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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?

Job Description:

Joining International Card Services business, this person will play a crucial role in driving transformation and business model effectiveness, provide program administration and project management support to optimize sales processes, and ensuring cross-functional collaboration with Global Commercial Services - G&L team as well as other internal areas.

The incumbent will be an integral member of the Transformation Management Office, helping to drive the day-to-day management, tracking, and reporting of the programs and strategic projects in charge and will report into the VP of Foreign Currency Solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

• Develop reports and dashboards to track performance and key metrics.

• Key point of contact and PMO for multiple strategic and transformational projects within FCS.

• Manage E2E project planning across multiple works streams.

• Program execution and delivery: Oversee program milestones, timelines, and deliverables to ensure alignment with program strategy and objectives. Monitor and manage resolution of dependencies, gaps, risks &issues, and change requests.

• Drive coordination of activities across various teams including sales, marketing, product and technology to ensure the end-to-end solution is stitched together appropriately to meet the business standards. 

• Communicate program progress, updates, risks, escalations, and outcomes to program leadership. Drive communication across the various stakeholder teams to ensure integrity of the end-to-end solution.

• Performance oversight: Manage the program’s budget to optimize resources, and technology capacity across the dependent teams. Manage the program’s objectives and key results (OKRs) and the tracking and reporting of the program metrics. 

• Lead weekly Program/Project calls to capture actions that drives clear ownership, decision making, risk management and accountability.

• Prepare various committee reporting and weekly communications.

• Develop central repository of Project Management tools and templates and serve as go-to subject matter resource.

• Liaise between FCS central PMO and other project governance teams as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years of relevant experience in global payments, ideally within Program Management, Project Management, and/or Product & Platform Management.

• Results oriented: Proven track record of coordinating between Business, Product, Platform Delivery, and Technology teams to deliver key strategic projects.

• Passion for execution: Passion to drive program execution and delivery in a fast-moving and innovative environment.

• Project management: Exceptional project management skills with flawless organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Product experience: A strong understanding of user experience and design principles to ensure the product meets market needs.

• Highly collaborative: Ability to collaborate with and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver value beyond traditional means.

• Effective communicator and influencer: Ability to influence key partners and executive stakeholders. Excellent communication skills, proficient in developing excellent quality presentations and deliverables for an executive audience.

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities. Effectively manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

• Collaboration and teamwork – work well with cross-functional teams.

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and can adjust strategies based on evolving business needs.

• Resilience and persistence – ability to maintain a proactive approach to problem-solving.

• Business level fluency Spanish is a plus.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $89,250.00 to $150,250.00 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.

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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Job: Project

Primary Location: US-Florida

Other Locations: US-Florida-Sunrise, US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25017552