Senior Strategy & Development Manager

Senior Strategy & Development Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in: Business, Finance, Economics, or Engineering; Combination of relevant training and/ or experience in lieu of degree
• Typically Minimum 10+ Years Relevant Exp

Responsibilities

• Leads and supports initiatives in the Issuer segment; strategic planning; acquisition, divestiture, and joint venturing activities; business development; and internal consulting engagements — working independently and exercising wide latitude in determining approaches to issues and situations.
• Leads, facilitates, and supports activities with Global Payments’ executive team to define the mission, vision, goals (“definition of winning”), and strategic priorities (“plan to win”) for Global Payments’ business segments.
• Designs, manages, and supports execution of components of the process by which the company and its business units develop their mid- to long-range plans.
• Leads and supports pipeline development; evaluation; planning; due diligence; negotiation; deal structuring; drafting of bid letters, term sheets and definitive agreements; and execution of acquisition, divestiture and joint venturing opportunities — capable of leading/ managing components of the process on all acquisitions, and leading/managing the entire end-to-end process on small acquisitions.
• Drives and supports activities with internal and external partners to enable the company to develop relationships and secure business opportunities with prospective partners. This would include pipeline development; evaluation; planning; due diligence; negotiation; deal structuring; drafting of bid letters, term sheets and definitive agreements; and execution of business development opportunities.
• Leads and supports various consulting-type engagements for the company and its business units — serving as a key advisor and significant contributor to Global Payments’ executive teams, by providing expert assistance and thought leadership to help them manage their businesses.
• Leads and supports the development of business plans, including authoring and editing business plan documents and presenting the plans to Global Payments’ senior executives.
• Conducts very high-quality research and analysis on industries, markets, products, and companies; assesses Global Payments’ competitive position and identifies threats and opportunities; proposes plans for countering the threats and capturing the opportunities.
• Performs expert-level qualitative, quantitative, and financial analysis.
• Leads and supports the preparation and delivery of very high-quality written and oral presentations to Global Payments’ executives, managers, and team members. Capable of delivering presentations to Global Payments’ senior executives in most instances.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree
• MBA
• Investment banking or with a consulting firm or working in a strategy/mergers and acquisitions team