Senior Manager, Product Strategy and Planning

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

The candidate will support the Products Strategy, Planning lead across various initiatives within the Product & Solutions Organization by coordinating across varied stakeholders (product leads & functional verticals) on financial planning, go-to-market strategies, and business reporting. Primary responsibilities of this position are:

• Market research, trend analysis, competitor benchmarking and performance benchmarking for key products
• Support the efforts and go-to-market strategies to ensure clearly defined business and investment plans are in place to drive strategy execution
• Assess how innovative business models can be applied to key new product offering to enhance value
•  Lead & develop strategies to compete with alternatives in regions and global
• Work with Global and regional product teams to support use case selection, opportunity assessment, competitor analysis, marketing, etc.
• Support preparation of business case, financial model, value proposition and execution plan for key strategic initiatives
• Support with coordinating budgeting for CEMEA Products and ensure optimal investment of resources to finalize the operating plan for CEMEA Products
• Develop content for client events with product narratives, business updates and client presentations
• Support executive market visits on content briefing
• Work with minimal direction, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to product leadership

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 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

BA,BS in Business, Economics, Finance or Strategy
MBA in a business relevant discipline preferred
Minimum 6 to 8 years of experience, with significant exposure to Management Consulting & Strategy work
Experience in and or significant exposure to the financial services/payments industry required
Global or multi-national business experience strongly preferred
Superior analytical and financial analysis skills
Strategic thinking, strong organization skills, ability to summarize findings from data, curiosity to deep dive on root cause of trends
Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate, verbally and in writing, compelling messages to senior managers and other stakeholders
Self-confident and hands-on, with the ability to operate in a fast paced and constantly changing work environment
Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong focus on clients
Ability to rally corporate resources and functional experts to drive business objectives
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility with various CEMEA functions and Country teams, in order to work in a matrix organization
Ability to quickly assess an opportunity, using industry experience and fact-based analyses

Passionate about what you do and fired up about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader
Strong team player, self-motivated and the ability to work independently at coordinating cross functional activities, obtain buy-in and elevate issues at critical junctures appropriately
Ability to learn quickly, deal with complexity and lead change
Aptitude to source relevant information and make timely decisions, tolerance for ambiguity
Expert level Excel and PowerPoint
Excellent communicator, with strong English written and verbal skills

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.