Director - Strategy Execution: Global Licensing Programme Lead
Director - Strategy Execution: Global Licensing Programme Lead
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As our business continues its ambitious growth trajectory there is a strategic aim to build out a significant licence footprint in order to enable the local collection capability (License Expansion Programme) and facilitate direct connection to local payment schemes (DTS Programme). Both initiatives contribute to the critical programme of the money movement strategic objectives.
The Director Global Licencing Expansion Programme will be a key role in this program. This role is essential in ensuring that the Network and Operations team efficiently drives a cross-functional group to deliver the get to operational programme of work associated with several licence applications in different countries. This will include designing entity structure governance overlays operating models platform designs technology builds and migration of existing clients to new licences. There will also be significant interaction with Revenue Org to ensure that the go to market strategy is fully educated on the new business capabilities.
The complexity of our organisational and functional construct requires a dedicated leader who can seamlessly prioritize review and evaluate programme delivery. The Director of Global Licencing Project will lead this key strategic initiative that impacts the entire function and its enabling partners driving efforts to streamline project delivery and foster a culture of excellence in delivery.
In addition by serving as a key liaison between the product technology compliance and the network and operations teams this role ensures no duplication of effort accuracy and completeness of roadmap inputs cohesive execution alignment with strategic goals and adherence to governance standards. This role is critical to driving cross-functional visibility and connective tissues ensuring our teams are integrated and working towards delivery of our key strategic goal.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Maintain and Continually Evolve Roadmap:
Create a comprehensive strategic roadmap for delivery of new capability associated with delivery of global licence program.
Ensure the roadmap remains dynamic and evolves with changing business needs and risk landscapes.
Build End-to-End Processes Required to Deliver Capabilities via New Licences:
Conduct comprehensive high-level assessments of end-to-end program requirements to identify most efficient path to delivery.
Use industry best practices to drive delivery.
Analyse organisational data to pinpoint structural and operational obstacles hindering delivery.
Evolve the delivery program to mitigate these barriers and enable efficient rolling program of delivery.
Create detailed execution roadmaps with clear timelines resource allocation and key milestones.
Ensure alignment with strategic business goals and cross-functional dependencies.
Deliver live capabilities to the business to enable utilisation of new licences
Strategic Execution:
Lead the strategic execution of go-live initiatives ensuring alignment with the organisations long-term vision and goals.
Oversee the implementation of large-scale projects and initiatives ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes through influential leadership.
Liaison/Control Point:
Act as the key liaison with the wider organisation ensuring alignment on the strategic roadmap and preventing disparate efforts.
Serve as a check and control point for the program delivery.
Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between product network compliance legal revenue and operations teams to avoid duplication of effort identify gaps and ensure adherence to governance standards.
Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal governance requirements maintaining the highest standards of control and governance.
Influence Engagement and Leadership:
Activate lead and motivate teams to address critical challenges and drive deliverables.
Engage motivate and lead cross-functional teams at all levels through influence and collaboration.
Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture without direct authority leveraging indirect influence over hundreds of stakeholders.
Encourage and lead initiatives that drive rapid delivery of capability often at risk.
Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Provide regular transparent updates on progress risks and outcomes to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications :
- Experience in banking payments money movement and executing growth in regulated entities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven track record of delivery
- Exceptional project management abilities with experience in developing and executing large-scale initiatives.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills capable of influencing and rallying teams across various functions.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and execute methodically balancing short-term needs with long-term goals.
- Strong influencing and execution skills with the ability to energize teams to achieve ambitious goals and address root causes of inefficiencies.
- Demonstrated understanding of the upstream and downstream implications of operational decisions.
- Articulate and agile in leading multiple threads of complex problems and programs.
- Proven ability to build new capabilities and act as a change agent.
- Experienced and credible in building valuable relationships across all roles and levels within a highly matrixed environment.
- High professional maturity with exceptional interpersonal and relationship development skills capable of influencing executive decision-making.
- Exposure to a broad range of functional experiences.
Personal Attributes:
- Leadership:Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams to achieve exceptional outcomes. Earns credibility through deep process knowledge and a hands-on approach. Inspires and drives teams to higher levels of performance and accountability.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset:Embraces change and fosters innovative thinking to drive continuous improvement and process excellence. Energised by creating lasting capacity and efficiency within teams.
- Change Agent:Thrives in fast-paced environments adept at managing multiple priorities and adapting to evolving circumstances.
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
