Senior Manager Business Strategy Analysis

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Job Description:

What Youll Do

Leads a team responsible for the assessment of payments ecosystem trends and market needs (external & internal) develops comprehensive strategy including delivery approach. Ensures team is maintaining appropriate industry relationships conducting analysis and gathering internal & external voice of customer inputs. Builds and maintains collaborative internal relationships crossfunctionally including leadership.

The Senior Manager Business Strategy Analysis for International Markets will drive a competitive networkoriented product and capability roadmap for our international businesses supporting the Diners Club and Network Alliances for the Payments organization globally. This role will support planning activities to create new products capabilities and platforms following product development lifecycle principles. This role will help influence the holistic crossfunctional roadmap for the credit debit and prepaid offerings to international client including issuers acquirers merchants and digital enablers. The Senior Manager will collaborate with the network functions including relationship managers operational account executives and product delivery teams to prioritize demand based on business rationale and will partner with the functional Product and Platform teams to influence functional roadmaps and drive across the crossfunctional partners to deliver on the overall roadmap.

Develop and coaches teams to be able to identify manage and escalate risk and effectively manages risk within the teams you oversee.

How Youll Do It

• Develops strategic product road maps for a broad range of critical products. Owns product strategies and contributes to the development of Payments business goals. Responsible for prioritization of the product roadmaps while balancing tradeoffs for effective and scaled market delivery in support of market needs and business goals. Drives customer value through welldefined products. Collaborate internally within Payments to ensure products are aligned with and support overall Payments goals.
• Influences and makes decisions to ensure work is prioritized and completed in the most valueadded order. Partners with technology and crossfunctional business stakeholders to set prioritize and deliver shared business goals. Primary stakeholders within domain value stream can span across multiple stakeholder organizations.
• Leverages trust with peers and partners across multiple functions to ensure continued product development with minimal issues. Work with internal and external partners to enhance products improve the user experience and drive business value for our customers. Cultivate and influence best practices among partners in all aspects of product management. Enhances existing processes and customize where necessary to support the international business model to improve the organizations ability to deliver optimized product roadmaps.
• Leverages knowledge of the market to proactively identify opportunities. Looks ahead to anticipate changes in marketplace regulatory and business needs and incorporate into product roadmaps. Evaluate new product opportunities and bring forward proposals to expand capabilities aligned with business strategy. Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to understand business data and product needs. Evaluates market and competitive trends and assesses regulatory and compliance impacts on product feature sets and policies.
• Leads a team that identifies opportunities of diverse scope related to advancing business objectives and growth strategies.
• Research and assesses industry trends and opportunities in support of Discovers strategy by direct industry participation and via feedback from key internal stakeholders.
• Coordinates with crossfunctional teams and external resources to manage processes related to strategy development and required due diligence.
• Develop presentation materials regarding opportunities analysis and/or recommendations. Leads presentations to leadership.
• Cultivates a culture of proactive risk and change management.
• This role requires the ability to travel internationally

Qualifications Youll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors Business Administration and Management Project Management Analytics Finance or Marketing
• 8 years Payment sales or relationship management financial services industry engagement product strategy or development or related
• In Lieu of Education experience 10 years Payment sales or relationship management financial services industry engagement product strategy or development or related

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal state and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer telephone printer and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
• Travel up to 25 of the time.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Masters Business Administration and Management
• 3 years Product management industry analytics consulting or related

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis.

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Compensation:

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical Dental Vision & Health Savings Account

• Short and Long Term Disability Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.