Strategy Manager, Client Consulting

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

Visa CEMEA, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Strategy Consulting Manager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to execute high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the region.

Responsible for delivering and implementing projects and solutions with KSA Financial Institutions / Issuing Banks who have a global footprint, the role will be in charge to work alongside Visa’s clients on strategic initiatives that promote sustainable and profitable growth.

What we expect of you, day to day:

The Strategy Consulting Manager will be in charge of leading a team of consultants and deliver Payment Strategy projects for KSA Clients. This is a hybrid role and client-facing in nature, that will be required to frequently visit and spend the majority of the work hours with designated clients, within and beyond the projects.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Participate in consulting initiatives and contribute to lead engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients: Issuing Bank Partners, Acquirers, and Merchants.
2. Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
3. Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients grow their portfolios and customer engagement in their core business.
4. Partner with peers in other functional areas (marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.
5. 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.
6. Manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine insights and recommendations for clients.
7. Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice.

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 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.

1. 1-3 years of experience in Strategy Consulting on the following tier-one boutiques or in an internal Strategy department within a retail or Commercial Bank.
2. Consulting background and mindset. Best-in-class strategy consulting toolkit.
3. Strong Financial Services experience, preferably on retail banking, credit risk management, acquiring.
4. Experience managing small teams of consultants and working on-site with clients.
5. Project experience in a digital and technology-driven environment.

Additional Information

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.