MBA Intern- Merchant Sales & Acquiring, Travel Vertical Team

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

This MBA Intern role will be part of the North America (NA) Merchant Strategy and Business Planning team, which is responsible for vertical-level strategy development and coordination, support and execution of key strategic initiatives, market research and strategic intelligence, as well as operational management and business planning. This position will also work directly with Account Executives on client-specific business development projects and sales efforts. This person will work closely with key stakeholders, both internal and external to the group, and will be responsible for supporting key initiatives and projects.

Key Functions and Day-to-Day Tasks May Include:

• Building strong relationships with NA Merchant AE leaders and influencing decisions at the senior level.
• Understanding client needs and merchant trends, anticipating opportunities and challenges, collecting and synthesizing AE feedback and recommending active measures to support group and vertical level targets.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Analytics, Global Technology, Pricing, Corporate Strategy, Product and Finance.
• Collaborating with global and regional merchant strategy and solutions teams to share best practices, and leverage product and analytic resources to drive efficiency and scalable results.
• Supporting NA Merchants vertical strategies, business development, or key initiatives- helping manage the day to day project and team activities to meet project goals and timelines.
• Supporting NA Merchants annual planning activities like end of year reporting, budgeting, and goal setting. Directly supporting business development activities for a set of clients in partnership with Account Executives.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Students pursuing a MBA Degree with a graduation date between December 2023 - August 2024
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications, and communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4-6 years of business experience, with a strong track record of client service, strategic development and execution.
• Experience at in management consultancy and experience operating in an in-house corporate and group strategy role, coupled with managing operations of a function or business unit.
• Knowledge of payment industry products, services and technologies, eCommerce, or mobile technology.
• Experience in client-facing roles, having led senior client discussions and solutioning engagements with multiple key stakeholders, ideally including financial institutions (issuers or acquirers), large retailers and merchants, PSPs, technology providers, etc.
• A proven track record of delivering high impact results working on projects in the areas of strategy, growth initiatives and new market, segment, business strategies.
• Ability to structure and manage complex cross-enterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders.
• The ability to translate analytics, research, client and consumer needs into actionable plans and deliverables.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, superior problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Creativity and resourcefulness to overcome unexpected roadblocks.
• An ability to challenge preconceived attitudes and behaviors and shape future thinking.
• Strong organizational skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills are required
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

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