data warehousing; cloud platforms; and machine-learning workflows.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or a related quantitative field.
• Additional qualifications: Master’s degree or relevant professional certification is an added advantage.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years’ experience in data analytics or business intelligence, including at least 2–3 years leading a team.
• Additional experience: Proven experience in banking, financial services, payments or a comparable transaction-intensive environment, including analytics delivery through a separate technology or engineering function.

Strategy Monitoring Analyst

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Openings: 1
• Location: Head Office
• Contract/employment type: Not specified
• Job purpose: Support execution of the Bank’s strategic plan through data-driven monitoring, performance analysis and strategic insights.
• Duties or role notes: Monitor strategic initiatives against milestones and timelines, maintain strategy-execution trackers, monitor KPIs and scorecards, track execution against the Medium-Term Plan and identify risks or delays.
• Duties or role notes: Collect, consolidate and analyze operational, financial and strategic information; perform quantitative and qualitative analysis; develop models and datasets; validate data; and conduct root-cause and performance analysis.
• Duties or role notes: Translate complex information into actionable business insights, identify emerging risks and opportunities, conduct strategic deep dives, evaluate strategic initiatives and support development of business cases.
• Duties or role notes: Collaborate with business units, Finance, Retail, Wholesale, Treasury, Digital and other functions while promoting data-driven decision-making.
• Key skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel including Power Query, Pivot Tables, advanced formulas and data modelling; strong quantitative analysis; SQL; Power BI or similar visualization tools; data-quality management; financial analysis; strategic thinking and communication.
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Data Science, Business Analytics, Actuarial Science, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems or related quantitative disciplines.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experience in Strategy, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Management Information, Financial Analysis or related analytical roles.
• Additional experience: Demonstrated experience analyzing business performance and producing management insights, including experience with SQL, Power BI and advanced Excel.

Application Instructions

Applications must be submitted through the official NMB Bank Plc recruitment system.

To apply, visit the NMB Bank Plc Careers Portal and select the job you want to apply for.

NMB Bank Plc states that it is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse environment and achieving a gender-balanced workforce. Female candidates and people living with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

NMB Bank Plc does not charge any fee in connection with its application or recruitment process. Applicants who receive a request for payment in connection with recruitment should disregard it.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Important Dates

• NOC Infrastructure Specialist
  • Opening date: 16 September 2026
  • Closing date: 30 September 2026
• Relationship Manager Institutional Banking
  • Opening date: 16 September 2026
  • Closing date: 30 September 2026
• Relationship Manager; Commercial – Chinese Desk
  • Opening date: 14 September 2026
  • Closing date: 28 September 2026
• Relationship Manager; Personal Lending
  • Opening date: 21 September 2026
  • Closing date: 5 October 2026
• Relationship Manager; Special Lending
  • Opening date: 16 September 2026
  • Closing date: 30 September 2026
• Senior Analyst; Client Origination
  • Opening date: 15 September 2026
  • Closing date: 29 September 2026
• Senior Manager; Business Insights & Analytics
  • Opening date: 22 September 2026
  • Closing date: 6 October 2026
• Strategy Monitoring Analyst
  • Opening date: 16 September 2026
  • Closing date: 30 September 2026

Conclusion

These eight NMB Bank Plc vacancies provide opportunities for experienced professionals to contribute in areas that directly support technology resilience, customer relationships, responsible lending, institutional banking, credit management, analytics and execution of the Bank’s strategy. Candidates whose qualifications and professional experience match the stated requirements should carefully review the relevant position before completing their application through the official careers portal.

Because the vacancies have different closing dates, applicants should pay particular attention to the deadline attached to their preferred role and avoid delaying submission. Some positions are already at the final stage of their advertised application periods. Preparing an accurate application and submitting it through the official NMB Bank Plc recruitment portal before the applicable deadline will help ensure that the application is considered within the advertised recruitment window