Job Description 

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let’s lead the way together.

How we serve our customers is constantly evolving and is a challenge we gladly accept. Whether you’re finding new ways to prevent identity fraud or enabling customers to start a new business, you can work with one of the most valuable data sets in the world to identify insights and actions that can have a meaningful impact on our customers and our business. And, with opportunities to learn from leaders who have defined the course of our industry, you can grow your career and define your own path. Find your place in risk and analytics on #TeamAmex.

We are looking for a project management specialist to join the newly formed Paid Search Enablement Team.

The enablement team is responsible for all paid search activation and management within the US market. A critical part of the US acquisition strategy.

This role will assume responsibility for all areas of project management within the team. This includes liaison with stakeholders, setting up and managing deliverables and associated timelines, managing internal programs related to both performance marketing and control and compliance.

You will play a key role in shaping cross team thinking and driving paid search innovations. Enacting strategies and tactics both within and outside the team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to put your own stamp on a new function within the team as well support a highly visible, key project with AMEX. This is an individual role within the team, reporting to the director.

Key Responsibilities:

• Originate and own all project management requirements within the team
• Lead stakeholder management within team, with other internal stakeholders and externally as required
• Create Strategic project planning documentation and processes
• Support managers and directors within the team to realize team goals
• Initiate new ideas and processes to improve governance and work within the team
• Manage Risk, procurement and QA processes required within the team
• Measure performance against goals

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented with solid organizational and time management skills
• Strategic thinking and the ability to clearly plot out paths to success
• Track record of delivery against goals
• Experience of managing stakeholders in a matrix environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including presenting to peers and senior management. 
• Problem solving. The ability to solve issues that may arise under your own initiative
• Performance marketing or paid search knowledge a plus
• Relevant project management qualifications or experience

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 annually + bonus + 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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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