Sr. Manager, NA Strategy

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The North America Strategy team is responsible for business strategy development, coordination, and planning for the North America region. The strategy team works closely with product, functional and organizational leaders for the North America region. NA is Visa’s largest region and faces some of the most complex and interesting challenges in the payments industry today. Many of the team’s projects involve working on some of the most pressing business and strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North American business.

Specifically this person will:

• Work on projects or major project workstreams related to Visa Inc.'s North America strategy, business development, or North America 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.

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.

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
• Typically requires 3-5 years’ experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment
banking or a similar role
• An advanced degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, PhD) is not strictly required but is a strong plus
• Experience in the payments or financial services industry is ideal, but not a strict requirement
• Ability to independently work on projects with multiple workstreams, with 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 and
spreadsheet skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities

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