Senior Business Manager- Global Acceptance Strategy

Capital One National Association; New York (NY); On-site; USD 219,000 - 249,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Performance incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Business Manager in New York to lead the global acceptance strategy. You will guide strategic initiatives, partner with Sales, Product, Pricing and Risk, and lead a team of analysts to deliver data-driven insights that shape the business direction.

You will present recommendations to senior leaders, manage multiple workstreams, and drive collaboration across IT, Operations, Finance, and business partners while mentoring analysts for growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 3+ years quantitative analysis experience; 3+ years qualitative analysis experience; 1+ year people management; 1+ year project management.
• Preferred: Master’s in Business or quantitative field; 5+ years quantitative analysis; 5+ years qualitative analysis; 2+ years people management; 2+ years product development; 2+ years financial modeling; 2+ years economic forecasting; 2+ years project management.

Responsibilities

• Shape long- and short-term global acceptance strategies.
• Lead a team of 3–5 analysts and structure their workstreams.
• Drive quantitative and qualitative analysis for deal opportunities and growth initiatives.
• Conduct competitive research and market analyses to surface actionable insights.
• Deliver executive narratives, strategic briefings, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business questions into structured recommendations.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Qualitative analysis

People management

Project management

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field

Job description

Senior Business Manager- Global Acceptance Strategy

Summary: 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.

The Global Acceptance Strategy team is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Business Manager to partner with senior leaders and help set the strategic direction for our global acceptance strategy. The ideal candidate leverages strong quantitative and qualitative rigor to shape and drive both short- and long-term strategic initiatives, ranging from “is this partnership a good opportunity” to “where should we focus our efforts over the next year.” You will partner closely with key cross-functional stakeholders across the Global Payment Network (e.g., Sales, Product, Pricing, Risk), leverage market research, and use internal data to support your projects. You will lead a team of high performing analysts and be expected to support their professional development.

What do you will do:

• Help shape and drive long-term and short-term global acceptance strategies
• Lead a team of 3–5 analysts, structuring their workstreams a collaborative and high performing environment
• Drive quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate major deal opportunities, and strategic growth initiatives
• Conduct deep-dive competitive research and market analyses to identify industry trends, benchmark network performance, and surface actionable business insights
• Deliver executive-level narratives, strategic briefings, and recommendations to senior leadership
• Translate complex business questions into structured recommendations while partnering with cross functional teams

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 performing quantitative analysis
• At least 3 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
• At least 1 year of experience performing people management
• At least 1 year of experience performing 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

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Chicago, IL: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Business Manager
McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100 for Sr. Business Manager
New York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 for Sr. Business Manager
Riverwoods, IL: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Business Manager

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

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