Strategy Manager

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Overview of the Business

Enterprise Strategy (ES) at American Express works as a partner for our business unit clients and for Amex by informing, resolving, and driving execution of the most critical strategic initiatives. A role partnering with ES at American Express offers the unique opportunity to work across key business lines with the top strategic minds in the company.

Team members in ES are continuously learning due to the incredible breadth and depth of our high impact project assignments. American Express hires individuals into ES to work on critical challenges and innovative opportunities for the company. If you're interested in getting to know all areas of our business and can translate our business needs into remarkable solutions, you should consider a career in Enterprise Strategy.

The team acts as an internal consulting arm for American Express serving CEO, Executive Committee, Board, President of the BUs , CXO Leadership and the EC Working Group

Depending on project needs, as a member of our team, you have to engage in Decision Sciences work involving development and validation of predictive models or Strategic Business and Analytical Solutions related work such as developing, reviewing, or executing business strategies and analytical solutions to drive profitable decisions in areas such as marketing, risk, and credit.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Analyze large amounts of data (both internal and external) to derive strategic insights to focus on mid to long term future of AXP
• Leverage the power of closed loop through Amex network to make decisions more intelligent and relevant
• Independent working with partners/customers to deliver on custom value analytics & actionable insights
• Utilize broad set of analytical tools/techniques for data mining, data cleansing, data extraction, analysis & transformation, data interpretation & insights, turn-key bundled analytic & reporting solutions.
• Experience consulting with business owners and recommending appropriate solutions based on clear understanding of business needs
• Work on various inhouse reporting tools to pull standard & custom reports
• Identify and recommend process improvements based on results of analytics work
• Enhancing the data analytical and capabilities infrastructure
• Establishing a strong network across Amex so as to enable problem-solving and understanding models and capabilities existing within Amex
• Ideating and brainstorming new concepts in advanced analytics leveraging knowledge in statistics, machine learning and data science

Qualifications:

• Post Graduate degree (MBA/MS/M.Tech or similar) in subjects like Marketing, Business, Analytics or Engineering from a reputed institute (IIM/ISB) with minimum experience of 3 years having consulting/data analytics experience or working in a corporate strategy role

Technical Requirement

• Good Programming skills
• Knowledge of SAS, Java, Hive, Pig, Python, SQL is a plus
• Knowledge of MS Office – PowerPoint, Excel

Critical factors for success

• Ability to drive project deliverables to achieve business results
• Ability to lead and mentor teams
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently with complex, unstructured initiatives
• Ability to Integrate with Cross-Functional Business Partners Worldwide

Behavioral Skills

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors:

• Set the Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.