Product Management Associate Trainee at Popular Bank in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Job Description:

Position Title: Product Management Associate Trainee

Date: Mar 24, 2025

Location: San Juan, PR

Company: Popular Bank

Job Type

Full Time

About The Product Management Associate Trainee Program

Would you like to have a positive impact and leave your mark in a company under critical business and digital Transformation? Are you an adaptive person that enjoys innovating, analyzing, and finding solutions to tough problems? Are you comfortable with complex, demanding environments, and aggressive due dates? Are you interested in being part of a human-centered organization engaged with ESG initiatives?

General Description

Our three-year rotational full-time program allows you to explore and contribute to Popular, while leveraging your strengths, and growing your skills. Associate Trainees will rotate in three key product business areas, while also experiencing key support functions. Accelerated development is key: training and workshops will be provided.

This is a truly collaborative and firsthand experience. Mentors, buddies, and cross functional team members will support your journey to enhance knowledge, as well as your technical and soft skills.

In addition, throughout the program, trainees will have the unique opportunity of growing their network relations and participate in community service activities. At the end of the Program, you will be assigned to a product professional role based on organizational needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

What The Program Offers

• Three, one-year role rotations driven by business products priorities.
• A challenging hands-on experience to develop and enhance professional skills.
• Mentorship by experienced peers and executives.
• Exposure to diverse business processes, staff functions and management viewpoints.
• Banking product industry knowledge through collaboration and networking with experienced team members.
• Training in job departments functions that will facilitate the transfer between rotational units and increase promotional opportunities.
• Company-sponsored trainings/licenses/certifications to increase professional growth.
• Job role to be performed mainly in Puerto Rico facilities, but employees might have the opportunity to visit Popular Affiliates and Subsidiaries in USA and VI as part of the assigned job rotation to collaborate with team members within these areas.
• Travel might be required.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Arts (Economics or Industrial Psychology), STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or Business Administration. Grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher.

Experience

A maximum of four (4) years of combined work experience. Relevant internship or work experiences within the educational field. Solid experience in extracurricular activities (e.g., active participation in student organizations, community service, special projects, mentoring, tutoring, volunteer work).

Certifications / Licenses

No certifications or license are needed

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's)

• Communication Skills: Polished presentation skills, strong oral and written communication skills and fully bilingual (English/Spanish). Strong ability to communicate ideas (storytelling).
• Learning Agility: Comfortable with complexity, fast-paced environment and aggressive due dates; analyze and find solutions to tough problems; thinks quickly; fast learner. Demonstrated experience working well with passionate stakeholders and users.
• Analytical Skills: Stays focused on main issues, prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with timely completion of assignments. Collects, researches, and complements data; careful and systematic evaluation of information; synthesizes complex or diverse information. Demonstrates attention to detail; apply design principles; generate creative solutions. Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; develops alternative, consequences and solutions.
• Leadership Skills: Ability to lead others by establishing clear priorities and objectives, fostering a climate of respect, motivates the team and fosters diversity, inclusion.
• Emotional Intelligence: Demonstrated self-awareness, self-motivation, empathy, and social skills; thinking before acting.
• Innovation and Digital Skills: Ability to achieve results by providing innovative ways of working with operational and technological considerations.
• Strategic Ability: Able to establish a desired future; effectively translating it into action plans. Understand the business environment, assessing major trends and their impact.
• Computer and Technological Skills: Advanced proficiency in MS Office 365 (i.e., PowerPoint and Excel) and other presentation software. Experience with tools such as: JIRA, Confluence; data management tools such as Power Pivot and Power BI, among others is desired.
• Project Management: Knowledge of project coordination, identification of business needs, work plan, budget control, time management, resource allocation, team management and status reports. Must demonstrate leadership, logic, and reasoning skills. Ability to work with multiple projects and tasks with minimum supervision.

Region Locations

Puerto Rico

Work Schedule

Hybrid

Values

Passion for PeopleSucceed TogetherOwn Every MomentBuild the Future

Additional Requirements

The information provided here is only a general guide as to the nature of the position and does not constitute an exact description of the goals, tasks, duties, and responsibilities of the position. The specific details of each position are described in the employee’s objectives within the performance evaluation.

Important: The candidate must provide evidence of academic preparation or courses related to the job posting, if necessary.

ABOUT US

Popular is Puerto Rico’s leading financial institution and have been evolving since it was founded over a century ago. From a small bank it has developed into a large corporation that offer a wide variety of services and financial solutions to our customers, with presence in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.

As employees, we are dedicated to making our customers dreams come true by offering financial solutions in each stage of their life. Our extensive trajectory demonstrates the resiliency and determination of our employees to innovate, reach for the right solutions and strongly support the communities we serve; therefore, we value their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds.

We reaffirm our commitment to always offer essential financial services and solutions for our customers and communities, including during emergency situations and/or natural disasters. Popular’s employees are considered essential workers, whose role is critical in the continuity of these important services even under such circumstances. By applying to this position, you acknowledge that Popular may require your services during and immediately after any such events.

If you have a disability or need more information about requesting an accommodation, please contact us at asesorialaboral@popular.com. This email inbox is monitored for such types of requests only. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed exemptions or reasonable accommodations. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Are you ready for a rewarding career?

Popular is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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