Enova International

Strategy and Operations Manager

Enova International

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ChicagoIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Manage initiatives that focus on customer acquisition, loan servicing, portfolio management, and legal and compliance.
  • Serve as a leader of the S&O team and be responsible for driving high impact projects.
  • Be a strategic partner to business heads and help lead sessions around strategy planning, resource allocation, and executive reporting.
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, provide thought leadership for problem solving, prioritize and execute projects, balance business needs vs. technical constraints, and drive bottom line results.
  • Assess risks and recommend product and policy changes that allow Enova to remain the market leader in Consumer/SMB lending.
  • Identify and size opportunities across the customer journey, product experience, and operational workflows, and build data-driven business cases to support proposed changes.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Risk, and Operations to design and implement solutions, including testing, modeling impact, and iterating based on results.
  • Support P&L-driven decision making by evaluating how initiatives impact revenue, costs, and overall portfolio performance.
  • Develop and refine prioritization strategies and allocation models (e.g., lead routing, campaign optimization) to improve efficiency and outcomes.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of tangible work experience in consumer or small business lending dealing with credit risk or portfolio management.
  • MBA from a top tier university is strongly preferred.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • High energy, team player, creative thinker, and strategic influencer.
  • Demonstrated experience in working with broad cross-functional teams.
  • Maturity and good judgment. Skilled in negotiating, influencing and leading others, analytical thinking, and executing and implementing projects.
  • Experience owning or contributing to projects that materially impacted business performance (e.g., revenue generation, cost savings, or process optimization).
  • Strong analytical problem-solving skills with experience using data to drive business decisions (SQL or similar tools are a plus, but not required).
  • Demonstrated ability to connect work to P&L impact, including evaluating tradeoffs between revenue growth, cost, and customer experience.
Benefits
  • Our hybrid roles require in-office work Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This schedule fosters collaboration, team connection, and strategic planning, enhancing communication and effectiveness to drive results.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance including mental health benefits
  • 401(k) matching plus a roth option (U.S. Based employees only)
  • PTO & paid holidays off
  • Sabbatical program (for eligible roles)
  • Summer hours (for eligible roles)
  • Paid parental leave
  • DEI groups (B.L.A.C.K. @ Enova, HOLA @ Enova, Women @ Enova, Pride @ Enova, South Asians @ Enova, APEX @ Enova, and Parents @ Enova)
  • Employee recognition and rewards program
  • Charitable matching and a paid volunteer day…Plus so much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
customer acquisitionloan servicingportfolio managementcredit riskdata-driven business casesprioritization strategiesallocation modelscampaign optimizationanalytical thinkingprocess optimization
Soft Skills
written communicationoral communicationteam playercreative thinkerstrategic influencernegotiatinginfluencingmaturitygood judgmentproblem-solving
Certifications
MBA