Business Execution Consultant 4 - Contingent

Job Description:

• This role is responsible for managing multiple strategic initiatives, including quarterly release management for Client One Expense Manager (WOEM) across both Client and Visa platforms.
• Responsibilities include overseeing browser/desktop and mobile application releases, maintaining comprehensive project plans, serving as the subject matter expert (SME) for quarterly releases, and leading release management discussions with Product and Technology partners at both Client and Visa.
• In addition, this role provides project management leadership for the Digital Wallet and Virtual Card Program (VCP) initiatives.
• The ideal candidate is a highly organized project and release management professional with strong Commercial Card industry experience.
• This candidate will lead multiple strategic initiatives, coordinate cross-functional teams, oversee technology and product releases, manage risks and dependencies, and serve as a trusted partner between Product, Technology, Operations, and external partners such as Visa and MasterCard.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and execution skills are essential for success in this role.

• Support intake and prioritization processes, establishing transparent and consistent methods for evaluating and onboarding new work into the product backlog.
• Product Delivery (Planning, Prioritization, Delivery, Release):
• Ensure all defined JIRA standardization, requirement templates, and JIRA fields and labeling are implemented and followed within the teams for consistency.
• Create and manage a release plan
• Coordinate cross-functional activities, and cross-product areas, that advance the work owned by the Product Area, helping teams stay focused on delivering committed outcomes.
• Facilitates scrum of scrum with product, scrum and DDI leads to gather execution updates, blockers and dependencies.
• Track and manage intra and inter-product area dependencies, track and manage impediments to features/stories, coordinate testing approaches, and ensure necessary conversations between engineers across different teams are occurring,
• Manage all internal communication and or common groups (AD Groups, Distribution Lists, etc), ensure adherence to JIRA hygiene standards
• Fully understands outlined structure for Planning & Prioritization, prepares product teams for key activities and facilitates required forums with the right teams and stakeholders.
• Act as the ECM and GPL Policy/Procedure SME while ensuring team compliance
• Product Reflect:
• Contributes to status reports and product roadmap updates for larger leadership and product and delivery forums (BUR, etc)
• Support team sustainability and maturity, fostering trusted relationships across product area roles and helping teams evolve toward high performance and autonomy.
• Drive agile best practices and coordinates with other delivery coordinators to scale these practices across product areas.
• Identify gaps in agile practices and create effective training programs for iterative education and refreshers within teams
• Work with scrum masters to prepare accurate and detailed agile metrics and report discrepancies to delivery, tech and product leaders.

• Understanding of commercial credit card products, virtual cards, expense management solutions, and payment ecosystems.
• Familiarity with issuer, network (Visa/Mastercard), and client-facing processes.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and dependencies.
• Experience creating and maintaining detailed project plans, milestones, risks, and issue logs.
• Proven ability to drive projects from initiation through implementation.

• Experience coordinating technology and product releases.
• Ability to oversee quarterly or recurring release cycles, testing activities, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications.

• Strong ability to influence and collaborate across product, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and vendor partners.
• Experience leading meetings, facilitating decision-making, and driving accountability.

• Experience documenting business requirements, user stories, process flows, and operational impacts.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex product and technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks.
• Experience managing escalations and driving timely resolution of issues.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to analyze operational, product, and technology impacts.
• Data-driven decision-making capabilities.

• Experience with Commercial Cards, Virtual Card Programs, Digital Wallets, or Expense Management platforms (e.g., Wells One Expense Manager).
• Familiarity with Visa commercial payment products and release processes.
• Experience working within a large financial institution and navigating governance requirements.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project tracking tools.
• Experience supporting product implementations, client onboarding, or product launches.

• Ability to successfully coordinate cross-functional initiatives, manage timelines, and execute quarterly releases.

• Ability to understand product features, customer impacts, and industry trends.

• Ability to influence partners across Product, Technology, Operations, and external vendors while driving decisions and execution.

• Project/Release Management - Ability to successfully coordinate cross-functional initiatives, manage timelines, and execute quarterly releases.
• Commercial Card & Payments Expertise - Ability to understand product features, customer impacts, and industry trends.
• Stakeholder Leadership & Communication - Ability to influence partners across Product, Technology, Operations, and external vendors while driving decisions and execution.

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Business Execution.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Business Execution challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

• 5 plus years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

• Location: USA-NC-CHARLOTTE-1525 W W T Harris Blvd-141278 (Only location available)
• Pay Range: $60.00- $65.00/hr on W2
  
  The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.
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