Team Summary
Visas Asia Pacific Corporate Strategy team based in Singapore plays a key role in shaping Visas longterm strategy in the region and solving for regional and countryspecific opportunities and challenges in partnership with executives and business leaders across Visas organization. Recent initiatives have addressed topics such as market strategy product strategy multiyear planning and organic / inorganic growth opportunities across the region. The team is also responsible for developing thought leadership on emerging trends in payments industry.
What a Senior Manager in Corporate Strategy does at Visa:
The Senior Manager role in the Asia Pacific (AP) Corporate Strategy Team plays a key role in supporting delivery of key strategic initiatives across the region. The individual will support Visas businesses across functions and geographies in assessing multifaceted implications for Visa of trends/developments and developing strategic recommendations in alignment with the regional and global priorities. This role will also be monitoring of competitive developments across the region/globally.
In this role you are expected to:
- Leads workstreams within AP strategy projects and engagements
- Takes a more strategic holistic approach to addressing specific problem statements or components of a project and that the approach should be aligned with overall project objectives
- For owned workstreams responsible for identifying the problem statement structuring analytical approach (key questions to be addressed and analysis & research required to answer those questions)
- Structures and executes own workstream with modest upfront and periodic direction / input from manager
- Effectively and highly efficiently manages own time as well as workplans for own workstream; able to sync up timelines / sequencing with rest of the project team
- With moderate support of manager drafts storylines structures documents and creates endtoend presentations on strategic recommendations
- Being a sought after thought leader owner on select business topics within larger / complex crossfunctional projects
- Able to assess multifaceted implications for Visa of trends and developments and makes sound recommendations; ensures strategic and financial soundness and alignment for any recommendations
- Communicates and presents recommendations and supporting rationale to midtosenior management in a clear concise and impactful way
- Able to independently manage meetings with working team and cross functional peer
- Leads various adhoc internal deliverables as assigned (e.g. monitoring of payment trends sharing data / insights with other teams within Visa etc.)
Why this is important to Visa:
The Corporate Strategy Senior Manager is a key player in the Visa Asia Pacific Corporate Strategy team helping the region define and achieve its nearterm and longterm strategic priorities. The Manager will work as part of the core team helping drive critical qualitative and quantitative analysis to support the formulation of our strategy. Its a high visibility and high responsibility role given the strategic nature of teams work in the region.
Qualifications :
What you will need for this role:
We are looking for an individual with a structured mindset curiosity about the payments industry is resultsdriven and client focused. As an ideal candidate you should have:
Preferred Qualifications
- 10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
- 8 to10 years of experience in management consulting or internal strategy role in a global company.
- Experience in the payments industry highly preferred.
- Selfstarter team oriented collaborative with ability to participate in complex crossenterprise projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to develop content independently and prioritize deliverables and projects to meet timelines efficiently and ability to adapt to changes in priorities quickly. Ability to independently lead workstreams within large and complex projects or smaller scale projects.
- Superior analytical and problemsolving skills and analytical rigor attention to detail and ability to structure and analyze sophisticated financial modeling.
- Strong strategic acumen with demonstrated intellectual curiosity.
- Excellent presentation skills including strong oral and writing capabilities.
- Complete team player able to work across cultures upholds and promotes highest ethical standards and mutual respect in the workplace.
- Strong project management skills able to plan for timelines and milestones for crossfunctional teams. Strong interpersonal and execution skills
- Professional confident with the ability to maintain good communication with wide internal and external audiences.
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime