Senior Manager - Strategic Planning

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Global Commercial Services (GCS) is the global leader in providing payments solutions for small, medium and large businesses. To ensure we keep on the leading edge of the dynamic commercial payments landscape, the GCS Strategy, M&A and Alliances team is charged with defining the long-term business objectives and driving strategic opportunities to accelerate revenue growth. The team plays an integral role in defining, developing, and leading new strategies, inorganic growth (M&A), partnership (Alliances) opportunities, as well as managing Annual Investment Planning, Opex, Strategic Engagement Team to accelerate our overall strategy and vision.

In this role, the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning will represent Amex’s enterprise partnership with Global Business Travel (GBT) in terms of Corporate Development, Board Governance, Financial Forecasts, and compliance requirements while also strengthening the partnership, working across the enterprise to develop new opportunities to create customer and shareholder value, and lead key negotiations as required.

This role requires a dynamic partnership leader with the ability to identify and evaluate new business opportunities using an enterprise lens. The successful candidate brings an ability to lead cross-functional relationships and multiple workstreams with stakeholders in order to define and achieve global partnership goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience leading external relationships
• Knowledge of the payments industry and FinTech trends
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability and comfort synthesizing large amounts of information for senior leadership
• Demonstrates strategic thought leadership and intellectual curiosity to proactively see opportunities, anticipate challenges, and provide solutions
• Comfortable leading multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Self-starter with initiative, drive, and attention to detail
• Strong cross-functional collaborator across business units
• Critical thinker with the ability to develop a multidimensional action plan that delivers results
• High proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Outstanding relationship-building and influence skills working with internal and external parties, capable of influencing and securing alignment at all levels
• Proven leadership skills, with experience delivering global, cross-functional initiatives
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization and get results through influence
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to achieve successful results while working in a fast-paced environment with white space
• Previous experience working in the travel industry preferred but not required

Salary Range: $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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