Business Initiatives Manager

The Business Initiative Manager role is a vital part of the delivery organization, creating a bridge between different business units and the delivery teams. Their focus is on understanding and documenting company initiatives using their skills and past experiences managing multiple on-going projects. Strong business acumen with the ability to think outside the box to drive optimal business outcomes. With a strategic mind and a curious nature, they deliver an excellent experience to our internal and external customers. Energetic, personable, detail-oriented, focused, and competent are excellent terms to describe this role.
Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Communicate – Keen ability to communicate ideas effectively by maintaining open, collaborative and solution-focused interactions with stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Collaborate – Effectively interact with key stakeholders to build roadmaps, detailed requirements, milestones and manage overall portfolio goals while helping to the align overall company roadmap. This will include working closely with other departments such as compliance, legal, IT Infrastructure, training, and operations to ensure all systems being developed meet company mandates.
• Organize – Promote awareness and transparency by maintaining program directives and artifacts (including roadmaps, timelines, value studies, and business use cases) in cooperation with the Delivery Manager and other leadership.
• Coordinate – Successfully manages project transitions by coordinating internal and external teams across the programs during the delivery cycle; thrives on the details of meeting goals and making those details transparent and compelling
• Requirements – Document detailed requirements to clearly define the business needs, benefits, and deliverables for each project.

Competencies

• Communication – Excellent verbal and written communication skills including email, PowerPoint and Excel
• Problem-solving – A curious mind, seeing many different angles from which to attack the problem to help develop solutions and maintain program momentum
• Ownership – An unfailing desire to succeed in solving the problem and meeting the program’s delivery goals while exemplifying a strong sense of urgency
• Organization – Masterful ability to stay self-organized and support good organizational skills in others with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Analysis – Strong ability to connect strategy to financial results in meaningful ways (such as “value add” and ROI) and assess ongoing risks and rewards
• Tools – Strong familiarity with project management techniques and tools, including implementation and management
• Use of Technology - Adapts to new technologies. Demonstrates required skills. Keeps technical skills up to date. Troubleshoots technological problems. Uses technology to increase productivity. Examples include proficiency in Excel and\or SQL Server.

Qualifications

• Prior Experience:
  • 5+ years in Program or Product\Project Management
  • 2+ years in business analysis
  • 2+ years in software delivery or technical delivery role, Agile preferred
  • Familiarity with Project Management, Business Analysis and Delivery disciplines
  • Experience in finance preferred
• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred; applicable experience acceptable

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to:
  • constantly remain in a stationary position.
  • occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
  • occasionally lift up to 25 pounds
  • frequently operate standard office equipment such as a computer

Work Environment:

• Office environment.
• Occasional travel may be required.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, and nothing in this herein restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

It is the policy of World Acceptance Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, World Acceptance Corporation will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.