Nafasi ya kazi :- NMB Bank Plc 6 Jobs: Head of Innovation, Senior Product Specialist and More July 2026

NMB Bank Plc has announced 6 job opportunities in Tanzania for qualified applicants seeking roles in technology, digital transformation, innovation, human resources, private banking portfolio monitoring, and core banking product support. The vacancies are based at the bank’s Head Office and Head Office, Hq, offering opportunities for professionals with experience in banking operations, finance, HR, innovation strategy, product development, digital solutions, and ICT administration.

These openings are well suited for candidates who want to contribute to a major banking institution through roles that support transformation, customer-focused innovation, strong internal operations, risk management, and technology-driven banking services. Applicants should review the full requirements for each position and submit their applications through the official NMB Bank Plc careers portal.

Available Job Opportunities

Executive Assistant to Chief Technology & Digital Transformation

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Number of positions: 1
• Job opening date: 30-Jun-2026
• Job closing date: 14-Jul-2026
• Job purpose: To provide executive, administrative, financial planning, reporting, coordination, documentation, and stakeholder support to the Chief Technology & Digital Transformation. The role supports smooth execution of departmental priorities, budget monitoring, office management, and technology workstream coordination.
• Main responsibilities:
  • Review departmental budget reports and identify areas requiring attention.
  • Coordinate monthly and quarterly budget meetings across departmental sections.
  • Support requisitions, check requests, charge codes, OPEX and CAPEX budget planning.
  • Prepare financial analyses, forecasts, cost-benefit reviews, and management reports.
  • Coordinate analytical reports and presentations for the Technology & Digital Transformation portfolio.
  • Support performance management meetings, departmental scorecards, and commitment tracking.
  • Manage meetings, appointments, interviews, minutes, records, correspondence, and action follow-ups.
  • Serve as a professional first point of contact for internal and external inquiries.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Ability to work independently and in a team.
  • Strong knowledge of office administration practices.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Excellent customer service and vendor relationship skills.
  • Ability to handle complex and confidential information.
  • Strong attention to detail, organization, and self-management.
• Qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelor Degree in Accounting/ Finance/ Information Systems or related field.
  • 3 years’ experience in managing ICT Budget and ICT administrative work related to SRM, HR, and Finance.

Head of Innovation

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Number of positions: 1
• Job opening date: 01-Jul-2026
• Job closing date: 15-Jul-2026
• Job purpose: To lead the bank’s innovation agenda by developing and executing an innovation strategy that supports market leadership, customer experience, revenue growth, operational efficiency, competitive advantage, and enterprise architecture alignment.
• Main responsibilities:
  • Develop and refine a bank-wide innovation strategy aligned with corporate goals.
  • Establish a multi-year roadmap for product innovation, digital transformation, and operational improvement.
  • Identify and prioritize innovation opportunities that improve revenue, efficiency, and competitiveness.
  • Drive customer-centric innovation using journey mapping and experience design principles.
  • Define enterprise architecture vision, principles, technology roadmaps, and governance frameworks.
  • Lead modernization initiatives involving cloud adoption, APIs, microservices, and data platforms.
  • Design fintech partnership and ecosystem strategies to expand digital capabilities.
  • Oversee implementation of innovation initiatives across teams and departments.
  • Lead research and development frameworks for ideation, experimentation, prototyping, and commercialization.
  • Manage departmental budgets, innovation investments, expenditure control, and high-performing teams.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Strong knowledge of strategy development, road mapping, and execution.
  • Deep understanding of banking products, services, and operations.
  • Knowledge of regulatory frameworks, innovation models, digital transformation, and emerging technologies.
  • Familiarity with fintech ecosystems, platform business models, and enterprise architecture.
  • Strong analytical, report writing, presentation, planning, organization, and documentation skills.
• Qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
  • A Master’s degree in Business, Innovation, Technology Management, or Digital Transformation is an added advantage.
  • Postgraduate education in Banking and/or Banking certification(s) is an added advantage.
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in innovation, digital transformation, or strategy within banking or financial services.
  • Experience leading innovation initiatives from ideation to implementation and scaling.
  • Exposure to enterprise architecture, digital platforms, and emerging technologies is highly desirable.
  • Experience with fintech partnerships, ecosystems, or external innovation stakeholders is an advantage.
  • Relevant professional certifications such as Innovation Management, Agile/SAFe, Design Thinking, TOGAF, or Project Management are an added advantage.

Manager; HR Transactional Services

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Location: Head Office
• Number of positions: 1
• Job opening date: 03-Jul-2026
• Job closing date: 17-Jul-2026
• Job purpose: To supervise and coordinate the HR Transactions Services Unit, ensuring compensation, benefits, payroll, and other HR transactions are handled efficiently, accurately, and in line with payroll standards.
• Main responsibilities:
  • Oversee end-to-end payroll processing and timely salary payments.
  • Monitor employment costs and payroll trends against budget.
  • Ensure payment of staff benefits, advances, loans, bonuses, and leave allowance.
  • Support timely payment of outsourced HR services and staff benefits.
  • Ensure statutory deductions are processed accurately and on time, including Pension, PAYE, WCF, HESLB, and others.
  • Process terminal benefits and ensure HR transaction compliance.
  • Manage relationships with auditors, BOT, Finance, TRA, pension authorities, Legal, government agencies, and other stakeholders.
  • Maintain payroll data, systems, reconciliations, staff loans, advances, and audit support.
  • Lead, guide, develop, and monitor HR Transactions team members.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Strong understanding of payroll, compensation, and employee benefits.
  • Technical proficiency in advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and payroll processing.
  • Strong attention to detail, communication, planning, organization, decision-making, and confidentiality.
• Qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business or related fields.
  • Master’s degree in business studies is an added advantage.
  • Postgraduate education in Banking and/or Banking certification(s) is an added advantage.
  • Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Payroll Administration, Compensation, and Benefits.

Private Banking Portfolio Monitoring Manager

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Number of positions: 1
• Job opening date: 02-Jul-2026
• Job closing date: 16-Jul-2026
• Job purpose: To grow, improve, and maintain asset portfolio quality, support timely clearance of audit issues, manage loan documentation, and collaborate with stakeholders to support customer engagement platforms and related activities.
• Main responsibilities:
  • Lead portfolio monitoring to maintain healthy credit quality, acceptable PAR and NPL levels, audit issue closure, and proper loan documentation.
  • Advise the Head, Private Banking on department risk management and monitoring strategies.
  • Support strategy development for Private schemes, executive loans, and unsecured lending facilities.
  • Prepare periodic and ad-hoc reports on assets, portfolio quality, and related matters.
  • Monitor early warning signs and perform scheduled or event-triggered reviews.
  • Conduct performance reviews of credit-related products with relevant stakeholders.
  • Follow up with action owners to ensure proper closure of agreed issues.
  • Support accurate and timely reports to risk management forums, quality committees, watchlist committees, Credit Committee, and other stakeholders.
  • Supervise, review, and support clearance of audit queries.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Sound understanding of Private Schemes and unsecured personal lending products.
  • Strong knowledge of private sector, banking operations, regulatory requirements, procedures, and financial markets in Tanzania.
  • Strong communication skills in English and Kiswahili.
  • Numerical, analytical, report writing, presentation, leadership, interpersonal, and networking skills.
  • Ability to prioritize and work under pressure with minimum supervision.
• Qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, finance, accounting, banking, economics, business or other relevant fields.
  • Master’s Degree will be an added advantage.
  • At least 4 years’ working experience in business, credit, monitoring, inspection, audit, SAM and/or related areas.
  • Experience in building and developing high-performance teams.

Senior Manager; Innovation Lab

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Number of positions: 1
• Job opening date: 22-Jun-2026
• Job closing date: 06-Jul-2026
• Job purpose: To lead the design, development, and execution of innovative solutions that support business growth, operational excellence, and customer value. The role also promotes cross-functional collaboration and turns emerging ideas into scalable products and services.
• Main responsibilities:
  • Define and execute the Innovation Lab’s vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities.
  • Identify market opportunities, emerging technologies, and innovation trends.
  • Build a culture of experimentation, agility, continuous learning, and user-centered design.
  • Lead design strategy, customer journeys, prototypes, value propositions, and UX toolkits.
  • Manage ideation processes, design thinking, hackathons, challenge programmes, and innovation portfolios.
  • Oversee product, platform, and digital solution design from concept to execution.
  • Lead creativity sessions, product proposal support, usability testing, and design communication.
  • Oversee digital market research, customer validation, surveys, field studies, and market intelligence outputs.
  • Lead rapid prototyping, proof-of-concept development, pilots, and scalable implementation.
  • Govern UAT, quality assurance, innovation standards, feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
  • Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary Innovation Lab team.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation.
  • Creativity, innovation, and ability to work across multiple disciplines.
  • Strong planning, organization, documentation, research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to manage structured projects, communicate effectively, and work with people at all levels.
  • Leadership, coaching, motivation, prioritization, and pressure-management skills.
• Qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field in Information Systems/ Business Management/ Marketing/ Marketing Statistics, /Accounting & Finance/ Innovation or related field.
  • Human-Centered Design certification will be an added advantage.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in product design/ product development or Innovation department with leadership experience in small and large enterprise.
  • Experience in product development/research or innovation team in finance/banking industry will be an added advantage.

Senior Product Specialist

• Employer: NMB Bank Plc
• Location: Head Office, Hq
• Number of positions: 1
• Job opening date: 01-Jul-2026
• Job closing date: 15-Jul-2026
• Job purpose: To lead the implementation of core banking system products from concept to delivery while working with business teams and external software vendors to identify, resolve, and address system issues, problems, and gaps.
• Main responsibilities:
  • Gather Core Banking Systems product requirements and translate them into technical requirements and solutions.
  • Work with business stakeholders to support product roadmaps, positioning, requirements, and feature delivery.
  • Provide product knowledge and mentoring to analysts and specialists.
  • Document complex product management projects for new products and enhancements.
  • Ensure stakeholder readiness before products are implemented in live environments.
  • Oversee new designs and deployments of product-related changes in Core Banking Systems.
  • Define UAT cases and scenarios and ensure UAT sign-off for CBS changes.
  • Manage Core Banking Systems products throughout their lifecycle.
  • Review, correct, monitor, and enhance CBS products and services.
  • Track system changes for audit purposes and ensure key issues are managed.
  • Identify unused system capabilities and advise business teams on possible products or services.
  • Link business updates with application development to ensure technology supports business needs.
  • Lead workflow improvements, gap identification, and product training for business users.
• Knowledge and skills:
  • Knowledge of core banking systems and banking product platforms.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
  • Strong analytical, diagnostic, detail-orientation, and accuracy skills.
  • Strong SQL and database development skills.
  • Leadership ability and capacity to work collaboratively across teams.
• Qualifications and experience:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science /Computer Engineering / Information Technology or any other related field.
  • Relevant certification(s) including ITIL is an added advantage.
  • At least four (4) years of work experience in the relevant field with leadership experience in medium to large organizations working in Core Banking product analysis & configuration.
  • Experience in SQL querying and database developments.
  • Extensive experience with any programming languages like Java, Python and or C.
  • Financial service experience in product management or related areas including relationship management, IT development, and project management.

How to Apply

Applicants should use the official NMB Bank Plc careers portal to review the full vacancy details and submit their application online.
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Candidates should carefully select the position they want, read the full requirements, and complete the online application process through the official portal.

Important Dates

• Executive Assistant to Chief Technology & Digital Transformation: closes 14-Jul-2026
• Head of Innovation: closes 15-Jul-2026
• Manager; HR Transactional Services: closes 17-Jul-2026
• Private Banking Portfolio Monitoring Manager: closes 16-Jul-2026
• Senior Manager; Innovation Lab: closes 06-Jul-2026
• Senior Product Specialist: closes 15-Jul-2026

Equal Opportunity and Recruitment Safety Note

NMB Bank Plc 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 for these positions.

NMB Bank Plc does not charge any fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Applicants should disregard any solicitation for payment connected to these vacancies. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

These NMB Bank Plc vacancies offer strong career opportunities for experienced professionals interested in banking transformation, innovation, HR operations, credit portfolio monitoring, core banking technology, and executive administrative support. The roles require candidates who can work with accuracy, confidentiality, strategic thinking, collaboration, and strong professional discipline.

Applicants are encouraged to review each position carefully, compare the qualifications with their own experience, and apply through the official NMB Bank Plc careers portal. Checking the official vacancy details before submission will help candidates confirm deadlines, responsibilities, requirements, and any final application instructions.