Sr Manager, Acceptance Network Product Solutions
6 Months
CA (Remote)
Description: Job Description:

• Client Acceptance Solutions is a global and high growth business unit within the Value-Added Services organization, and a key contributor to VAS’ 20%+ YoY growth.
• Acceptance Solutions focuses on helping businesses keep ahead of changing consumer expectations for payments while also managing their costs and growing revenue.
• Acceptance Solutions does this by providing a range of infrastructure for Merchants, Acquirers and Technology Partners for accepting payments, reducing fraud, increasing approvals and managing disputes. Acceptance Solutions commits to delivering Client-grade uptime, security, and insights from the world’s largest payment network.
• The Sr Manager, Acceptance Network Product Solutions will play an important role in the Acceptance Solutions business unit by accelerating key initiatives and driving overall business unit performance.
• It will also support a set of products focused on verification, authorization and reporting excellence called 'Network Products'.

 
Responsibilities:

• New initiative leadership: Define and lead workstreams to accelerate priorities that arise within the business unit that are cross-functional in nature or require close collaboration with the business unit lead and/or leadership team.
• Business performance: Drive focus to improve the end-to-end health of the business. This role will work closely with the various functions leads to drive better outcomes towards their targets (Sales, Product, Client Services etc.).
• Product commercialization and strategy: Partner with Global Product owners within our 'Network Products' suite and the market stakeholders responsible for commercialization, to drive incremental revenue through sales, compliance and pricing efforts.
• Simplifying and driving best practices in pricing: Develop in-year and multi-year pricing opportunities to drive sales, revenue and desired ecosystem behavior. Actively engage in / lead wider pricing efforts that would impact/risk Network Product direct sales including Regional Digital Commerce Service Fees and Network upgrades. Simplify pricing across products. Apply best practices from individual regions and customer segments globally.
• Developing & integrating product narrative and strategy within business: Drive customer adoption with an integrated storyline spanning related individual Consumer, VAS, Acceptance Solutions and CMS products. Partner with other product managers to explore bundling and integration into solution offerings. Set within five-year vision for payments trends impacting suites such as verification, authorization and reporting.
• Conducting data analysis: review product data to qualify potential new customer opportunities and answer questions during the sales cycle. Become expert in product data and establish/train regional teams to self-service.

 
Qualifications: Basic Qualifications:

• 8 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and applying these strategically. Strong command of data analysis.
• Team player. Able to communicate with technical and business experts at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal and communication skills. Willingness to take ownership of detail when producing written deliverables to executives.
• Knowledge of the payment acceptance landscape and willingness to stay on top of trends.
• Critical thinking skills and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Ability to drive cross-functional project teams of colleagues across multiple geographies and disciplines (in a matrix structure where none of the resources report directly to the manager).
• High sense of accountability and self-motivation. Ability to self-direct and make recommendations to team.
• Ability to build strong relationships, collaborate with all levels and influence without authority.
• Strong organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles.

 
  
 
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.