Implementation Manager

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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.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description

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As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.
By joining one of our teams at Visa Payments Ltd, a division of Visa Inc since 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Being part of Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments technology, our mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.
Visa Payments Ltd is a financial technology business that provides cross-border payment processing services to banks and payments businesses across six continents through its global network.
Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we are proud that we are a talented team of 18,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life both within and outside of the office, and whether it is taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programmes, Visa Payments Ltd and Visa Inc. respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone.
You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.
If you think you could support the Visa family by joining Visa Payments Ltd as an Implementation Manager, we want to hear from you.

The Implementation team are responsible for managing end-to-end lifecycle of client or network partner implementations (onboarding, offboarding or remediation). This role will be responsible for leading the end-to-end lifecycle of a particular client or network partner implementation. This may include:

• Planning network partner or client onboarding, offboarding or remediation activities, across the full delivery lifecycle
• Managing the execution of the client or network partner implementation including capturing and reporting the status of core implementation tasks
• Managing network partner mandatory route changes (including key legal and compliance reviews and approvals)
• Supporting handover of client or network partners to BAU teams, ensuring all appropriate governance and sign-off has been finalised
• Support continuous improvement of the implementation playbook through routine and bespoke analysis to identify improvement opportunities and feedback to readiness teams to adjust the playboo

This role will report to the Director, Implementation and shall:

• Manage key implementation objectives, deliverables, milestones, dependencies and success criteria in collaboration with the sponsor and other stakeholders.
• Ensure risks are accounted for and that an appropriate risk management process is in place and followed appropriately by the team.
• Ensure all stakeholders are kept up to date on progress, potential risks and delays, budget concerns, etc.
• Anticipate issues and delays that may occur and put contingency plans in place as appropriate.
• Respond to issues, challenges and concerns that arise during the implementation, challenging and pushing back as required.
• Manage the relationship with both internal and external senior stakeholders, escalating only in the most complex situations.
• Work with others to utilise multiple information sources in order to resolve complex problems, identifying potential solutions and recommendations.
• Explain complex issues and work with others to reach a consensus in order to achieve objectives/success criteria