Consulting Sr Manager - Digital Practice

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Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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Job Description
The Consultant Senior Manager will play a crucial role in promoting the growth and influence of Digital and Innovation Advisory in the South Cone region (SoCo). This role involves supporting Visa partners in formulating their digital evolution strategy, progressing on their digital roadmap journey, and fostering an environment of consistent innovation. To accomplish this, the ideal candidate will lead consultative transformative engagements through the entire cycle, from comprehending the client’s digital maturity to delivering digital-native experiences and facilitating the necessary change management.
This role will also contribute to driving Visa’s digital agenda in collaboration with issuers, acquirers, merchants, Fintechs, and other key participants within the ecosystem as well as designing and launching the next-generation of advisory approaches and solutions.

Specific scope of work and responsibilities includes:

• Support the execution of VCA’s Digital strategy across SoCo countries.
• Build a commercial agenda and digital project pipeline across Visa’s Clients in the region.
• Participate as subject matter expert in relevant industry forums.
• Develop methodologies, frameworks and approaches to evaluate Client’s digital status, envision priority transformational state and design implementation roadmaps.
• Guide Clients in the adoption of Visa’s Digital assets and capabilities.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g.: Products, Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Risk) to devise, develop and implement go-to-market strategies.
• Assist in the lifecycle execution of digital consulting engagements across the SoCo region through digital know how and expertise.
• Crosspollinate project experiences and outcomes across SoCo and global markets.
• Anticipate Client’s needs by continuously researching and testing concepts of emerging digital capabilities and ensure inclusion in projects.
• Help scale the digital practice through augmentation, standardization and streamlining.
• Develop data driven insights to inform and guide digital practice decisions.
• Help identify and shape potential digital opportunities with market leads.

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in quantitative field (e.g. engineering, economics, computer science, business administration, finance…).
• Master’s Degree in related fields a plus.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in financial services industry, payments, consulting or similar.
• Technological driven mindset, digitally savvy and up-to-date with latest market and industry innovation trends.
• Problem solving ability with strategic focus on influencing incremental growth. Understanding of card and payment P&L and critical factors driving profitability.
• Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
• Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.
• Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills
• Team player with agile focus.
• Passionate, self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.
• English and Spanish

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

• Support the execution of VCA’s Digital strategy across SoCo countries.
• Build a commercial agenda and digital project pipeline across Visa’s Clients in the region.
• Participate as subject matter expert in relevant industry forums.
• Develop methodologies, frameworks and approaches to evaluate Client’s digital status, envision priority transformational state and design implementation roadmaps.
• Guide Clients in the adoption of Visa’s Digital assets and capabilities.
• Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g.: Products, Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Risk) to devise, develop and implement go-to-market strategies.
• Assist in the lifecycle execution of digital consulting engagements across the SoCo region through digital know how and expertise.
• Crosspollinate project experiences and outcomes across SoCo and global markets.
• Anticipate Client’s needs by continuously researching and testing concepts of emerging digital capabilities and ensure inclusion in projects.
• Help scale the digital practice through augmentation, standardization and streamlining.
• Develop data driven insights to inform and guide digital practice decisions.
• Help identify and shape potential digital opportunities with market leads