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Stephanie Turner

Lewes,East Sussex

Summary

Motivated portfolio and project manager with strong stakeholder management experience. Works well under pressure to tight timescales in an agile environment. Recognised for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction. Resourceful and well-organised with an excellent leadership and team-building record.

Overview

38
38
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Project Manager

American Express
Brighton, Brighton and Hove
01.2025 - Current

Delivered successful project outcomes by directing team activities and facilitating communication throughout the migration of the due diligence process from Second line of defence to First line of defence.

Created and led contract renewal and extension due diligence process. Tracked project progress diligently, ensuring adherence to set deadlines.

Designed project presentations and reports for executive teams.

Coordinated on site visit programme for Thailand prospects which will result in an uplift in merchant coverage from 30% to 90% in a key location.

Project Manager

International Operational Excellence
Brighton, Brighton and Hove
04.2024 - 12.2024

Led cross functional teams through restart of Phase 3 GL and I project.

Developed comprehensive project plans for successful execution and delivery Of PRSA refreshes, quarterly testing and CRA process.

Facilitated smooth transitions between NAS PRSAs handover for seamless progression.

Project manager

Acquirer Capability Delivery
Burgess Hill, West Sussex
06.2023 - 12.2023

Led Envisioning Architecture bi weekly leadership meeting - acted as single point of contact for stakeholders to facilitate informed leadership decision-making

Managed scope content, led regular stakeholder status calls for Canada drive to digital project. Ensured project delivers forecasted revenue in 2024.

Drafted accurate bi weekly PMO management reports to illustrate project: status, timelines and progress

Managed relationships with cross-functional teams to complete the Acquirer Capability Framework

Sabbatical

Self employed
01.2023 - 05.2023

Project manager

GMNS
07.2022 - 12.2022

Led Global standardisation for Merchant Net, Gross and Multi-currency statements, aligning with key stakeholders.

Drove completion of Global Merchant Net, Gross and Multi-currency statement translations, collaborating with key stakeholders and local translation companies.

Managed the vendor payment process within budget and schedule.

Project Manager

American Express
Brighton
11.2021 - 06.2022

Created Executive tracking and status reporting in the Partner Services Team for: 5MLD, SCA,EBA,POQ,RBST, Debit Compliance work streams.

Drove completion of the work streams across 12 key Partners collaborating across key stakeholders.

Represented the Partner Services Team on the Risk Committee and closed outstanding risks.

Sabbatical

Self Employed
01.2020 - 10.2021

Travelling curtailed by covid

Portfolio Manager

American Express
Brighton
11.2013 - 12.2019

Successfully delivered International GMDL programme enabling technical parity with existing Global functionality.

Delivered Brexit programme for the Merchant Business within schedule and budget.

Created tracking and dashboard for KPI reporting within the Merchant business.

Led India Merchant GST programme for the Business. Provided strategic thought leadership to create a framework for success.

Global Data Quality Consultant

American Express
Brighton
07.2008 - 10.2013

Led International team that built an automated monthly data cleansing tool utilising external vendor data. Delivered regularly refreshed merchant data to marketing team to drive improvement benefits and digital marketing campaigns.

Responsible for the measuring, remediating and governance of non-financial data globally to enhance competitive advantage, gain operational efficiency and drive business value.

Developed scorecards to measure new account data quality and drove re-engineering saves of $250,000 in process improvement.

Led final release of global tool platform development including: point of arrival strategy, biweekly calls with a technical team and regular status updates the steering committee and wider team.

Affiliation Process Manager

American Express
Brighton
03.2004 - 06.2008

Won outstanding performance awards at a team and individual level plus a gold award for improved electronic point of sale terminal initialisation rate.

Awarded customer quality award in recognition of applying quality and six Sigma methodology to solve business issues in a significant and sustainable way.

Created and implemented a European merchant services merchant on boarding and electronic point of sale terminal initialisation scorecard using six Sigma process.

Local Market Manager

American Express
Brighton
09.2002 - 02.2004

Enabled the technical point-of-sale electronic terminal setup of key strategic merchants including: transport for London, Tesco, Vodafone and octopus travel

Developed and implemented a third-party and vendor relationship program. Built and leveraged relationships with third parties and vendors to ensure that American Express acceptance was priority.

Authorisations Manager

American Express
Brighton
06.2000 - 08.2002

Team leader and membership of leadership team responsible for managing the UK authorisations call centre.

Developed a relationship with credit and risk departments and implemented process to improve credit and waste decisioning times.

Transformed the UK authorisation business continuity process by implementing a process with the Middle East Centre.

Sabbatical

Self employed
01.2000 - 05.2000

Sales and Account Manager

Barclays Merchant Services
Northampton
06.1988 - 12.1999

Won Top 10 Sales Manager and Sales Team awards.

Developed and drove profitable business across a portfolio of key Barclaycard merchant accounts.

Implemented and managed sales and marketing initiatives across my portfolio.

Drove reengineering benefits by eliminating paper processing.

Education

GCSE -

Conyers School

A-Levels -

Conyers School
Yarm

Skills

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Banking Conversion Course

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

American Express
01.2025 - Current

Project Manager

International Operational Excellence
04.2024 - 12.2024

Project manager

Acquirer Capability Delivery
06.2023 - 12.2023

Sabbatical

Self employed
01.2023 - 05.2023

Project manager

GMNS
07.2022 - 12.2022

Project Manager

American Express
11.2021 - 06.2022

Sabbatical

Self Employed
01.2020 - 10.2021

Portfolio Manager

American Express
11.2013 - 12.2019

Global Data Quality Consultant

American Express
07.2008 - 10.2013

Affiliation Process Manager

American Express
03.2004 - 06.2008

Local Market Manager

American Express
09.2002 - 02.2004

Authorisations Manager

American Express
06.2000 - 08.2002

Sabbatical

Self employed
01.2000 - 05.2000

Sales and Account Manager

Barclays Merchant Services
06.1988 - 12.1999

GCSE -

Conyers School

A-Levels -

Conyers School
Stephanie Turner