Senior Manager, Product Strategy and Planning

About Us

Job Description

• The candidate will support the Products Strategy, Planning lead across various initiatives within the Product & Solutions Organization by coordinating across varied stakeholders (product leads & functional verticals) on financial planning, go-to-market strategies, and business reporting.
• Primary responsibilities of this position are:
• 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
• This is a hybrid position.
• Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of 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
• Global or multi-national business experience strongly preferred
• 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, in order to work in a matrix organization
• Ability to quickly assess an opportunity, using industry experience and fact-based analyses
• Passionate about what you do and fired up about the opportunity to transform payments working for the industry leader
• Strong team player, self-motivated and the ability to work independently at coordinating cross functional activities, obtain buy-in and elevate issues at critical junctures appropriately
• Ability to learn quickly, deal with complexity and lead change
• Aptitude to source relevant information and make timely decisions, tolerance for ambiguity
• Expert level Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communicator, with strong English written and verbal skills
• 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.