(USA) Senior Manager, Operations
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Expansion Operations is a critical role within Data Ventures, serving as the connective tissue between Global Data Ventures and local market, banner, or business teams, ensuring successful expansion while balancing standardization with locally-specific requirements. This role will help drive readiness, engagement, and sustained value for large-scale business transformations, ensuring key user groups are prepared to successfully adopt new tools, workflows, and ways of working. This person will support merchants, internal associates, and external partners throughout discovery, deployment, and post-launch stabilization. They will support the engagement, communication, and readiness plans needed to enable successful launches at speed. The New Markets Expansion team drives market exploration and readiness to support startup scaling and deliver comprehensive expansion outcomes for Data Ventures. Managing multiple operational work streams, the team focuses on operational planning, resource allocation, and process improvements to enhance business efficiency and successful launch integration. Collaborating cross-functionally, they develop innovative solutions and tools aligned with business objectives. Committed to operational excellence, the team ensures timely execution, continuous learning, and accountability to achieve measurable results. Their success is reflected in launch completion, speed to profitability, integration efficiency, and leveraging learnings to accelerate future enterprise growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Operations , or related field and 3 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area OR 5 years’ experience in operations, project management, or related area.
- 1 year’s supervisory experience.
- Extensive experience in operations and/or project management with proven ability to lead complex initiatives and manage multiple work streams.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations.
- Demonstrated success in driving business efficiency and cost reduction through innovative solutions and process improvements.
- Expertise in financial management, including budget oversight and profit and loss responsibility.
- Proven ability to lead and develop cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and high performance.
- Excellent influencing and conflict resolution skills to build partnerships and drive execution.
- High business acumen and emotional intelligence that are leveraged to create shared understanding, structure, and accountability across cross-functional teams.
Nice To Haves
- Managing a budget, profit and loss statement, or relate financial process
- Master’s degree in Business Administration or related field like (not limited to) project management, compliance, operations management, or related area
- Project Management Certification
- Masters, Masters: Operations Management
- Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification
Responsibilities
- Oversee business and operational work streams to translate expansion strategies into executable change management initiatives; aligning stakeholders around priorities; and ensuring expansion objectives are successfully delivered.
- Lead operational readiness activities across expansion opportunities by identifying business requirements, understanding impacts to user persona needs, communicating across stakeholder groups, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring successful activation.
- Equip cross-functional teams with the right messaging, onboarding, and support approaches to help both internal and external users succeed.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of current plans and initiatives; consulting cross-functionally to improve efficiency and effectiveness; and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure successful launch and integration through strategic stakeholder management.
Benefits
- performance-based bonus awards
- medical coverage
- vision coverage
- dental coverage
- 401(k)
- stock purchase
- company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- parental leave
- family care leave
- bereavement
- jury duty
- voting
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
