Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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The candidate will support the Products Strategy, Planning lead across various initiatives within the Solutions Organization by coordinating across varied stakeholders (product leads & functional verticals) on financial planning, go-to-market strategies, and business reporting. Primary responsibilities of this position are:
• Market research, trend analysis, competitor benchmarking and performance benchmarking for key products
• Support the efforts and go-to-market strategies to ensure clearly defined business and investment plans are in place to drive strategy execution
• Assess how innovative business models can be applied to key new product offering to enhance value
• Lead & develop strategies to compete with alternatives in regions and global
• Work with Global and regional product teams to support use case selection, opportunity assessment, competitor analysis, marketing, etc.
• Support preparation of business case, financial model, value proposition and execution plan for key strategic initiatives
• Support with coordinating budgeting for CEMEA Products and ensure optimal investment of resources to finalize the operating plan for CEMEA Products
• Develop content for client events with product narratives, business updates and client presentations
• Support executive market visits on content briefing
• Work with minimal direction, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to product leadership
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
• BA, BS in Business, Economics, Finance, Strategy or related
• MBA in a business relevant discipline preferred
• Minimum 6 to 8 years of experience, with significant exposure to Management Consulting and/or Strategy work
• Experience in and or significant exposure to the financial services/payments industry preferred
• Ability to communicate with clarity, verbally and in writing compelling messages to senior management and other stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility with various CEMEA functions and Country teams, in order to work in a matrix organization
• Ability to quickly assess an opportunity, using industry experience and fact-based analyses
• Passionate about what you do and fired up about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader
• Ability to learn quickly, deal with complexity/ambiguity and lead change
• Expert level Excel and PowerPoint
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.