About Temenos
Temenos powers a world of banking that creates opportunities for billions of people and businesses everywhere. We have been doing this for over 30 years through the pioneering spirit of our Temenosians who are passionate about making banking better, together.
We serve over 3000 clients from the largest to challengers and community banks in 150+ countries. We collaborate with clients to build new banking services and state-of-the-art customer experiences on our open banking platform, helping them operate more sustainably.
At Temenos, we have an open-minded and inclusive culture, where everyone has the power to create their own destiny and make a positive contribution to the world of banking and society.
VALUES
Care About Transforming The Banking Landscape.
Commit to being part of an exciting culture and product evolving within the financial industry.
Collaborate effectively and proactively with teams within or outside Temenos.
Challenge yourself to be ambitious and achieve your individual as well as the company targets.
THE ROLE
We are seeking a Strategy Director Execution & Governance reporting to the Head of Strategy, to drive enterprise-wide execution of strategic priorities. This role sits within the Strategy function and ensures the company's strategy translates into clear milestones, cross-functional ownership, timely decisions, and measurable delivery.
You will work closely with C-level stakeholders and senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Delivery, Customer Success, Finance, and Regions to align timelines, manage interdependencies, and escalate risks early. This role is ideal for a leader who combines strategic context with strong program governance, stakeholder management, and the ability to push through ambiguity and challenges to keep critical initiatives on track.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive execution of enterprise priorities
- Translate strategic goals into structured execution plans with clear scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Establish and run cadenced execution rhythms to ensure progress and accountability.
- Ensure delivery stays aligned to strategy and commitments
- Run governance and steer decisions
- Own governance across specific critical strategic initiatives
- Create clarity on decision rights and support timely decisions by elevating trade-offs and options for senior leadership
- Proactively surface misalignments and remove blockers
- Implement a rigorous approach to risk identification, mitigation, and escalation (schedule, scope, budget, quality, resourcing, reputational risk).
- Maintain integrated views of progress across streams, highlighting slippage early and driving corrective actions.
- Ensure high-quality execution reporting that is transparent, concise, and decision-oriented.
- Stakeholder management at C-level
- Act as a key partner to senior leadershipsupporting preparation for ExCo/Board-level discussions when required.
- Communicate complex progress and issues simply, with strong narratives and so what implications.
- Maintain executive-grade materials (briefs, steering packs, milestones, dashboards).
What Success Looks Like (outcomes)
- Strategic initiatives are delivered on time, with clear ownership and minimal churn.
- Execution priorities are aligned across functions and regions; silo friction decreases.
- Risks are escalated early and decisions happen faster.
- Leadership has a clear line of sight into progress, trade-offs, and required interventions.
- Strategy is experienced as real because it visibly drives outcomes.
Experience & Qualifications
- 15 years of experience in transformation, strategy execution, PMO / program governance, or operating model delivery within banking and/or enterprise technology.
- Demonstrated track record driving cross-functional transformation in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Strong understanding of how banking software businesses operate (product/platform, delivery, GTM, client execution).
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and C-level executives, managing competing priorities and conflicts.
- Experience in top-tier consulting is valued, but not required (e.g., strategy consulting, transformation office, COO function, product/portfolio governance).
- Education: Undergraduate degree required; advanced degree (MBA / Masters) beneficial.
Core Skills
- Execution governance: program structure, milestones, steering, dependency management, RAID logs.
- Timeline management: ability to drive delivery discipline under pressure and ambiguity.
- Strategic alignment: translate strategy into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
- Influence and conflict resolution: able to challenge constructively, broker alignment, and drive closure.
- Executive communication: crisp narratives, decision memos, board/ExCo-ready materials.
- Strong analytical capability; ability to synthesize data into clear actions and priorities.
- Strong organizational judgment, integrity, and bias for action.
- Tools: PowerPoint (executive storytelling), Excel / basic modeling, structured reporting; familiarity with common planning / tracking tools (Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, etc.) a plus.
KEY ATTRIBUTES
- High ownership and resilience; thrives in fast-moving environments.
- Ability to operate independently and drive outcomes without formal authority.
- Comfortable being direct, escalating when needed, and holding stakeholders accountable.
- Strong cross-cultural collaboration; global mindset.
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SOME OF OUR BENEFITS Include
- Maternity leave: Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month
- Civil Partnership: 1 week of paid leave if you're getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex/civil partnership
- Family care: 4 weeks of paid family care leave
- Recharge days: 4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally needed to recharge
- Study leaves: 2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal development
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