About the Role
Our Senior Managers are responsible for identifying and evaluating new business opportunities, including products, marketing strategies, and partnerships, and supports senior leadership to understand market dynamics, competitor moves, and emerging trends. In this role, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You will develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you'll do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. The Strategy team is responsible for working with the Canada leadership team to define long-term goals for the business that enable consistent and resilient growth. In addition, the team works to identify how these goals can be achieved, partnering with key stakeholders, and to prioritize and assess new opportunities and partnerships. The team also maintains close relationships with Capital One US counterparts and business partners to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.
Responsibilities
- Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory behavior, and to drive business to meet long-term goals
- Have an ownership mindset, and P&L accountability for business cases. Strategic planning with a 1-6 month horizon
- May eventually manage and develop a team of analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates throughout the organization with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One
- Coordinate and collaborate across the business to manage and sequence delivery of business cases and initiatives, build business requirements and execute against the growth strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently
- Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: Tech, Marketing, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
- A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
- Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business. Self-starter, and comfortable with blue-sky thinking and working with imperfect/incomplete information
- Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. He/she should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results
- Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
- Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Degree preferred)
- At least 5 years of experience in quantitative analysis/financial modeling
- At least 5 years of experience in qualitative analysis
- At least 3 years of experience in people management
- At least 3 years of experience in project management
- At least 2 years of experience in competitive/market analysis
- Corporate strategy decision making and problem solving using analytics with a basic understanding of credit card
Skills
- quantitative analysis
- financial modeling
- qualitative analysis
- people management
- project management
- competitive/market analysis
- strategic leadership
- business ownership
- leadership
- execution
- partnership
- strategic & analytic orientation
- strong business judgment
- strong people leadership
- strong executive communication
- clear results orientation
Location
- 161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Work Type
- Hybrid work environment, with 3 days in the office
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- At least 5 years of experience in quantitative analysis/financial modeling
- At least 5 years of experience in qualitative analysis
- At least 3 years of experience in people management
- At least 3 years of experience in project management
- At least 2 years of experience in competitive/market analysis
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Master’s Degree preferred
Benefits
- One-time Work From Home allowance
- Full coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents
- Up to $3000 in mental health coverage
- Up to $5000 in tuition subsidies per year
About the Company
- For over 20 years, we’ve been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible, simple, intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit, because we believe in people — in our customers, in our associates, and in talent like you!
- Yes, we’re a credit card company, but we’re more than that too. With your help, we’ll build the next generation of banking in Canada based on customer-focused values, compelling products and great engineering.
- Our Strategy & Analytics Roles are like management consulting, but better. From day one, you’ll have the opportunity to work on solving complex problems, using data-driven decision making to enhance the overall business strategy, while still maintaining work/life balance.
- At Capital One, we love to give our Strategy Analyst Managers the opportunity to rotate to roles across various teams, so we will consider your application for multiple Strategy & Analytics teams as well as offer you the opportunity to rotate to new teams throughout your time at Capital One. This is part of our winning formula for creating great future leaders and as such, this role is well suited to high performers looking for growth opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
- Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.
- We may use your information for automated decision making. We may, for certain purposes, render a decision based exclusively on automated processing of your personal information as a part of the candidate screening process.
