Job Description

Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)



Please review the following job description:

BB&T and SunTrust formed Truist with a shared purposeto inspire and build better lives and communities. With our combined resources, collective passion, and commitment to innovation, were creating a better financial experience to help people and businesses achieve more.

With 275 years of combined BB&T and SunTrust history, Truist serves approximately 12 million households with leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country. The company offers a wide range of services including retail, small business and commercial banking; asset management; capital markets; commercial real estate; corporate and institutional banking; insurance; mortgage; payments; specialized lending; and wealth management. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist is the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S.

Payments is one of the most important and ubiquitous aspects of banking and is a frontier where Truist will continue to invest to provide distinctive, secure, and simple client experiences. Newly established Enterprise Payments Group has an opportunity to drive better alignment across Truists payments franchise and to keep the finger on the pulse of competitive developments in this rapidly evolving space. Enterprise Payments Group will partner with all relevant stakeholders to:

* Conduct an objective and analytically driven strategic analysis of Truists payments assets and initiatives;
* Leverage these findings to help imagine, define, and deliver an over-arching payments strategy to influence next generation payment products, services, and infrastructure to meet our clients needs and to drive financial results;
* Evaluate internal, external, and adjacent opportunities, including potential partnerships, investments, and acquisitions to help advance Truists payments capabilities and competitive positioning;
* Serve as a central source of payments industry knowledge and expertise, helping to provide thought leadership, research, and education; and
* Advance the banks agenda among key industry groups and consortia

Job Summary: Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Payments Group, the Enterprise Payments Strategy Manager helps drives the design, development, and delivery of Truists Enterprise Payments Strategy at Truist. Provides thought leadership, strategy and guidance on payments and commerce, and nurtures and promotes payments innovation initiatives across the enterprise. He/She is a lead person for all Retail (or Wholesale) payments strategy activities.

Duties & Responsibilities:

* Lead all things Retail or Wholesale payments strategy
* Work to maintain a cohesive, comprehensive, differentiating, and actionable payments strategy for designated area.
* Work closely with the Head of Enterprise Payments Group to formulate a plan to define and revise strategic direction in Retail (or Wholesale) payments.
* Lead multiple payments strategy projects and initiatives with multiple internal clients at the same time
* Build and maintain relationships with all relevant payments leaders internally
* Lead and participate in an Operational Payments Roundtable with relevant payment stakeholders
* Manage, and actively participate in, Truists portfolio of payments industry consortia, partnerships, memberships, and investments (e.g. TCH, EWS) including representing Truist on committees.
* Serve as a payment SME for Truist Ventures and Digital Strategy to engage the external payments and commerce ecosystem in identifying, qualifying, and/or commercializing prospective partners.
* Support the Truist brand in payments ecosystem, telling our story both internally and externally at industry events and conferences.
* Regularly share perspective on payments and commerce with internal payments leaders and stakeholders to support business initiatives and to ensure that Truist is ready for the future of payments.
* Coach and develop talent

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelors degree in quantitative field (engineering, math, economics)
* Masters degree or equivalent education and related training or experience
* 10-12 years of experience in a combination payments and consulting in financial services industry
* Possess financial services experience and deep payments knowledge and experience
* Experience in strategy (corporate or line of business), corporate development or partnerships
* Has held professional services oriented jobs external or internal (e.g. consultant, banker)
* Experience leading complex strategic projects and initiatives; ability to frame complex strategic questions and turn them into projects and outputs
* Ability to lead multiple projects with multiple clients at the same time
* Distinctive problem-solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment
* Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
* Outstanding skills presenting/communicating ideas and data to executive-level leaders
* Strong strategic thinker; maintain the ability to quickly assess complex problems, prioritize key issues, and focus on relevant facts
* Demonstrated experience in managing a varied team of professionals and a proven ability to coach, nurture and develop a team
* Expert relationship builder; develop open, effective, considerate, and productive working relationships; can work the matrix and gain credibility quickly with internal and external constituents. Ability to maneuver complex organizations and internal dynamics
* High-level of adaptability; respond appropriately and competently to the demands of work challenges when confronted with change, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures
* Take high degree of personal ownership; assume responsibility for effectively meeting objectives, intrinsically motivated to get job done, perform duties in an organized, accurate, and productive fashion, and seek out ways to improve effectiveness
* History of teamwork and willingness to roll up ones sleeves to get the job done
* Ability to travel

Preferred Qualifications:

* Five years of experience in a top strategy or management consulting firm (e.g. McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Oliver Wyman), or equivalent