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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

The Vice President, Incentive Design and Governance (IDG) will be responsible for leading the IDG function, overseeing all incentive plan governance processes for sales and service roles across the Enterprise, and serve as a strategic partner to cross-enterprise Business leaders and Colleague Strategic Partners. This role serves as the lead consultant on incentive compensation plan design, understanding the unique landscape of each business unit, and owns the governance of Incentive Plans across the enterprise. This role will report to VP, Regulatory, Executive & Incentive Compensation and will be responsible for leading a geographically dispersed team of ~15 people. The individual will be a member of the Colleague Total Rewards and Well-being (CTRW) Leadership Team, and will work closely with key global Colleague Experience Group (CEG), Colleague Strategic Partners (CSPs), Compliance, Sales, and Pricing partners to ensure sound program and plan design, and that the oversight and governance of our programs are competitive, compliant and continue to meet the business objectives while delivering value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the Incentive Design and Governance strategy, ensuring established and evolving principles effectively enable incentive plans across the enterprise

• Serve as the day-to-day lead over Incentive Design and Governance, ensuring the strategic execution of the team against established goals and objectives, overseeing the budget, timelines, deliverables and quality standards of key process and practices to ensure effectiveness and deliver.

• Oversee management of incentive plan governance processes as well as integrate it into the total rewards strategy, competitive benchmarking, and pay analyses for all sales and service incentive plans across the enterprise to ensure compliance and competitiveness

• Lead the Incentive Plan Governance Committee (IPGC) and lead the conversation to ensure appropriate governance and the reporting into parent Committee

• Serve as the subject matter expert in the incentive space, helping establish and evolve enterprise-wide best practices within the Incentives space, with a heavy focus on risk balancing and governance

• Develop leading practice incentive structures and approaches that provide seamless delivery of appropriate solutions

• Serve as the primary contact to the business on incentive consulting and governance framework, acting as a thought leader and advisor on incentive matters in times of change and evolution to effectively gauge and advise on impact to incentive structures

• Manage business expectations and raise appropriate issues to Senior Leadership

• Reinforce a strong community of practice, across the end-to-end incentive processes and across business units, through interfacing with colleagues from other practices and regions, offering trainings, sessions, and other opportunities for best practice reinforcement

• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with the business through effective communication and efficient, high-quality execution of projects, with clear roles and responsibilities across partnering teams for end-to-end Incentive management.

• Lead the development of new tools and approaches

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience and exposure to a broad range of compensation practices

• Bachelors in Business, Finance, or comparable

• Solid understanding of elements of total compensation programs, and experience with design/ governance of incentive plans would be a plus

• Creative, analytical and results-driven, demonstrated through the ability to draw conclusions, themes, and trends from data analysis, make recommendations on findings and communicate results effectively to a wide range of stakeholders

• Strong collaboration skills; ability to build relationships within an organization

• Display polished and well developed oral and written communication skills

• Bring an enterprise mindset and be able to build connections, leverage existing information and bring external perspective to drive meaningful solutions and impact

• Collaborative partner who can work cross-functionally and across the CTRW Leadership teams to drive the CTRW agenda forward

• Proven people leadership skills and ability to lead geographically diverse team, while creating an overall culture of collaboration, engagement, performance, and innovation

• Provide active leadership to the team, focusing on growth and development of talent and ensuring the right skills, behaviors, and capabilities for impact

• Demonstrated ability to communicate, impact and influence at all levels, including presenting to senior leadership

Qualifications

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions

Salary Range: $185,000.00 to $260,000.00 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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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 .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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: Executive

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Tags PCN-CTRW-5

Req ID: 25007748