Senior Principal Business Strategy

Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description:
What You'll Do
Responsible for providing and coordinating support to leadership on strategic business initiatives including planning, prioritization, and project execution. Also, responsible for identifying and defining growth strategies for the international business as well as coordinating the rollout of those strategies.
Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
How You'll Do It

• Lead or assist with the development and execution of strategies to drive acceptance, payment volume, and incremental revenue for the International Markets team. Collaborate with internal teams and external consultants to identify and scale business development opportunities. Analyze and document business cases, including market needs, strategic rationale, go-to-market approach, commercialization, and scaling solutions.
• Manage the initial implementation of strategies across the business, sharing best practices, monitoring roll out and providing analysis.
• Prepare high quality, data driven strategy presentations, present to senior management and gain approvals and consensus
• Manage and interpret data on business performance and competitor benchmarking to identify opportunities. Develop dashboards to monitor effectiveness
• Provides logistical support and leadership for many of the activities intended to set strategic direction and maintain alignment within the business. Participates in business unit scorecard and process reviews.
• Provides overall direction and support to the leadership team in defining, prioritizing, pursuing, and monitoring major initiatives.
• Manages and interprets data on business performance. Monitors and optimizes business performance.
• Manages budget and expense planning.

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors Business Administration and Management, Finance, Marketing, Communications, or related
• Finance, Marketing, Operations or general business management, or related

In Lieu of Education Experience

• Finance, Marketing, Operations or general business management, or related

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Masters Business Administration and Management, Finance, Marketing, Communications or related
• Business strategy management consulting
• Detailed knowledge and experience of the payments industry

Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-14-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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