Senior Consulting Manager

Visa; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is seeking a Senior Client Consulting Manager to lead high-impact client engagements end-to-end, translating business questions into data-driven strategies and actionable recommendations. As part of Visa Consulting and Analytics, you will partner with peers across marketing, products, risk, and innovation, delivering insights and scalable solutions while mentoring teams.

This hybrid role requires leading multiple workstreams and guiding timelines from the

Qualifications

• 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.
• Demonstrated leadership, managerial and collaboration capabilities, particularly with those who are not direct reports as may be found in a matrixed organization.
• Executive presence including excellent communication and presentations skills, written and verbal, and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.

Responsibilities

• 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 and across global regional teams to execute projects leveraging Visa 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.

Skills

Client management

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive presence

Job description

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you’ll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

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.

We are seeking a Senior Client Consulting Manager to lead high-impact client engagements end-to-end, translating business questions into data-driven strategies and actionable recommendations.

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.

Qualifications

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

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.