Role: Project Manager (Strategic Projects - Risk & Remediation)
Location: New York, NY, 10285
Duration: 3 Months
 
Intro / Business Unit Description
The Risk & Remediation team is a key team in GMNS (Global Merchant & Network Services) within Global Strategy, Operations, & Performance (GSOP). GSOP’s mission is to power day-to-day operations, delivering exceptional merchant and partners experiences while supporting GMNS in achieving its long-term goals. As part of GSOP, the Risk & Remediation team focuses on leading high profile, large risk-related initiatives as well as driving broad process excellence and data governance and management.
 
The Manager, Strategic Projects on the Risk & Remediation team will be responsible for select US and global risk-related initiatives which require thought leadership across multiple business lines and map to GMNS / Enterprise focus areas and priorities. This Manager will work on assigned initiative(s), supporting recommendation development, program management and implementation needs. This role will require effective collaboration with Senior Leaders and Business Partners across GMNS, GCO, 2LOD and other business lines (when applicable).
(This position reports to the Director, Strategic Projects.)
 
Responsibilities

• Serve as the program management function, acting as a conduit between initiative Sponsors/Leads and the critical workstreams and Business Partners, delivering on project mandates as well as structured management of initiatives.
• Synthesize complex insights from multiple sources and utilize frameworks to logically and concisely structure information.
• Provide thought leadership and partner with Business Teams to generate and present implementable solutions.
• Develop change management strategies to enable long-term success of business initiatives.

 
Qualification

• Excellent project management / process development skills with a sense of urgency for driving initiatives forward; demonstrated experience working effectively within highly matrixed processes and teams.
• Strong self-starter with high learning agility, the ability navigate successfully through ambiguity to create structure, and work with limited supervision.
• Excellent collaboration skills; ability to build strong relationships and gain followership with key stakeholders.
• Ability to ask the right strategic questions and articulate the big picture.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to organize and synthesize a broad, diverse set of information into clear recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation skills (including PowerPoint fluency) with comfort presenting to audiences of all levels.
• Strong analytical skills (including Excel fluency).
• Overall intellectual curiosity and demonstrated interest; strong knowledge of GMNS and / or control function is a plus.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.