Head of Strategy and Project Management

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Head of Strategy and Project Management, to join our ever-evolving EMEA Enterprise team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

What you’ll own as the Head of Strategy and Project Management

• Responsible for driving the long‑term strategic agenda, planning processes, and cross‑functional alignment required to achieve EMEA’s growth, innovation, and operational objectives.

• Oversight of Project Management team responsible for the Go-live of new business deals (54m$), New business deal reporting and Top SOW deals (22m$ IY).

• Lead multi‑year strategic planning, RM & BD Target Setting, steer annual/quarterly cycles (including business reviews, strategy refreshes, and prioritization discussions), ensuring alignment with Company objectives, market dynamics, customer needs, and financial goals.

• Facilitate EMEA LT alignment with high-level strategy and translate into actionable roadmaps, KPIs, and execution milestones.

• Lead EMEA needs in Capital Investments requests.

• Lead preparation of materials for regulatory and board meetings.

• Facilitate alignment across executive leadership to ensure clarity on goals, decision frameworks, and investment priorities.

• Lead SNL Project Management function to deliver successful customer Go‑Lives, ensuring new business deals activate quickly to realise revenue.

What you’ll bring

• In-depth knowledge of EMEA’s payments ecosystem and regional nuance, with the ability to translate this knowledge into strategic thinking and review of business options.

• Strategic mindset and problem-solving ability, with a track record of driving innovative solutions that optimize business outcomes.

• Understanding of EMEA competitor landscape and able to articulate clear strategy to how we will win in this market.

• Proven experience as a people leader, with a passion for coaching, developing, and inspiring teams to achieve their full potential.

• Executive leadership and stakeholder management, with the ability to influence and align.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional working sessions, strategy offsites and roadmap reviews and challenge thinking, drive alignment without direct authority.

• Skilled in orchestrating complex, multi-workstream initiatives, ensuring structured execution, clear governance, and high accountability.

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About the team

The EMEA Enterprise business has 400+ colleagues, is worth several hundred million and counts some of the world’s largest businesses as our trusted customers.

In this role, you will direct and control activities of one or more broad functional areas, divisions and product groups to drive EMEA revenue and business growth. You will also hold high-level strategic and financial responsibility.

To learn more about our winning teams, check out our world-class teams that own it every day.

What makes a Worldpayer

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

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