Manager – Professional Services Consulting

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest issuers in the United States. We apply deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk.

The VCA team is looking for a Manager to join our consulting practice and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the North America region. The potential candidate will be responsible for delivering and implementing projects and solutions with Merchants & Co-Brand Partners. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Potential engagements could include product development, program launch, customer acquisition, customer / merchant life cycle optimization, retention enhancement, benchmark analysis, profitability enhancement.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Proactively engage with Visa MSS teams in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with merchants and cobrand partners.

• Leads consulting initiatives and contributes to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities with Merchants & Co-Brand Partners.

• Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.

• Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and merchant engagement in their core business

• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., merchants sales and solutions, marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources

• Produce insights, analyses and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the verticals and segments

• Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients

• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice

• Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly energized, detail-oriented individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to clients support the growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization. This is an individual contributor role, reporting into a Client Lead within VCA. 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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 Bachelors 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
• Relevant experience at large management / IT consulting firm or US Financial Institution, delivering payments industry technology solutions and services, including but not limited to money movement, dispute/pre-dispute, instalments, workflow orchestration, core banking, etc. for consumer, small business and commercial clients.
• Experience working in a techno-functional capacity mediating between business functions and technology teams-Client engagement lifecycle management experience – proposal creating, pricing, pitching, SOW writing and execution oversight
• Technology mindset, curious, up to date with digital trends and applications
• Excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with inter-disciplinary groups
• Ability to use both formal and informal influencing skills inside and outside the organization