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Senior Principal Business Strategy - Card Portfolio

Discover
Riverwoods, IL, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Mar 2025
💰 $178,800/yr($106,000/yr$178,800/yr)

About the role

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

As part of the Portfolio Business Strategy team, you will be responsible for providing and coordinating support to leadership on strategic business initiatives, including planning, prioritization, and project execution, as well as creating Tableau dashboards for visualizing data. You will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

  • Provides logistical support and leadership for many of the activities intended to set strategic direction and maintain alignment within the business. Participates in business unit scorecard and process reviews.

  • Provides overall direction and support to the leadership team in defining, prioritizing, pursuing, and monitoring major initiatives.

  • Manages and interprets data on business performance, identifying trends and developing recommendations on optimization opportunities.

  • Creates frameworks to drive consistent processes across all Product Families within the department, including team communications and training.

  • Develops strategic, executive-level presentations to communicate critical updates regarding business performance.

  • Designs reporting and dashboards that communicate status updates and progress towards key objectives and goals.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management, Finance, Marketing, Communications, or related.

  • 6+ years Finance, Marketing, Operations or general business management, or related

  • In lieu of education, 8+ years Finance, Marketing, Operations or general business management, or related

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

Does this job require remaining in a stationary position, including but not limited to, primarily sitting and standing? Primarily remain in a stationary position.

Does this job require the ability to move about inside or outside the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job? No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

Does this job require the ability to transport physical objects? If so, provide the weight of the heaviest object the job needs to transport without the aid of machinery or equipment or the weight equivalency with the aid of machinery or equipment. No

Primarily, where is this job performed? Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

Does this job require the ability to operate equipment or machinery? Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Does this job require the ability to communicate verbally or in written form? Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Does the job require travel? No


Bonus Points If You Have

  • Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management, Finance, Marketing, Communications, or related.

  • 8+ years Finance, Marketing, Operations or general business management, or related

  • Experience building Tableau dashboards and visualizing data



Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Mar-09-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $106,000.0

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