Continuous improvement of the overall intake process, identifying opportunities for improved collaboration, discovery, and delivery within established timelines.
Understanding of complex business processes and systems; maintain a thorough knowledge of processing platforms, interdependencies, and technology capabilities.
Support Project Controllers and Consultants to navigate the intake process, including gathering high-level requirements; defining scope; identifying and documenting risks, issues and dependencies; determining cost estimates; working with the PMO Implementations team and other stakeholders.
Support Go-To-Market Team Collaboration meetings to identify business unit impacts and capture resource estimations.
Analyze and evaluate demand information, requirements, and scheduling, ensuring all necessary documentation and enablement requirements are met.
Evaluate requests and support the prioritization of demands, including identifying risks, dependencies, and a thorough understanding of the client’s strategic goals and initiatives.
Collaborate with senior leadership to align on organizational goals; routine collaboration on key initiatives, trends, and strategic objectives.
Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships, including vendor relationships and cross-functional teams.
Manage and refine non-standard project requests, ensuring proper commercialization and demand foundation is built within PMO’s Project Enablement team.
Develop and execute a centralized demand and inquiry request process for Client Delivery’s PMO.
Facilitate Client and/or prospect presentations on proposed Demand or Project lineup.
Provide pre-sale support and consulting, including travel to client locations for presentations to senior client management teams; provide support and consulting to other Velera departments.
Create departmental performance standards and procedures supporting Business Unit objectives; evaluate and provide feedback on individual and team performance in the area of productivity, accuracy, timeliness, losses, cancellations and rejects, reviewing staffing ratios for equitable distribution of workload.
Establish departmental reports and procedures that comply with established contractual requirements for FI relationships; Manage, monitor, and continually seek ways to improve reporting requirements; identify any Service Level Agreement (SLA) variances and communicate such variances to appropriate team members.
After-hours on-call support, as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Bachelors degree in a related field and/or equivalent combination of experience and education is required.
Seven (7) years in credit/debit card and/or financial industry-related experience.
Five (5) years of client project and/or conversion-related experience required.
Five (5) years of management experience preferred.
Working knowledge of card processing systems preferred.
Ability to lead large cross-functional teams and engage with senior leaders.
Ability to analyze & assess business impacts.
Accomplished presentation skills and comfortable presenting to all levels of leadership within the organization.
Understanding of Six Sigma and project management best practices to implement, monitor, and control changes to existing processes and procedures in order to attain high levels of quality and client satisfaction.
Thorough understanding of the card payment industry, various processing systems, and/or related in-house applications.
Ability to travel up to 25%.
Benefits
Competitive wages
Medical with telemedicine
Dental and Vision
Basic and Optional Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Maternity, Parental, Family Care
Community Volunteer Time Off
12 Paid Holidays
Company Paid Disability Insurance
401k (with employer match)
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Supplemental Insurance
Mental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Tuition Reimbursement
Wellness program
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