Director, Corp Strategy

Company Description

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The Director will be a member of Visa's Strategy Team, which is responsible for corporate strategy development and coordination, enterprise strategic projects and planning, market research and strategic intelligence. He/she will lead projects or major project workstreams related to Visa Inc.'s corporate strategy, business development, or corporate strategic initiatives. The position will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area with some travel expected.

· Lead projects or major project workstreams related to Visa Inc.'s corporate strategy, business development, or corporate initiatives

· Structure and solve business problems, collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on a wide range of business issues. Build out unique, creative and impactful solutions by integrating insights across Visa's many expert functional resources and supporting collaborative solution development

· Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations. Ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations

· Work closely with cross-functional and regional management teams on strategic projects, bringing timely and useful insight and analytical support

· Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional staff and management in a clear, concise and impactful way

· Provide continuous coaching and training to strategy teams

Qualifications

Basic:

· Bachelor's and 10 years of relevant experience most likely found in a management consulting role.

Preferred:

· MBA or relevant graduate degree from top-tier institution or similar academic / professional experience

· Typically requires 12+ years total experience with 3-4+ years of post-graduate experience in management consulting or corporate strategy preferred

· Experience in and/or significant exposure to the payments industry preferred

· Ability to independently lead and manage projects with multiple workstreams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems

· Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels

· Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling

· Experience working with economic theories, strategic and prioritization frameworks, scenarios analysis, and competitive assessments. Knowledge of payment industry revenue drivers a plus.

· 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

· Commitment to continuous training and improvement of employees throughout the corporate strategy function

· 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 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent