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Title: Senior Manager Digital Payments – North America

Location: Charlotte, NC

Overview:

Our Retail Payments Client is searching for a Senior Manager Digital Payments for a new role within their North American Payments team, responsible for defining and actively managing the Digital payments experience and capabilities across all channels. This role will lead cross-functional teams and payment/fintech vendors to build solutions that provide a consistent and frictionless customer experience, while minimizing fraud and eliminating payment related bottlenecks. The ideal candidate will have previous experience with e-commerce, payment acceptance, technology development and project management.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the digital payments product roadmap and planning – identify the problems to be solved, define the desired customer experience, lead the execution strategy and oversee implementation
  • Responsible for defining payment features and managing the features backlog with a strong understanding of risk and internal capabilities needed to successfully deploy
  • Manage and assess digital payment partnership capabilities, offerings, pricing, and terms for business needs and proactively identify opportunities for future payments optimization
  • Interpret business needs to identify potential new partners that support payments strategy and roadmap
  • Drive key initiatives targeted at rationalizing digital payment costs, reducing fraud, and optimizing the digital customer experience
  • Function as the digital payments subject matter expert from pilots to large scale implementation, while working with stakeholders to deliver the right solutions and strategies, with limited guidance.
  • Support day-to-day payments operations and continuous improvements of digital payment acceptance, security, and experience.
  • Manage escalations and resolve payment operational issues together with internal and external partners
  • Ensure compliance with payment regulations

Requirements:

  • 6+ years’ experience in digital commerce deploying/maintaining payment solutions, driving innovation and working with emerging payments/technology, payments economics, networks, acquirers, and vendors
  • Bachelor’s degree or combinations of job-related experience and education required. Master’s degree preferred.
  • Strong understanding of digital payment innovation landscape and market trends in the retail space and preferably in fuel retail/c-store
  • Experience from operating with a strong commercial mindset
  • Solving complex problems with implications across many functions
  • Strong ability and proven record of driving and implementing change: Structured, hands-on, and focused on timely delivery
  • Engaging with stakeholders from varied organizational levels and functions – internally and externally
  • Operating in a culture executing towards lean principles
  • Proven collaborator– able to get things done without formal authority or reporting relationships, working across functions, geographies, and levels to make things happen
  • Customer-focused. Able to identify and understand customer needs and puts them first in all activities and efforts