Senior Client Consulting Manager, Managed Services

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics, VC&A is the consulting arm of Visa, and 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.

Visa Managed Services (VMS) is an augmentation of Visa’s consultancy offering, supporting the execution and implementation of recommendations to help scale competitive advantage and operate to succeed in the digital age.

The Consulting Practice within VC&A provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s issuer, acquirers and merchants in Turkey. We apply our 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 team is looking for a Senior Manager to join our VMS consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in Turkey.

The Senior Manager will work towards the team’s goals and assist in the delivery of detailed data gathering, analysis, insight and practical recommendations to enable successful delivery of client projects and will be responsible for selling consulting engagements.

 

Main tasks of the Sr. Manager include:

• Identify opportunities and potential for improvement to help clients in growing their business.

• Manage the delivery of high-quality consultancy engagements in Turkey.

• Help to intensify the business relationships between Visa and its key clients in Turkey.

• Support VCA Southern Europe Lead to achieve the goals for Turkey as well as to support Turkey Country Manager and Turkish Account Executives with subject expertise areas and overall country strategy.

• Manage internal and external project team members.

• Assume responsibility for project budgets.

• Deliver to annual and longer-term consulting sales and delivery targets with margin & P&L ownership.

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Assume account ownership from VMS perspective as the single point of contact with full sales, P&L and margin targets.

• Manage the sales and delivery of onsite VMS and consulting projects.

• Manage teams wrapped around key clients and ensures timely and high-quality execution of projects.

• Identify opportunities and improvements to grow the business of our clients.

• Actively source new work and sell projects to assigned accounts.

• Establish yourself as the trusted advisor of Client executives and Visa Turkey Country Management team.

• Support Country Manager and Account Executives in winning new deals with key clients through actively providing strategic guidance, market & client insights and innovative ideas during client deal pitches

• Liaise, structure, and deliver bundled projects as one Visa with other functions of Visa. 

• Identify process improvements including repeatable and scalable solutions and shares knowledge and expertise with team members as required.

• Provide Thought Leadership knowledge and projects regarding the future of payments and retail banking to our clients and partners.

• Leverage Visa’s innovation, product, and data capabilities to further grow our clients’ business by working together with the sales and product teams as well as the Visa Innovation and Data Sciences team.

• Build and retain Visa Consulting relationships with our key clients.

• Support Visa Consulting and Analytics practice development by developing skills, tools, and innovative methodologies on personal and team level.

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

Qualifications

What we'd like from you: 

· Consulting and consulting sales experience with a top-tier consulting firm

· Expertise in card portfolio management, product management, or lifecycle management

· Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.

· Experience managing complex projects within matrixed organizations.

· Experience in the product marketing lifecycle, including customer profile analysis, initiative development, campaign planning, execution, and post-campaign measurement.

· Implementation experience with products or programs within financial services.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Istanbul, Turkey

Job ID: db9e8f98-c05e-46a4-a32f-09ffb1b22f2e

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-21T11:21:55