Senior Principal Business Strategy

Discover a brighter future with us. You’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviours: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. We want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies.

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for providing and coordinating support to leadership on strategic business initiatives including planning, prioritisation, and project execution.
• Identify and define growth strategies for the international business as well as coordinate the rollout of those strategies.
• Actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
• Lead or assist with the development and execution of strategies to drive acceptance, payment volume, and incremental revenue for the International Markets team.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external consultants to identify and scale business development opportunities.
• Analyse and document business cases, including market needs, strategic rationale, go-to-market approach, commercialisation, and scaling solutions.
• Manage the initial implementation of strategies across the business, sharing best practices, monitoring rollout, and providing analysis.
• Prepare high quality, data-driven strategy presentations, present to senior management, and gain approvals and consensus.
• Manage and interpret data on business performance and competitor benchmarking to identify opportunities.
• Develop dashboards to monitor effectiveness.
• Provide logistical support and leadership for activities intended to set strategic direction and maintain alignment within the business.
• Participate in business unit scorecard and process reviews.
• Provide overall direction and support to the leadership team in defining, prioritising, pursuing, and monitoring major initiatives.
• Manage budget and expense planning.

Qualifications You’ll Need

• Bachelors in Business Administration and Management, Finance, Marketing, Communications, or related fields.
• Experience in Finance, Marketing, Operations, or general business management.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Masters in Business Administration and Management, Finance, Marketing, Communications or related fields.
• Business strategy management consulting experience.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of the payments industry.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jul-01-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

All Discover employees place our customers at the very centre of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contributes every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

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Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based. Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.