The PaymentsInitiativesManager is an essential role for the establishment and progression ofgrowth initiativesfor the Payments team and for Huntington Bank overall.

This role will be actively involved in leadinginitiatives that deliver on payments growth within this fast growing revenue segment of Huntington Bank. Thisincludes focusing onpayments product innovation, fee income growthas well as driving strategically important initiatives such asAI adoption strategiesorcross-functionalbusiness transformation opportunities across paymentsandbanksegments. The Payments Initiatives Manager willclosely workwith productmanagers, sales and service teams and key functional leaders including corporate strategy, technology, operations, finance, risk, and human resources. Examples of the work includeassessing and building business cases for new payments products, partnering with corporate strategy/ product teams onenterprise-wide AI adoption strategies,newpartnershipsanddesigning implementing newoperating models. Toachieve these outcomes, this role willinterfacedirectly with senior leadership(including Executive Team members)as well assenior management withinother businessesfunctionsThis role reports toa member of the Enterprise Payments leadership team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leading the execution of primary and secondary research, performing analytics, benchmarking current capabilities and conducting competitor analysis to develop fact-base to support setting the direction for enterprise payments strategy.

• Leading the development and refinement of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)throughout Payments.

• Responsible for the formation, impact sizing and execution of strategic engagements across Enterprise Payments and in partnership with other divisions and functions within Huntington.

• Coordinates and takes accountability for developing strategic presentations to senior management, working cross-functionally to determine and develop appropriate content, messaging and presentation.

• Leadsdefining, prioritizing, and managing various initiatives across payments.

• Leads ad-hoc strategic market analysis.

• Leads and performs other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree

• 2 years of direct experience in strategic management consulting, payments or technology product strategy is strongly preferred having achieved a leading role

• Executive-level presence

• Ability to navigate and work cross-functionally and with all levels within an organization

• Ability to work and manage with ambiguity

• Strong research skills and desire to expand knowledge

• Ability to synthesize analysis and research into practical strategic insights and recommendations (critical thinking and assessment)

• Ability to manage individuals and complex engagements in a matrixed model

• Supervisory or management experience​

• Demonstrated ability to work with ambiguity, performcomplex strategic analysisand proven ability to translate strategy into execution with responsibility for implementation.

• Strong analytical skillsProject management skills

• Team player

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Undergraduate degree from top tier institution Graduate degree is preferred but not required.

• 7+ years experience inmanagement consulting, financial services, payments and/or software technologyis preferred.

• 5+ years of experience including a successful track record of developing business strategy, financial modeling and analysis, competitive analysis, and strategic business planning