Description
As a Business Director at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You'll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.
The Global Acceptance Strategy team is looking for a talented and experienced Business Director to partner with senior leaders and help set the strategic direction for our global acceptance strategy. As a Business Director you will leverage your strong analytical rigor to shape and drive both short- and long-term strategic initiatives, ranging from "is this partnership a good opportunity" to "where should we focus our efforts over the next year." You will partner closely with key cross-functional stakeholders across the Global Payment Network (e.g., Sales, Product, Pricing, Risk), leverage market research, and use internal data to support your projects. You will lead a high performing team supporting their professional growth and development.
What you will own:
- Lead the development and analysis of long-term and short-term global acceptance strategies
- Evaluate major deal opportunities, and strategic growth initiatives
- Conduct deep-dive competitive research and market analyses to identify industry trends, benchmark network performance, and surface actionable business insights
- Deliver executive-level narratives, strategic briefings, and recommendations to senior leadership
- Translate complex business questions into structured recommendations while partnering with cross-functional teams
General Responsibilities:
- Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands
- Leadership: May manage and develop multiple analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One
- Execution: Manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently
- Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
- Strategic; analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
- Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: They should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
- Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. They should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results
- Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Clear results orientation: Display an intense focus on achieving both short and long-term goals. They should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
- Successful track record of thriving in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 4 years of experience performing quantitative analysis
- At least 4 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
- At least 2 years of experience performing people management
- At least 2 years of experience performing project management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree
- 2+ years of experience in financial services
- 1+ year of experience in consulting
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $230,400 - $263,000 New York, NY: $251,400 - $286,900 Riverwoods, IL: $209,500 - $239,100 Chicago, IL: $209,500 - $239,100
This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.