Senior Manager, Product Strategy and Planning
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About the Role
Visa is seeking a Senior Manager for Product Strategy and Planning to support the Products Strategy lead across CEMEA. Responsibilities include market research, go-to-market strategies, financial planning, and business reporting.
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Responsibilities
- Support the Products Strategy, Planning lead across various initiatives within the Product & Solutions Organization
- Conduct market research, trend analysis, competitor benchmarking and performance benchmarking for key products
- Support go to market strategies to ensure clearly defined business and investment plans are in place
- Assess how innovative business models can be applied to key new product offerings
- Lead & develop strategies to compete with alternatives in regions and global
- Work with Global and regional product teams to support use case selection, opportunity assessment, competitor analysis, marketing, etc.
- Support preparation of business case, financial model, value proposition and execution plan for key strategic initiatives
- Support with coordinating budgeting for CEMEA Products and ensure optimal investment of resources
- Develop content for client events with product narratives, business updates and client presentations
- Support executive market visits on content briefing
Requirements
- 8 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
- BA, BS in Business, Economics, Finance or Strategy
- Minimum 6 to 8 years of experience, with significant exposure to Management Consulting & Strategy work
- Experience in and or significant exposure to the financial services/payments industry required
- Superior analytical and financial analysis skills
- Expert level Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent communicator, with strong English written and verbal skills
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About Us
- Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.
Job Description
- Support the Products Strategy, Planning lead across various initiatives within the Product & Solutions Organization by coordinating across varied stakeholders on financial planning, go to market strategies, and business reporting.
- Market research, trend analysis, competitor benchmarking and performance benchmarking for key products
- Support the efforts and go to market strategies to ensure clearly defined business and investment plans are in place to drive strategy execution
- Assess how innovative business models can be applied to key new product offering to enhance value
- Lead & develop strategies to compete with alternatives in regions and global
- Work with Global and regional product teams to support use case selection, opportunity assessment, competitor analysis, marketing, etc.
- Support preparation of business case, financial model, value proposition and execution plan for key strategic initiatives
- Support with coordinating budgeting for CEMEA Products and ensure optimal investment of resources to finalize the operating plan for CEMEA Products
- Develop content for client events with product narratives, business updates and client presentations
- Support executive market visits on content briefing
- Work with minimal direction, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact based recommendations to product leadership
Qualifications
- 8 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
- BA, BS in Business, Economics, Finance or Strategy
- MBA in a business relevant discipline preferred
- Minimum 6 to 8 years of experience, with significant exposure to Management Consulting & Strategy work
- Experience in and or significant exposure to the financial services/payments industry required
- Superior analytical and financial analysis skills
- Strategic thinking, strong organization skills, ability to summarize findings from data, curiosity to deep dive on root cause of trends
- Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate, verbally and in writing, compelling messages to senior managers and other stakeholders
- Self confident and hands on, with the ability to operate in a fast paced and constantly changing work environment
- Excellent problem solving skills with a strong focus on clients
- Ability to rally corporate resources and functional experts to drive business objectives
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility with various CEMEA functions and Country teams
Workplace
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
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