Consulting Senior Manager, VCA

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.

What it's all about:  

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, digital marketing and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

As a Senior Manager, you will work within the Central European Consulting team, leading and delivering projects for our clients in the Netherlands. You will work towards the team’s goals and own the delivery of detailed data gathering, analysis, insight generation as well as the formulation of strategic and practical recommendations to enable the successful delivery of client projects.

Furthermore, you are also responsible for delivering internal projects, analysis and reports.

Specific Responsibilities include: 

· Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients.

· Engage in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of analytic work.

· Develop analytical frameworks, approaches, solutions and data-led strategies that address impactful opportunities and challenges.

· Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, products, 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 mentorship for client priorities.

· Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, standard methodology documents, and consulting approaches that can be applied across VCA practices.

· Lead team to provide knowledge sharing, coaching and training as well as across functional teams and or regions in the role as an analytics subject matter expert.

· Oversee multiple workstreams + project delivery, meeting objectives and timelines.

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 (Tuesday - Thursday), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

What we'd like from you: 

• Passionate, self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.
• Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, and marketing initiatives.
• Excellent client relationship management skills and ability to develop a credible point of view on a variety of industry topics, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Executive presence including excellent communication and presentations skills, written and verbal, and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.
• Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization.
• Experience in several key payments business areas, such as portfolio management, marketing, product management, operations, risk management, for both credit and debit cards.
• Experience using financial indicators to measure business performance with a significant focus on impacting return on investment.
• Ideal candidate will have payments and consulting experience
• Fluent in both English and Dutch languages

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.