Sr. Business Manager - Global Pricing, U.S. and Canada Deals

Sr. Business Manager - Global Pricing, U.S. and Canada Deals

Global Pricing leads the development and execution of pricing policy strategy for Discover Network (DN) and Diner's Club International (DCI) payment networks. Network pricing policy serves as the driver for network revenue and topline growth at Global Payment Network (GPN).

The Global Pricing team partners with GPN's external facing teams to evaluate market pricing (interchange and network fees), review voice of customer feedback, and develop pricing rules, rates, and fees that are benchmarked to competitors. With this benchmarked approach in mind, pricing considers DGN products, technological capabilities, market perception, and industry news to develop and maintain a cohesive pricing strategy. Additionally, the pricing team supports the end-to-end implementation of pricing policy and the consistent evaluation of the required pricing infrastructure. The pricing team strives for operational excellence, pricing integrity, and flawless execution.

This role will lead a team focused on the economic analysis for Discover Network's most strategic participants, including merchants, acquirers, and Issuers. The role will partner closely with network relationship managers to evaluate pricing and economics for existing merchant participants, develop strategic enterprise partnership frameworks, and support deal constructs for new network issuers. The deals team will be responsible for driving pricing negotiations and recommendations, develop a strategic plan to grow network revenue, and implement a cohesive strategy that considers market conditions.

As a Senior Manager, Business Analysis at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will lead and team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you'll do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

General Responsibilities:

• Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory behavior
• Business ownership: Have an ownership mindset, and potentially P&L accountability for a business segment. Strategic planning with a 1-6 month horizon
• Leadership: May manage and develop a team of analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates throughout the organization with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One
• Product: Develop and implement new product and pricing strategies for various lending products; lead product level modeling/analytics
• Marketing: Lead direct to consumer marketing efforts for select products, and strategic intent for products distributed through various channels. Build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go-to-market strategies
• Credit Risk: Drive step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis
• Execution: Coordinate across the line of business to manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the product strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently
• Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: IT, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
• Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
• Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. He/she should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results
• Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
• Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 3 years of experience in quantitative analysis
• At least 3 years of experience in qualitative analysis
• At least 1 year of experience in people management
• At least 1 year of experience in project management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in quantitative analysis
• 5+ years of experience in qualitative analysis
• 2+ years of experience in people management
• 2+ years of experience in product development
• 2+ years of experience in financial modeling
• 2+ years of experience in economic forecasting
• 2+ years of experience in project management