Senior Manager Business Strategy Analysis

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Job Description:
What You'll 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 cross-functionally, including with leadership.
The Senior Manager Business Strategy Analysis for International Markets will drive a competitive network-oriented 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 have help influence the holistic, cross-functional roadmap for the credit, debit and prepaid offerings to international 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 execution across the cross-functional partners to deliver on the overall roadmap.
The Senior Manager Business Strategy Analysis for International Markets develops and coaches teams to be able to identify, manage, and escalate risk, and effectively manages risk within the teams you oversee.
How You'll Do It

• Leads a team that identifies opportunities of diverse scope related to advancing business objectives and growth strategies.
• Researches and assesses industry trends and opportunities in support of Discover's strategy, by direct industry participation and via feedback from key internal stakeholders.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams and external resources to manage processes related to strategy development and required due diligence.
• Develops presentation materials regarding opportunities, analysis, and/or recommendations. Leads presentations to leadership.
• Cultivates a culture of proactive risk and change management.
• 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 trade-offs for effective and scaled market delivery, in support of market needs and business goals. Drives customer value through well-defined 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 value-added order. Partners with technology and cross-functional 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 organization's 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.

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors Business Administration and Management, Project Management, Analytics, Finance, Marketing or related field.
• 8+ years Payment sales or relationship management, financial services industry engagement, product strategy or development, or related
• In lieu of degree, 10+ years Payment sales or relationship management, financial services industry engagement, product strategy or development, or related
• Applicant must be 18 years of age or older at the time of application.

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 accommodations 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 50% of the time; including internationally.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Masters Business Administration and Management or related field.
• 3+ years Product management, industry analytics, consulting, or related experience.

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 full-time basis.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-27-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $106,000.00 to $178,800.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
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
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
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