Customer Implementation Delivery Leader

About this role

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description The Customer Implementation Delivery Leader is responsible for leading a team of Implementation Managers who oversee the onboarding, implementation, and go-live delivery experience for enterprise, gateway, integrated, and strategic partner-acquired customers. This role is accountable for ensuring customers are successfully transitioned from contract execution through implementation, operational readiness, go-live, and handoff to ongoing support.

The leader serves as a strategic partner to Sales, Relationship Management, Operations, Product, Technology, and Support teams to ensure implementation commitments are met, customer expectations are managed, and onboarding processes continue to evolve to support business growth. This role balances people leadership, customer experience, operational excellence, and process improvement while driving consistent execution across the customer implementation lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities Leadership & Team Development - Lead, coach, and develop a team of Implementation Managers responsible for customer onboarding and implementation activities. - Establish performance expectations, development plans, and accountability measures that drive execution excellence and customer satisfaction. - Foster a culture focused on customer experience, operational discipline, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - Support workforce planning, capacity management, and prioritization across implementation portfolios. - Build a high-performing team through ongoing coaching, feedback, recognition, and employee development.

Customer Implementation Delivery - Oversee implementation delivery for enterprise, gateway, integrated, and strategic partner-acquired customer onboarding programs. - Ensure implementation milestones, deliverables, customer commitments, and go-live timelines are consistently achieved. - Provide leadership support for complex implementations, escalations, and high-impact customer onboarding initiatives. - Monitor implementation performance and customer outcomes to identify risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement. - Ensure customers are effectively transitioned from sales engagement through onboarding, implementation, go-live, and ongoing support.

Strategic Partner Channel Support - Ensure a consistent onboarding and implementation experience for customers originating from direct sales, strategic partner, and integrated distribution channels. - Partner with Sales, Relationship Management, and partner-facing teams to support successful onboarding of customers introduced through strategic partner relationships. - Identify opportunities to streamline onboarding processes for partner-acquired customers while maintaining delivery quality and customer experience.

Cross-Functional Partnership - Partner closely with Sales, Relationship Managers, Product, Technology, Operations, Support, and Fulfillment teams to ensure implementation readiness and successful customer onboarding. - Facilitate effective communication and alignment across internal stakeholders and external customer contacts. - Remove obstacles, resolve escalations, and drive accountability across implementation activities. - Support strategic initiatives that impact customer onboarding, implementation, activation, and servicing experiences.

Operational Excellence - Establish and maintain implementation standards, procedures, playbooks, and best practices. - Drive operational efficiency through process improvement, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives. - Utilize performance metrics and customer feedback to improve implementation effectiveness and customer outcomes. - Ensure adherence to operational controls, corporate policies, and regulatory requirements.

Program & Transformation Support - Support business growth through scalable onboarding and implementation processes. - Partner with leaders across Customer Activation & Training (CAT), Operations Enablement, Product, Technology, and Relationship Management to improve customer onboarding experiences and reduce implementation friction. - Contribute to organizational initiatives that enhance onboarding, implementation delivery, customer experience, and operational readiness.

Basic Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience - Typically five or more years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience - Typically five or more years of relevant experience in implementation management, customer onboarding, project management, customer operations, client services, or related disciplines - Previous leadership experience with responsibility for coaching, developing, and managing employees - Experience leading implementation, onboarding, client delivery, customer success, or operational teams - Strong knowledge of implementa

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