Senior Manager, Regional Solutions Strategy and Planning

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

The NA Regional Solution Design and Deployment team is responsible for regional-led product initiatives and the overall go-to-market roadmap for new products and solutions in North America. The Sr. Manager, Regional Solutions Strategy and Planning will partner across regional product design, commercialization, deployment, client engagement and client integration functional leads on strategic regional product initiatives.  This role will work across key strategic product lines within Visa such as tokenization, authentication, risk and identity, loyalty, installments, and more.

We are looking for a technically savvy individual who can bring client needs and market demand fully into the product design and development process. You are a seasoned leader with strong business acumen, client focus, and most importantly an interest in continuous learning. This role reports to the VP, Regional Solution Design and Deployment within Visa’s NA Product and Solutions organization.

Day to day, the Sr. Manager will:

• Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions in collaboration with cross-functional partners

• Drive rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations and ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations

• Build strong relationships with product and cross-functional partners

• Develop clear and concise exec-level communications

• Own and maintain team operations including budget and planning

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.

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Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry
• Ability to independently lead and manage complex projects, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-functional projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor as well as attention to detail
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers and external business partners
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a peer with functional and regional leaders within Visa
• Self-starter, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel