Strategy Consulting Manager

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. 

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impacful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants. Drawing on our experstie in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and data solutions to our clients that address unique challenges in wide range of card business such as strategic growth, digital & product strategy and card life cycle management.

We are currently looking for a Consulting Manger in Madrid to support and deliver projects for Visa clients and play a role in developing high impact projects Visa’s Global clients in Europe and Latin America.

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Job Description

What we expect of you, day to day.

The Strategy Consulting Manager will be in charge of managing a team of consultants.
and deliver Payment Strategy projects for Global Clients, primarily in Spain and La􀆟n America, being based in Madrid.

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

This is 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:

• Participate in consulting initiatives and contribute to lead engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients: Issuing Bank Partners, Acquirers and Merchants.
• 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 grow their portfolios and customer engagement in their core business.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to complete 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.
• Manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine insights and
• recommendations for clients.
• Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting
• approach that can be applied across VCA practice.

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 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.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in strategy consulting at a tier-one boutiques or an internal strategy department within a retail or commercial bank.
• Consulting background and mentality. Best-in-class strategy consulting toolkit. Strong
• Financial Services experience, preferably on retail banking, credit risk management,
• acquiring
• Experience leading small teams of consultants and working on-site with clients
• 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.