Business Manager - Network Innovation

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Riverwoods, IL +1

Business Manager for Network Innovation team, responsible for the full innovation process from inception to execution and implementation, including managing stakeholders, leading engagement teams, and managing risk. Focuses on developing and testing strategies, evaluating implications, and supporting stakeholders with insights.

What you'd actually do

  1. Uncover problems and opportunities worthy of exploration, evaluate potential implications, develop hypotheses, structure experiments to validate/invalidate hypotheses, execute the full innovation process, and support stakeholders as they ingest the insights and learnings from generated evidence.
  2. Manage all aspects of the engagement over its entire life including: the initiation, design and development of plan, identification and management of stakeholders, execution, controls, implementation, and communications.
  3. Assembles and leads the engagement team – usually consisting of internal and external parties – to ensure engagements are completed on time, within budgets, and produce the learnings required to evaluate the engagement hypothesis.
  4. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within day-to-day management.
  5. Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands

Skills

Required

  • Experience in Corporate Innovation
  • Experience in financial services, banking, or payments industry
  • Experience managing stakeholders
  • At least 3 years of professional experience performing analysis
  • Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field or MBA with a quantitative concentration

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field
  • 5+ years of experience in analysis
  • 2+ years of experience in financial services
  • 1+ year of experience in consulting
  • 2+ years of experience in people management

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience managing sensitive and forward-looking initiatives