Senior Manager, Account Executive Operations

Capital One (Europe) plc; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension and bonus schemes

25 days annual leave (+5 optional)

Private medical insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Capital One UK in London is seeking a Senior Manager, Account Executive Operations to lead the Technical Quality of Acceptance. You will drive operational delivery and project management of acceptance strategies across international markets, directing high-performing teams and guiding complex initiatives across POS, e-commerce, ATM, gateways, PSPs and acquirers.

Based in Hammersmith with a hybrid pattern (2 days in-office, 3 days remote) and up to 15% travel, you will partner across Strategy,

Qualifications

• Experience in technical acceptance, acquiring, merchant processing, or related fields.
• Solid people leadership experience, including managing managers.
• Experience with a global payment network or PSP, with technical acceptance exposure.
• Experience leading regional or global programmes involving payment ecosystem participants.
• Strong executive presence and ability to translate complex issues into insights.
• Collaborative, solution-oriented mindset with cross-functional teamwork.
• Strong organizational skills with focus on short and long term goals.
• Ability to leverage data to define KPIs to measure performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop high-performing teams of operational professionals, including managers and specialists across country acceptance, analytics, and referral investigation.
• Lead the project delivery of the Technical Quality of Acceptance strategy, translating global priorities into market plans.
• Coordinate specialist resources and apply disciplined problem-management practices, including root-cause analysis and remediation ownership.
• Lead cross-functional regional initiatives to strengthen acceptance resilience and monitoring.
• Build internal partnerships across Networks, Operations, Sales, Market Development, and Strategy.
• Establish and maintain KPIs, reporting, playbooks, escalation paths and controls for acceptance monitoring.
• Represent the function in governance forums and executive updates, communicating risk and impact.
• Develop team capability through training on payment flows and investigation methods.
• Engage externally when needed; ~15% travel.

Skills

Technical acceptance

People leadership

Global payments

Program management

Executive presence

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Data-driven KPIs

Job description

245 Hammersmith (95989), United Kingdom, London,Senior Manager, Account Executive Operations

Job Title: Senior Manager, Account Executive Operations

Location: Hammersmith, London - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 2 days in-office and 3 days remote.

Our Mission

We’re on a mission to be a force for good in lending. Throughout our almost 30-year history, we’ve consistently been recognised as a great place to work; in 2026, Capital One was officially ranked 9th in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list. Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Capital One UK.

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Account Executive Operations for Technical Quality of Acceptance, leads the UK-based operational delivery and project management of our acceptance strategy across international markets. Directing high-performing, globally dispersed teams, the role drives key technical initiatives, including Acceptance Referrals and establishing a new international ATM workstream, to expand ecosystem performance. The role safeguards cardholder transaction reliability across the end-to-end payment chain (POS, e-commerce, ATM, gateways, PSPs, and acquirers) by utilizing operational insights to detect emerging risks and drive swift remediation. Partnering across Strategy, Product, Technology, Networks, Commercial, and Data, this position aligns international priorities and executes complex projects to resolve acceptance issues at local, market, and Network levels.

What you’ll do

• Lead, mentor and develop high-performing teams of operational professionals, including managers and specialists across country acceptance, analytics, and referral investigation. Set clear goals, manage performance and capacity, and build technical and operational capability.
• Lead the project delivery of the Technical Quality of Acceptance strategy, translating global priorities into practical, market-specific plans across targeted global territories.
• Coordinate specialist resources and apply disciplined problem-management practices, including root-cause analysis, remediation ownership, progress tracking, recovery validation and lessons learned.
• Lead complex, cross-functional regional initiatives that strengthen technical acceptance resilience, improve monitoring and detection, remove recurring failure modes, and support technical acceptance stability. Apply disciplined project-management practices to define scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, governance, senior stakeholder communications and delivery plans.
• Build strong internal partnerships across Networks, Operations, Sales, Market Development, and Strategy Teams; influence decisions and drive alignment across differing priorities.
• Establish and maintain clear KPIs, reporting, playbooks, escalation paths, operating controls and documentation for technical acceptance monitoring, investigation and remediation.
• Represent the Technical Quality of Acceptance function in governance forums, launch-readiness reviews, roadmap discussions and executive updates, clearly communicating risk, dependencies, decisions and regional impact.
• Develop team and stakeholder capability through training and knowledge sharing on payment flows, acceptance failure modes, investigation methods, escalation and remediation practices.
• Engage externally when necessary to clarify technical issues, coordinate remediation or support strategic acceptance priorities; external client interaction is limited and purposeful, with approximately 15% travel.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in technical acceptance, acquiring, merchant processing, payment operations, network operations, payment technology or related fields.
• Solid People Leadership experience; including managing managers
• Experience working for a global payment network, acquirer, merchant-services provider, processor, PSP, gateway, payment-orchestration platform, merchant or ATM operator, with substantial technical acceptance exposure.
• Experience leading regional or global programmes involving acquirers, processors, PSPs, merchants, payment platforms or other acceptance ecosystem participants.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear, actionable insights.
• Collaborative, solution-oriented mindset with solid teamwork skills; proven ability to drive results by working across functions
• Strong organizational skills, and focus on achieving both short and long term goals
• Proven ability to leverage data to define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and demonstrate individual and team performance.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Hammersmith, London office.

We embrace a hybrid approach to work. You'll spend two days a week in the office.

What’s in it for you

We invest in the growth of our people alongside our business. You will have extensive opportunities to learn and develop your career, including access to up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications.

In addition to career development, our comprehensive benefits package is designed to grow with you, ensuring your wellbeing is prioritised at every stage of your career:

Wealth & Future: Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes

Holidays: Start with 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure. Need more? You have the option to buy 5 additional days.

Health: Access premium care through our private medical insurance.

Family Support: We champion your milestones with enhanced parental leave.

A full list of our benefits is available here.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible.

We value diversity, inclusion and belonging at our core. We empower our associates to do great work by creating an inclusive culture—one that values diverse perspectives, fosters collaboration and encourages innovative ideas—and a place where associates of all backgrounds can thrive by bringing their most authentic selves to work. We call this our Culture of Belonging, and it rests at the heart of our business.

Our associate‑led Business Resource Groups were created to help support our diverse population and include over 10 groups across our offices. Because each Business Resource Group is as unique as the population it serves, they offer a range of activities, networking opportunities, special events and learning programmes to associates.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information‑based technology company. Still founder‑led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.