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Advancing the Olympic Spirit Sport unites people, communities and nations. It enriches people’s lives and creates economic development opportunities. In today’s world, where brand and trust mean so much, the Olympic Games reflect those equities found at Visa – worldwide acceptance, reliability, … read moreversatility and leadership. Sponsoring the Olympic Games makes good business sense for Visa and our clients. Impacting Lives Sponsorships, like Visa’s commitment and support to the Olympic Movement, National Olympic Committees and national teams, have helped ensure the continued success of the Olympic Games. Visa has provided direct economic support to stage the Games themselves and provided untold direct support to thousands of Olympic athletes through support of National Olympic Committees. Additionally, Visa supports Olympic teams and individual athletes through its global Team Visa program, providing financial support, life-skills training and valuable marketing exposure in pursuit of their Olympic Dreams. Building Business, Uniting the World Financial institutions and merchants benefit greatly from Visa’s Olympic Games marketing platform, which they use to connect with cardholders on a level that goes beyond commerce. During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, 573 financial institutions and 491 merchant partners around the world participated directly in Visa Olympic Games promotional programs. Visa was the first sponsor to mount destination marketing programs linked to an Olympic Games host city. For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Visa partnered with Tourism Vancouver and Tourism Whistler to promote both domestic and international travel to these beautiful destinations. Payments at the Games At every Olympic Games, Visa is responsible for creating and managing the entire payment system infrastructure across all Olympic venues, including hundreds of point-of-sale acceptance devices and a dedicated ATM network at competition and non-competition venues, including the Main Press Centre, the International Broadcast Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village. As a service to its cardholders at the Olympic Games, Visa provides multilingual emergency services and general assistance for cardholders.
Job Description
Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCA’s core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.
Within VCA exists VCA Implementation Services (VIS), a hands-on execution partner, implementing, operating, and optimizing Visa products in client environments to accelerate activation, portfolio growth, risk control, and data-driven performance.
The Visa Implementation Services (VIS) Consulting Director will be a key member of the Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) organization, working across Southern Eastern Africa and Western Central Africa and will contribute to the commercial traction, client delivery, business development, product development and thought leadership with the VIS practice areas. The role will also deliver subject matter expertise and consulting support to VISA’s key clients across the subregions. The main objective of the role is to define and execute against VIS’s mandate, further deepening client relationships and optimizing client performance
Principal Responsibilities/Key Results Area
Lead and/or serve as a subject matter expert on consulting engagements across practice areas (portfolio, digital, risk) including but not limited to the following,
Using VISA and external data to analyze client needs across the focus markets and identify opportunities for VIS assignments with VISA’s key clients
Lead, Support and contribute to sales pitches for VIS
Lead and contribute to internal problem-solving sessions
Prepare for, and participate in, client discussions
Lead project deliveries in both coordination and delivery role
Standup and manage large VCA programs for Pan African clients focused on VIS workstreams
Work closely with other VISA groups, including Products, BD, Risk, Marketing, Digital Solutions, etc., to ensure a seamless Consulting experience
Develop VIS’s offering and tailored solutions in line with client needs by proactively identifying collaboration opportunities and developing integrated go-to-market strategies in partnership with internal stakeholders (e.g., Value-Added Services, Client Services, etc.) to drive unified business objective
Collaborate with VCA colleagues, Visa account executives and other Visa functions to define focus areas, and cultivate and manage a pipeline of engagement opportunities
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
15+ years of experience in consulting and implementation support with Financial institutes, merchants, and/or government
depth understanding of card operations and portfolio management
Combination of regional and global experience is also desired
Superior project management skills. Fluent communicator
Diplomatic skills to work in a multi-functional environment and ability to extract desired outcomes.
Comfortable interacting with and presenting to senior management of clients and VISA
Highly analytical with advanced PowerPoint skills and Excel skills
Results driven, flexible and both internally and externally customer focused
Able to travel frequently and work on client site
Self-motivated and able to use own initiative with limited direction
Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with inter-disciplinary groups
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