American Express - Providence, RI

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Providence, RI
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

As a Technical Customer Onboarding Manager at American Express Global Business Travel (GBT), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful implementation of technical workstreams and customer product suites during project implementations. Your primary responsibility will be to align the various stakeholders involved in product implementations with the overall objectives of the customer. This involves maintaining and communicating the customer's global strategy and approach across different regions, ensuring that all technical workstreams are aligned with these goals. You will create timelines for technical deployment, collaborating closely with the Customer Onboarding Manager (COM), relevant units, and the customer to ensure that these timelines fit within the overall project schedule. In this role, you will help those responsible for product implementations succeed by setting clear delivery expectations, providing a comprehensive scope overview, and developing detailed project plans. You will work with product Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and deployment teams to ensure that each product is deployed on schedule and within scope. As the single point of contact for the customer regarding all technical and product queries, you will liaise with workstream owners to provide updates and resolutions to the customer. Your ability to build and manage solid project plans will be crucial, as you will need to manage risks and issues while controlling any changes that may impact customer outcomes. You will also be responsible for providing status updates on technical deployments back to the COMs, which will be incorporated into overall status updates for internal partners and the customer. Strong relationship management skills will be essential as you work to understand and meet customer requirements throughout the implementation process. Additionally, you will liaise with compliance teams to ensure that all Global and Regional Legal and Compliance GBT standards are met in relation to products and technology within the project scope. Your expertise will be vital in reviewing, raising, and handling any risks or issues related to technical deployment, collaborating with workstream owners to resolve and mitigate these challenges. You will ensure the execution of prescribed end-to-end test plans to meet quality metrics and provide best practices and expertise on new products.

Responsibilities

  • Owner of the Technical workstreams and customer product suite within the overall project during project implementations
  • Aligning those responsible for the product implementations to the overall customer objectives
  • Maintain and communicate customers' global strategy and approach with all technical workstreams over different regions, to ensure alignment
  • Create timeline for technical deployment, working alongside Customer Onboarding Manager (COM) and Units as well as all other relevant work stream owners & the customer to ensure it fits in overall project timeline
  • Help those responsible for the product implementations to be successful by setting out clear delivery expectations, provide clear scope overview and project plans
  • Work with each product SME/deployment team to deploy each product and manage the governance on schedule and scope
  • Single point of contact for customer for all applicable technical/ product queries, liaison with workstream owners to review the same and revert to the customer with an update / resolution for the same
  • Build and manage solid project plans, manage risks and issues and control changes that may impact the customer outcomes
  • Provide status updates on technical deployment back to COMs to incorporate in overall status update to internal partners and customer
  • Strong relationships and partner management to understand and meet customer requirements during the implementation process
  • Liaise with compliance teams, when necessary and linked to products and technology in project scope to ensure Global and Regional Legal and Compliance GBT standards are met
  • Review /raise/handle any risks or issues relating to technical deployment and work with the workstream owners to resolve and mitigate the same
  • Collaborate with technical / product team to resolve any technical /product functionality issues/concerns
  • Ensure execution of prescribed end to end test plans to meet the quality metrics
  • Provide expertise on new products
  • Provide best practices

Requirements

  • A passion for working directly with customers and strong relationship building
  • Understanding of GBT and corporate travel
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced matrix environment including managing across multiple geographies, functions & time zones
  • A positive, 'can do' attitude
  • Able to motivate a project team and manage under pressure
  • Business English mandatory - multi-lingual capability advantageous
  • Great communication skills and presentation skills
  • Ability to clearly articulate an accountability, then hold people accountable
  • Commercial awareness and strong relationship building skills
  • Excellent relationship building, influencing, negotiating, communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to drive change in the face of possible resistance
  • Effective time management, multi-tasking prioritization skills
  • Experience implementing complex technical platforms
  • High degree of problem solving and decision-making and ability to adapt to changing priorities
  • Ability to perform in complex cross-functional, global, business environment
  • Flexibility and the ability to adapt to change
  • Knowledge of American Express Global Business Travel Products globally
  • Previous experiences in software implementation would be an asset
  • Ability to understand and manage projects and technology
  • Happy to be challenged and to challenge people and processes
  • Experience collaborating across multiple functional groups and with operational SME's

Nice-to-haves

  • Previous experiences in software implementation would be an asset
  • Multi-lingual capability advantageous

Benefits

  • Flexible benefits tailored to each country
  • Health and welfare insurance plans
  • Retirement programs
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Travel perks with deals from major travel providers
  • Global tuition assistance
  • Access to over 20,000 courses on learning platform
  • Leadership courses
  • Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives
  • Opportunities for internal candidates to apply for new job openings first
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