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Description
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.
Function Description:
Global Services Group (GSG) brings together the company’s external and internal servicing functions.
SABE
Sales and Business Enablement (SABE) is an internal servicing team within GSG providing sale performance reporting and business enablement support to the enterprise. The objective of the SABE Performance Reporting and Insights team is to ensure that Commercial and Merchant businesses have timely and accurate reporting, insights and forward-looking actions to help drive business performance. In addition to the reporting and insights, the team is also responsible for Sales Incentive Processing for GMNS sales colleagues.
Responsibilities:
The position provides a unique opportunity for an individual to build his skill across reporting, incentives, and platform management. Specifically, the position will be responsible for development & ongoing delivery of Performance Reporting & Insights Suite, Sales Incentive Processing, and management of incentive platform for Merchant Acquisition within Global Merchant & Network Services. This role places a focus on ability to think analytically and rationally, to synthesize complex data & deliver reporting, incentive calculation for sales colleagues in GMNS business and managing incentive and reporting platform.
- Deliver comprehensive performance reporting and Insights to help the leadership team and individuals evaluate and drive business performance
- Ensure timely and accurate quarterly incentive calculation for sales colleague
- Run/Design incentive calculation model, perform high quality due diligence on the payments for the given portfolio/s
- Manage Reporting & Incentive Platform
- Ensure strict adherence of control and compliance and related policies
- Partner with functional leaders, Strategic Business Partners and senior leaders to remove friction points, ensure data integrity for reporting and insights to fulfill business requirements and enable actions.
- Understand complex operational systems and business intelligence tools, sales
- Platforms for developing efficient, insightful products and offerings for customers
- Devise process improvement tools and methodologies that will ensure flawless delivery exceeding customer expectations.
- Evolve reporting to meet key business priorities, engage early on with stakeholders, gain buy in for implementing proposed solutions.
- Leverage best practices internally and bring outside-in perspective to deliver best of breed reporting and insights
- Good communication skills and ability to work with stakeholders across different geographical locations
Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):
Business Outcomes:
- Strong analytical skills and an innovative approach to solving both practical and theoretical problems and a tremendous will to win
- Demonstrated ability to provide insight and accurate judgment in addressing and resolving business challenges and opportunities
- Ability to interpret insights to derive strong requirements and prioritization based on data.
- Strong people relationship building, management and influencing skills
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Engage with key stakeholders to drive initiatives to enhance sales experience.
- Automate and standardize reporting processes
Leadership Outcomes:
- Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
- Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
- Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
- Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day
Minimum Qualifications
Past Experience
1-2 years relevant experience with excellent knowledge of Reporting, Incentive Processing and Visualization tools
Functional
- Understanding of sales business process
- Exposure to Sales Incentive Plan & Design constructs
- Analytics & reporting domain experience
Technical
- Analytics & Insights & Targeting
- Strong Python, SAS, SQL
- Preferred knowledge of XML
- Basic Statistical Knowledge: Hive/ML techniques
- Advanced data manipulation & automation skills
- Data visualization
Preferred:
- Data Analytics , Automation experience
Platforms
- Big Data Platforms: Cornerstone
- Visualization Platforms: VBA, Tableau
- Advanced MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)
- Amex Platform Knowledge: CS/ CODL
Behavioral
Enterprise Leadership Behaviors
- Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
- Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
- Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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