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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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Technology Workforce team is a center of excellence (COE) that is tightly aligned with and supports the strategic talent objectives of the Technology organization. As our Technology organization continues to grow so must our workforce strategy. The Director of Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) will be instrumental in how we transform our workforce strategy to ensure we have the right talent, in the right place, at the right time, to meet the delivery needs of the company.

To ensure we attract, grow, and develop our talent intentionally, the Director will lead a team that partners with members of the executive Technology Leadership Team (TLT), and their direct reports to inform them of the key performance indicators (KPIs) critical to achieve their multi-year aspirations. By generating rich insights, trends and sharing best practices, the Director will build strong relationships and influence the outcomes and goals by taking a data driven and action-oriented approach.

The Director will also be a key enabler of, and contributor to, our transformation journey - to elevate our insights through bringing or developing an external perspective, and a continuous improvement mindset. They will be accountable for the execution and governance against the Strategic Workforce Plan (SWP) for in-year and future strategy planning, leading a multi-year workforce refresh for the TLT stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Enabling a systematic process of analyzing, forecasting, and planning their workforce.

• Leveraging and driving best practices utilizing the workforce modelling and dashboard capabilities.

• Determining the supply and demand to meet delivery needs.

• Generating insights, trends, and actions to meet in year and multi-year goals.

• Governance of our monthly reporting and mechanisms for stakeholder input and feedback.

• Partner closely with Technology Finance and other related Technology transformation programs to ensure consistency in data usage and reporting.

• Use external bench marking data to identify solutions and drive talent recommendations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Experience with analytics and the ability to draw conclusions and make inferences from the data.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to develop; measurable goals to track success.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills required, experience with senior stakeholder management.

• Highly organized with experience running large scale programs

• Experience working with external third parties and building strong relationships and leading teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategic Workforce Planning experience preferred

• Experience consulting or experience working closely with technology teams.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $145,000.00 to $230,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25012184