Consulting Manager

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Sales and Business Development

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The Manager will support the Visa Consulting & Analytics team to deliver high impact projects to our clients in Saudi Arabia and GCC region. We are looking for motivated individuals who will provide analysis to shape the insights we deliver to clients, support consulting projects delivery and participate in growing the practice.

Responsibilities include:

  • Conduct data analysis using Visa and external data to understand client needs across the focus markets and identify opportunities for consulting assignments with clients across their assigned region.
  • Provide support in developing country plans for consulting activity with clients, securing funds from partnership agreements to support consulting projects where such agreements exist
  • Work closely with the engagement team, manager and client representative to deliver the projects
  • Run project work stream on a day-to-day basis, including conducting research and data analysis and synthesizing them to develop insights and recommendations
  • Assume full project management responsibility for the assigned project and be the primary liaison with the client and internal stakeholders for project updates
  • Support or lead on developing hypotheses, contribute to conclusions and assist other senior team members in presenting back to the client
  • Support or lead on project economics and to manage risk and quality of the project deliverables
  • Provide client project implementation support
  • Help develop and deliver client training programs and impart best practices knowledge sharing to Visa clients
  • Support knowledge sharing with consulting teams in other regions to incorporate best practice, source analytical or other solutions to bring global perspective to local clients
  • Support the team in developing and bringing the Visa Consulting & Analytics proposition in the market
  • Manage the preparation of proposals for new client work
  • Contribute to the development of Visa Consulting & Analytics thought leadership materials
  • Support business development initiatives by assisting in developing our product offerings, and marketing to external and internal clients

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience applying solutions to business problems in relevant fields such as analytics, business consulting, or other data-driven functions
• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operational
Research, Computer Science, Economics, etc.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills
• Exceptional analytical skills, with the ability to process and summarize large amounts of data into key strategic insights
• Strong team player with a willingness to collaborate across levels and functional experts both internal to Visa and with the client
• Experienced project management skills, both from an individual perspective but also with respect to managing team and client expectations and deliverables.
• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt
• A background in payments, financial institutions, exposure to risk management, portfolio management, corporate payments, retail and merchant business or digital projects is a plus
• An affinity for payments technology and its future
• Willingness to travel domestic and international assignments
• Fluency in English. Fluency in Arabic is a plus

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.
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