Director - Program Management; Strategic Workforce Planning

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24 / 7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

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.

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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 :