New Business Strategy Senior Manager - Bread

New Business Strategy Senior Manager

The New Business Strategy Senior Manager serves as the primary liaison between Bread Financial and new brand partners, ensuring a seamless integration and adoption of services. This role is pivotal in strategizing and executing portfolio management, fostering client relationships, and driving growth through informed business decisions.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborate with leadership to develop and implement portfolio strategies for new clients, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Will own relevant value proposition for assigned portfolio(s). Work closely with Product center of excellence to ensure product offerings, features, and capabilities are strategically integrated into client programs.
  
  - (30%)
• Guide client through the onboarding process, ensuring alignment with Bread Financial procedures and marketing strategies. Manage client expectations during the onboarding process and serve as client advocate during all internal meetings. Drive teams to ensure contractual obligations are met, including challenging program performance expectations based on capability alignment and timelines.
  
  - (25%)
• Leverage understanding of P&L to influence product and acquisition strategies and manage marketing funds. Oversee reporting setup and drive development of custom reporting as necessary. Will manage marketing funds for assigned client(s) and marketing calendar.
  
  - (25%)
• Leads the strategy for new client implementation and overarching delivery of modeled expectations erstand key metrics needed and relevant proof points to bring forward and enhance the strategic discussion on behalf of the GM or Director.
  
  - (10%)
• Understands credit management practices with regard to credit line assignments and activation rates. Works cross-functionally with Fraud, Risk, Analytics and other key partners to deliver on strategic goals. Serves as internal point of escalation of client-related issues as well as strategic lead for project teams related to issue remediation.
  
  - (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing or equivalent, relevant work experience
• 12+ years in Account Management, Sales, Finance, Product Management, Project Management, Marketing, or credit card portfolio management

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing
• 10+ years management experience in a multi-level organization.
• Demonstrated business and financial acumen within financial services, banking, payments, or fintech, with the ability to translate complex portfolio data and market insights into compelling executive-level recommendations and strategic growth opportunities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex product capabilities to clients, brands, and business stakeholders, influence decision-making, and drive stakeholder buy-in and adoption.

Skills

• Long Term Planning
• Account Management
• Portfolio Strategies
• Project Management
• Client Onboarding
• Relationship Management
• Expense Management
• Portfolio Management

Reports To:

Director and above Direct Reports: 0 Work Environment

• Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid), 3 to 4 days per month are required in office if within 60 miles of a posted Bread Financial location.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 20% quarterly

Physical and Mental Requirements To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical, mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, absent undue hardship.

• Communicate/Hearing
• Communicate/Talking
• Stationary Position/Seated
• Typing/Writing
• Maintain focus in high pressure or fast-paced work environment

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

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