Senior Manager - Strategic Planning Job at Lensa, New York, NY

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  • Lensa
  • New York, NY

Job Description

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Description

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This Senior Manager role sits within the Global Customer Experience organization and will be a critical part of the Enterprise Engagement team, leading and implementing global strategic initiatives that support the TLS Future is Now 2.0 transformation agenda. These initiatives require not only cross-functional coordination and collaboration across TLS, but also the Enterprise, supporting both the strategic direction of the initiative as well as its planning and execution.

We are looking for a highly skilled technical Program Management Office Manager. The ideal candidate will have experience working in e-commerce environments and be comfortable managing complex, technical projects with multiple stakeholder

Responsibilities

Program Management:

  • Support the stand-up of the PMO framework, including defining and engaging appropriate workstreams and owners to deliver on the strategy
  • Ensure clear definition of roles, responsibility & accountability as it relates to the program framework and milestones
  • Partner with workstream owners to manage and drive the workstreams forward to deliver on project milestones and to drive speed in decision-making, prioritization and escalations
  • Proactively identify, raise and solve roadblocks to keep projects on track
  • Provide day-to-day program management structure and support, including milestone tracking, RAID updates, status reports, scorecard tracking and ensuring the proper meeting cadence is in place to support communication across teams and to leadership
  • Coordinate with market resources for operational readiness and change management of initiative launches
  • Regularly interact with senior executives on program status, issues and to facilitate decision making

Industry & Technical

  • Possess a detailed understanding of web and mobile application architecture, including APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure
  • Provide guidance on best practice on how to manage new technical portfolio management to implementation.
  • Configure and manage Airtable databases, automations and integrations for project tracking and reporting
  • Develop structured workflows using Airtable to support cross-functional teams

Minimum Qualifications

  • Strong Program & Project Management - Proven experience with governance, planning, risk management, and delivery across complex initiatives.
  • Strong capability to translate complex technical topics into actionable program direction for both senior stakeholders and cross-functional delivery teams.
  • Able to interpret data, identify issues early, structure ambiguous problems, and drive informed decisions
  • Skilled at prioritizing, managing multiple workstreams, tracking details, and ensuring progress despite roadblocks.
  • Experience managing cross-market regulatory and operational requirements

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with digital UI/UX change management
  • Ability to manage and coordinate technical dependencies across Central and Local teams, ensuring alignment on architecture, funding, and delivery timelines.
  • Experience contributing to risk assessments and mitigation plans
  • Strong understanding of global platform migrations, including how multiple markets integrate into a single global web
  • Experience with platform ecosystems, including how digital experiences interface with mid and back office workflows

Qualifications

Salary Range: $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

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
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
  • 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
  • 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Project

Primary Location: US-Florida-Sunrise

Other Locations: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25022872

If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com

Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Local area, Flexible hours,

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