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The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.\nThe 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 configurations, 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 measurable 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.\nDay in the Life:\nManage highly trained, client facing project management, and/or technical staff responsible for deploying cross functional teams to deliver high quality project implementations.\n\nOversee 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.\n\nManage 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.\n\nForecast, 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.\n\nGuide 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.\n\nPromote 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\n\nDevelop and manage operational plan for the department. Develop department strategies and execute defined strategic projects.\n\nMonitor 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.\n\nDevelop and ensure compliance to Velera project management processes. Evaluate completed tasks to review variations from established processes and identify opportunities for continous process improvement.\n\nAttend offsite meetings at client locations, other Velera locations, and regional locations of Velera partner vendors as needed.\n\nProvide 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.\n\nMaintain KPIs and OKRs ensuring delivery of high-quality project results, utilizing proactive measures to insure smooth implementation.\n\nProvide after-hours on-call support for project installations as needed.\n\nMaintain 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.\n\nDemonstrate understanding of complex business processes and systems; maintain a thorough knowledge of processing platforms, interdepenencies and technology capabilities.\n\nCollaborate with senior leadership to align on organizaitonal goals, key initiatives, trends and strategic objectives.\n\nSupport Go-To-Market team collaboration meetings to identify business unit impacts and capture resource estimates.\n\nCreate 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.\n\nEstablish 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.\n\nAnalyze and evaluate project requirements and scheduling, ensuring all necessary documentation and resource requirements are defined and met.\n\nEvaluate requests and support the prioritization of project requests including identification of risks and dependencies, and demonstrating an understanding of the client’s strategic goals.\n\nManage internal and external stakeholder relationships, including vendor relationships.\n\nManage and refine non-standard project requests, ensuring proper commercialization and demand foundation is built within the Client Delivery Experience team.\n\nOversee testing and issue resolution for new product releases that impact operational processes.\n\nConduct issue and problem resolution and consulting for unexpected outcomes of project or solution implementations.\n\nProvide direction and leadership to staff; guide, coach, mentor and develop staff ensuring compliance with processes and procedures.\n\nHandle interviewing, hiring, promotions, transfers, performance appraisals, compensation, counseling and termination of staff as required.\n\nDevelop and maintain staff by establishing the necessary training and leadership that will foster internal growth, advancement and maintain morale.\n\nDirect staff in the development of action plans aimed to increase employee engagement\n\nDirect staff to ensure that all duties are performed according to department performance standards.\n\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree in related field and/or equivalent combination of experience and education required.\n\nEight (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.\n\nFive (5) years management experience preferred. \n\nWorking knowledge of card processing systems preferred. \n\nAbility to lead large cross-functional teams and engage with senior leadership both internally and externally.\n\nAbility to analyze and assess business impacts\n\nDemonstrated presentation skills and comfort presenting to all levels of leadership within the organization.\n\nAbility to problem solve and remove barriers.\n\nAbility to deliver objectives within established timelines.\n\nAbility 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. \n\nUnderstanding 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. \n\nThorough understanding of card payment industry, various processing systems, and/or related in-house applications. \n\nAbility to read and understand legal/compliance contractual requirements and implement within the confines of the agreement.\n\nDemonstrated analytical and quantitative skills. \n\nProficiency in standard Microsoft Office Suite such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams etc.\n\nAbility to travel up to 50% or as needed.\n\nAbility to maintain confidentiality of materials handled. \n\nAbout Velera\nAt Velera, inclusion isn’t an initiative – it’s how we work. Guided by a people‑helping‑people philosophy, we cultivate a culture where every employee feels valued, respected and empowered to do their best work. We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering meaningful connection across our teams. Through a remote‑first, flexible environment, we prioritize psychological safety, wellbeing and belonging so individuals and teams can collaborate to thrive. Together, we’re shaping a new era of secure, innovative solutions for the clients and communities we serve. Learn more about what it’s like to work at Velera.\nPay Equity$105,600.00 - $134,600.00 - $163,600.00 of salary range\n\nThe anticipated hiring range for this position is typically between the minimum and midpoint of the posted salary range; however, actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, education, internal equity, and overall business and budget considerations. Velera is committed to providing competitive compensation that reflects both individual role and responsibilities, individual performance, and market.\nGreat Work/Life Benefits!\nCompetitive wages\n\nMedical with telemedicine\n\nDental and Vision\n\nBasic and Optional Life Insurance\n\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\n\nMaternity, Parental, Family Care\n\nCommunity Volunteer Time Off\n\n12 Paid Holidays\n\nCompany Paid Disability Insurance\n\n401k (with employer match)\n\nHealth Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions\n\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA)\n\nSupplemental Insurance\n\nMental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)\n\nTuition Reimbursement\n\nWellness program\n\nBenefits are subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions\n\nVelera is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.\nVelera is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following \"EEO is the Law\" Poster. Velera will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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