Global Payments Inc.
Strategic Planning Manager
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Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Strategic Planning Manager to join our ever evolving Enterprise Operations team and help shape the future of global commerce.
What You’ll Own
This is a high-impact, pivotal role at the centre of shaping and delivering Enterprise Operations & Enterprise AI strategy. As Strategic Planning Manager, you will operate as a strategic thinker and problem solver, driving clarity on complex, ambiguous business challenges and translating ambition into actionable, measurable plans.
- Strategy Development & Delivery: Own the end-to-end development of strategic priorities across Enterprise Operations, converting high-level ambition into executable plans. Leverage data and commercial insight to identify and quantify opportunities, and align stakeholders to deliver measurable, enterprise-wide impact.
- Problem Solving & Business Performance: Solve complex business challenges using structured, data-driven thinking—identifying root causes, evaluating options, and delivering scalable solutions that drive efficiency and performance.
- Programme & Initiative Delivery: Coordinate and deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives aligned to strategic priorities. Independently define project scope, structure execution, and adapt delivery approaches to ensure outcomes are achieved and long-term business value is realised.
- Executive Insight & Communication: Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives for senior stakeholders, including SVP and CEO audiences. Develop strategic materials to deliver insight-led recommendations that inform decision-making and prioritisation.
- Governance, Planning & Alignment: Build and optimise governance and planning processes to enable clear prioritisation, visibility, and accountability, ensuring alignment across Enterprise Operations.
- Stakeholder Leadership & Influence: Proactively build and maintain a strong internal network, including senior stakeholders across functions, levels, and geographies.
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What You’ll Bring
At Global Payments, we’re looking for individuals who are passionate, accountable and determined, people who thrive in complexity and are driven to make meaningful impact.
- Strategic expertise: Proven experience operating in strategy, transformation, or consulting environments, ideally within large, global organisations
- Problem-solving mindset: Ability to tackle complex business challenges with structured, analytical, and creative thinking
- A track record of independently leading high-impact initiatives end-to-end, taking accountability for outcomes and delivery
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to distil complexity into compelling narratives that resonate with senior stakeholders
- Strong analytical capabilities, experience using data to generate insight, challenge thinking, and inform decisions
- Self-starter with a resourceful, forward-thinking mindset—anticipating needs and identifying opportunities to drive value
- Collaboration & inclusion: Skilled at building trusted relationships and working inclusively across functions, levels, and geographies
- Able to apply a Global lens and balance enterprise-wide consistency with regional nuance in a dynamic, international environment.
- Passion for leveraging technology, and Innovation including AI and automation, to transform how we operate and deliver impact.
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About The Team
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.
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