Strategy Manager, Global Cross-border

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.

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Job Description

Job Description

The Global Cross-border team is responsible for defining the cross-border business strategy and managing execution for Visa across all regions, working closely with market, functional and other cross-border leaders around the world.  The cross-border business faces some of the most complex and interesting challenges for the company, touching all areas of the business, including product, pricing, legal, regulatory, marketing, client management and partnership development.  This senior analyst role will partner across each of these areas, and will be part of a team responsible for developing and executing actionable global strategies to grow the business, with a particular focus on partnership development and deal structuring, client engagement and consulting, data-centric asset and VAS deployment, and business performance measurement and optimization.  The role will sit within the global cross-border hub.

Key responsibilities of the team include:

• Evolve and manage strategic framework for evaluating and executing client engagement and business development activities with  underpenetrated or at-risk cross-border rich industry and customer segments

• Support regional and functional teams in enhancing and optimizing go-to-market approaches to drive client cross-border focus at scale through marketing, CVP, loyalty and business insights engagements

• Design programmatic, corridor-specific strategies to drive consumer preference at scale in strategically important markets

• Update and enhance Visa's operational model for end-to-end cross-border-rich deal flows, including opportunity prioritization, pipeline mgmt, deal structuring, governance and performance tracking

• Create and manage detailed strategic workstream plans, leading multi-functional teams across markets from hypothesis development, validation, testing and execution stages

• Manage the global cross-border organization's operations function, including OKR tracking, meetings and events, and presentations

• Communicate recommendations to team members and functional peers in a clear, concise and impactful way, including through executive ready presentations and briefing memos

• Continuously review the market, identify trends and forecast opportunities to drive Visa’s growth, including fact-based, quantitative analysis and financial rigor and alignment for any recommendations

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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.

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at
least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA,
JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more
years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Previous experience in consulting, product management, client management,
payments or financial services industry preferred
• Highly motivated self-starter with project management experience and
meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to understand and communicate technical and often-times complex
solutions to in