Department Manager - Student Loans - Full-time

Manages and is responsible for the overall activities of the Discover Student Loans department, overseeing approximately 60-200 FTEs.Manages professional employees and/or supervisors. Builds a strong team. Develops other to their full potential. Empowers and motivates others. Recognizes when there are obstacles preventing others from achieving their goals and readily intervenes and finds resourceful ways to remove them.Leverages external relationships and insight.Receives guidance from senior managers and directors on departmental issues. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment.Wide latitude for decision making. Gathers information, consults those who need to be involved, and puts decisions into action. Coaches employees in decision making by thinking through scenarios and decision criteria before taking appropriate action. Communicates decisions to stakeholders within ones team in a timely manner. Develops solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation. Ensures solutions are consistent with organizations objectives.Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation and professional speaking skills. Excellent influencing skills/ability

Qualifications

Manages professional employees and/or supervisors. Builds a strong team. Develops other to their full potential. Empowers and motivates others.
Recognizes when there are obstacles preventing others from achieving their goals and readily intervenes and finds resourceful ways to remove them.
Leverages external relationships and insight
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