Senior Director, Relationship Management

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About your Role:

As Senior Director, Relationship Management, you will lead relationship management strategy for a large portfolio of financial institution clients. You will work with executive leaders across Sales, Product, Operations, Solution Consulting, and Client Delivery to strengthen client relationships, support retention, and identify growth opportunities. Your leadership will help align client objectives with enterprise solutions that support long-term business performance.

What you'll do:

• Lead, coach, and develop Relationship Managers and senior client-facing leaders responsible for strategic account management, client retention, revenue growth, and client satisfaction.
• Establish portfolio strategies that support sustainable revenue growth, relationship expansion, retention improvement, and increased wallet share across assigned markets.
• Build executive-level client relationships and serve as a strategic advisor on business challenges, transformation initiatives, and long-term growth opportunities.
• Partner with leaders across Sales, Product, Operations, Solution Consulting, and Client Delivery to align client needs with enterprise solutions and business objectives.
• Oversee complex contract negotiations, renewals, and commercial discussions for high-value or strategically significant client relationships.
• Analyze portfolio performance, industry trends, client health indicators, and financial metrics to identify risks, opportunities, and strategic actions.
• Lead workforce planning, succession planning, talent development, and organizational effectiveness initiatives to strengthen team performance and leadership capability.

Experience you'll need to have:

• 12+ years of experience in relationship management, account management, sales, banking, financial services, or financial technology with responsibility for strategic client leadership, revenue growth, and portfolio management.
• 8+ years of experience managing and developing teams, including performance management, succession planning, talent development, and organizational leadership.
• Experience managing executive-level relationships within financial institutions or related industries and influencing senior decision makers.
• Experience leading complex contract negotiations, renewal strategies, and commercial discussions for large or strategically important client relationships.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving sales, product management, operations, implementation, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze business performance, identify market opportunities, and develop strategic growth plans using portfolio, client health, and financial metrics.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Administration, Finance, Management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Experience leading relationship management organizations in the financial services or financial technology industry.
• Experience managing large, complex client portfolios with significant revenue responsibility.
• Knowledge of financial institution operations, digital banking, payments, core processing, and financial technology solutions.
• Experience using Salesforce or other enterprise customer relationship management platforms.

Travel:

This role require frequent travel (50%+).

Sponsorship:

You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.

Benefits at Fiserv:

• Fuel Your Life program to support your physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being.
• Paid holidays and generous time away policies.
• No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs.
• Living Proof program to recognize your peers’ extra effort with points redeemable for rewards.
• Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture and expand your network.
• Unparalleled professional growth with training, development, and internal mobility opportunities.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one.
• Retirement planning including 401k match and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement program.
• Paid parental and military leave.

This role is not eligible to be performed in Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Maine or Washington.

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• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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