Corporate Card Strategy Lead

Job Description

Position Description:

Corporate Card Strategy Lead

The Corp Card Strategy Lead is an Associate Director role that sits within the Travel Meetings Card & Fleet Sourcing and Operations Team.  The role reports to the Director, Payments Services Sourcing and Strategy and is responsible for ongoing regional management of the company's Corporate Card programs, sourcing, and other payments initiatives, in alignment with global strategy.  The role will work in collaboration with Sourcing and Procurement, Finance, Treasury and other relevant regional business partners and stakeholders.

Specifically, the responsibilities of the role involve the following:

• Strategy Development: The role is a core team member of the Payments team and is responsible for supporting the strategy development, implementation and monitoring of the Payments strategy.  S/he is responsible for clearly representing the region’s requirements, unique attributes, issues, and other statistics to ensure strategies consider and address local nuances specifications.  S/he will align directly with the Travel Meetings Card & Fleet Director and Regional Sourcing and Procurement.

• Program Management: Lead all regional implementations and optimization efforts in collaboration with the local stakeholders.  Drive efficiencies in the regional operations by reducing corporate card delinquency rates; establishing and reporting on program metrics.

• Stakeholder Management and Alignment: Support Management with local / regional stakeholder engagement by providing data, reports and other solutions related to payments operations.  Support collaboration with other regional business functions (Finance, Treasury, Source-to-Settle, Compliance, etc.) for initiatives, developing and supporting stakeholder initiatives, supporting profit planning process and facilitating achievement of business goals

• Cardmember Communication: Proactively educate cardmembers via written communications and virtual onboarding sessions. Serve as the primary point of contact for card-related questions within the assigned region

• Support the strategy and rollout of new initiatives.  Educate internal stakeholders on the value of these programs.

• Model and measure effectiveness of program in terms of impact to working capital, user experience as well as increased spend with Small & Diverse Suppliers

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Required: Undergraduate Degree

• Preferred: MBA

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of five (5) or more years in in corporate card administration, business analysis, finance, or related strategic procurement or Analytical/Business Intelligence role or two years with an advanced degree

• Minimum of two (2) years of Procurement Experience

• Very strong analytical skills, reporting and data management skills

• Experience with various spend analytics tools

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

• Strong communications and influencing skills

• Proven ability to collaborate with a wide variety of individuals, including senior management, stakeholders, team members, other departments and suppliers

• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• MBA or other advanced degree in relevant field

• Experience in Pharmaceutical-related payments operations

• Experience in implementing corporate card programs

• Six sigma training or green or black belt qualification a plus

• Broad base payments category knowledge

• Experience using Concur Expense Management Software

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