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At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

As a Portfolio Manager, you will be influencing change across a global organization, standing up a best-in-class operating model, and working with partners across all levels of Technology and Product. The ideal candidate is highly organized with effective communication/storytelling skills and a bias towards action, you show up with passion, are not afraid to challenge the status quo and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Partner with the Portfolio Director to help define, plan, and build the technology investment portfolio for Credit and Fraud Risk
• Manage day-to-day Portfolio activities such as resourcing, financial modelling and data trending, risk identification
• Take ownership in managing and ensuring successful financial, delivery and operational outcomes across the portfolio - gathering status updates and escalating delivery risks when needed
• Drive delivery by creating and maintaining a comprehensive view of the organization’s tech investments
• Build strong partnerships with technology, product, finance, and business stakeholders to maintain and deliver against technology roadmaps
• Develop recommendations by connecting the dots between seemingly disparate conversations, workstreams, and data, and synthesizing feedback
• Enable Executive leadership decision making through development and presentation of metrics and insights covering areas of operations, delivery, finance and business
• Collaborate effectively and build key relationships with stakeholder teams to identify and manage milestones and overall plan
• Promote awareness and transparency by keeping stakeholders informed of key decisions and relevant timelines
• Support development of change management initiatives, implementation strategy, and enabling tools/processes

Minimum Qualifications:

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Finance, or another related field, MBA preferred
• 5+ years Portfolio or Program Management experience and leading complex strategic or transformation initiatives in a large technology organization
• Ability to execute and maintain high performance under tight timelines
• Superb written and verbal communication; advanced or expert PowerPoint and visual presentation skills
• Working knowledge of software development processes and Agile methodologies; experience with modern approaches preferred
• Literacy in financial modeling/analysis; should be able to connect strategy to financial results
• Excellent at building relationships and inspiring others
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

To complete your application, please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com