Senior Manager, Small Business Card & Rewards Analytics

** Description*
* At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared  values  and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

** Overview of the Business:*
* Global Commercial Services (GCS) is the leading payment issuer and partner for businesses with products and services that help them grow and run their businesses.  The GCS Product Analytics team plays a pivotal role within the GCS Products organization by providing advanced analytics and statistical methodologies to drive deep insights into client behavior.  Our mission is to inform and shape product strategies and deliver connected, personalized experiences that foster deeper client engagement and drive sustainable, profitable growth.

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* The Senior Manager, Small Business Card and Rewards Analytics will lead the strategy and execution of SBS card product performance, engagement, and usage analytics delivering insights to expand and deepen our relationship with customers. This critical role will partner with product, marketing, credit risk, and finance teams to inform rewards constructs and benefits-led product line strategies that differentiate American Express offerings in the marketplace while driving balanced economics.

This role represents a unique opportunity to leverage applied quantitative experience to directly shape business strategy and role requires a high level of expertise in driving decisions backed by data insights, deploying advanced predictive and statistical methodologies, leading strategic analytics, and designing scalable data assets. The ideal candidate will bring a unique balance of technical skills combined with a strategic mindset and the ability to communicate effectively.

They will be able to work in white space with unstructured problems and build successful partnerships with a large variety of teams and business units to identify opportunities and influence outcomes.

** Responsibilities:*
* + Translate business problems into data strategies and lead analytical work streams on SBS customer engagement, usage, and retention leveraging advanced analytical techniques including clustering, machine learning, and statistical analysis 

+ Lead strategy and execution for creation of SBS card transaction and customer data assets including migration of source data to cloud environment and design of sustainable, optimized data structure 

+ Analyze expected impact on business of potential charge product features and enhancements and advise senior leaders on product roadmap 

+ Design, launch and measure tests of product construct configurations to increase rewards and benefits awareness, redemption, and spend;
Build analytical frameworks for robust measurement when clear A/B testing doesn't exist.

+ Identify and build behavior-based segmentation to provide insights into customer behavior and drive recommendations for business priorities.

+ Serve as subject matter expert for SBS card portfolio performance, leading regular product performance reviews for card leadership 

+ Manage and prioritize demands for data, ad hoc analytics, and reporting from multiple stakeholders, reallocating resources as necessary to ensure alignment with business priorities 

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* Minimum Qualifications:

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* + Relevant professional experience including extensive experience in hands-on analytical role(s) leveraging data to drive decisions, translate operational performance into financial implications, and influencing business strategies

+ Extensive experience building sustainable data assets using cloud-based analytical tools, querying languages, and visualization software (e.g., SQL, Python, Databricks, Tableau)

+ Good understanding of card economics and performance drivers with proven success…