The Opportunity:

The Manager, Client Delivery Experience will lead a group of technical and professional staff in a complex, client facing projects to deliver high quality card processing projects, conversions, parameter configuations, set-up of requested solutions, and execution of quality assurance testing. This position will define requirements and processes for implementation of enhancements and new product/services supported on all processing systems and subsystems. The Manager will support the transformation of the organization to deliver quality projects with measureable and positive impacts on the client experience.

The Manager, Client Delivery Experience will assist Sales as needed in the proposal process, which may include on-site presentations of services to potential customers; and interact with CEOs and senior client executives to ensure high levels of client satisfaction. The Manager will assume responsibility for all client projects in assigned area, which may include high-visibility strategic conversions, product implementations; and act as an escalation point of contact for critical issues to ensure quality service and positive relationships between Velera, financial institutions, and partners. This position will provide management leadership and supervision for employees focusing on project implementation using standardized project management processes, tools, and best practices.

Platform and processing parameter configurations present significant risk for operational and revenue loss to Velera and our clients. Provide oversight and leadership of client facing teams in support of all debit and credit platform configurations for multiple vendor processing platforms in accordance with custom client requirements, SLAs, and change management practices to protect from operational loss, revenue loss, and negative cardholder impact.

Day in the Life:

Manage highly trained, client facing project management, and/or technical staff responsible for deploying cross functional teams to deliver high quality project implementations.

Oversee the department’s mission to assist clients in defining system requirements for implementation of products/services, including system conversions, and complex mergers; and ensuring successful deployment.

Manage project implementation staff to assist business and operating units to define product/service system requirements, develop project plans and technical procedures to support implementation on supported processing systems and subsystems, to ensure customer satisfaction. Support product and marketing staff during sales cycle, assisting in identifying and providing for customer needs.

Forecast, recruit, and develop sufficient skilled resources to meet area requirements. Assign resources to project requests based upon established priority and support of other business units.

Guide procedural workflow, establish project management principles and timeline management, enhance inter-departmental communication and relations, and instill accountability, responsibility, and leadership skills in staff members.

Promote operational efficiencies. Identify, evaluate, and promote enhancements to increase efficiencies and provide service at scale. Assist in department’s strategic planning and provide input, recommendations, and direction for process improvements

Develop and manage operational plan for the department. Develop department strategies and execute defined strategic projects.

Monitor progress of all change events and assist in resolution of issues or delays impacting successful conclusion of projects. Maintain updates on enhancements and changes to processing systems and subsystems as they impact team processes.

Develop and ensure compliance to Velera project management processes. Evaluate completed tasks to review variations from established processes and identify opportunities for continous process improvement.

Attend offsite meetings at client locations, other Velera locations, and regional locations of Velera partner vendors as needed.

Provide pre-sale cycle support and consulting including travel to client locations for presentations to senior client management team. Provide ad hoc technical support and consulting to other Velera areas.

Maintain KPIs and OKRs ensuring delivery of high-quality project results, utilizing proactive measures to insure smooth implementation.

Provide after-hours on-call support for project installations as needed.

Maintain thorough knowledge of industry-standard best practices, processes, data mining, and reporting tools as it pertains to PMO project management/deployment of all supported areas of operations.

Demonstrate understanding of complex business processes and systems; maintain a thorough knowledge of processing platforms, interdepenencies and technology capabilities.

Collaborate with senior leadership to align on organizaitonal goals, key initiatives, trends and strategic objectives.

Support Go-To-Market team collaboration meetings to identify business unit impacts and capture resource estimates.

Create department performance standards and procedures supporting business unit objectives; evaluate and provide feedback on individual and team performance for productivity, accuracy, timeliness, losses and rejects; review staffing ratios for equitable distribution of workload.

Establish departmental reports and procedures that comply with established contractual requirements for all client and business partner relationships. Manage, monitor, and continually seek ways to improve reporting requirements. Identify any Service Level Agreement (SLA) variances and communicate such variances to appropriate team members.

Analyze and evaluate project requirements and scheduling, ensuring all necessary documentation and resource requirements are defined and met.

Evaluate requests and support the prioritization of project requests including identification of risks and dependencies, and demonstrating an understanding of the client’s strategic goals.

Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships, including vendor relationships.

Manage and refine non-standard project requests, ensuring proper commercialization and demand foundation is built within the Client Delivery Experience team.

Oversee testing and issue resolution for new product releases that impact operational processes.

Conduct issue and problem resolution and consulting for unexpected outcomes of project or solution implementations.

Provide direction and leadership to staff; guide, coach, mentor and develop staff ensuring compliance with processes and procedures.

Handle interviewing, hiring, promotions, transfers, performance appraisals, compensation, counseling and termination of staff as required.

Develop and maintain staff by establishing the necessary training and leadership that will foster internal growth, advancement and maintain morale.

Direct staff in the development of action plans aimed to increase employee engagement

Direct staff to ensure that all duties are performed according to department performance standards.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in related field and/or equivalent combination of experience and education required.

Eight (8) years in credit/debit card and/or financial industry related experience required, inclusive of five (5) years in client project and/or conversion related experience.

Five (5) years management experience preferred. 

Working knowledge of card processing systems preferred. 

Ability to lead large cross-functional teams and engage with senior leadership both internally and externally.

Ability to analyze and assess business impacts

Demonstrated presentation skills and comfort presenting to all levels of leadership within the organization.

Ability to problem solve and remove barriers.

Ability to deliver objectives within established timelines.

Ability to lead team members in planning, tracking and implementation of complex projects in a fast-paced environment; while managing multiple priorities/initiatives and meeting deadlines. 

Understanding of Six Sigma and project management best practices to implement, monitor, and control changes to existing processes and procedures in order to attain high levels of quality and client satisfaction. 

Thorough understanding of card payment industry, various processing systems, and/or related in-house applications. 

Ability to read and understand legal/compliance contractual requirements and implement within the confines of the agreement.

Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills. 

Proficiency in standard Microsoft Office Suite such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams etc.

Ability to travel up to 50% or as needed.

Ability to maintain confidentiality of materials handled. 

For California, Colorado and New York Applicants:  In accordance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the expected salary range for this position is between:

Actual Pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

This position qualifies for the following benefits; Co-op Solutions offers a competitive Total Rewards package: 401(k) with generous company match, Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance options, Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term disability benefits, Pregnancy and Parental Leave, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, Community Volunteer Time Off, and an Employee Assistance Program.