Snr. Director - CEMEA Corporate Strategy

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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 Senior Director will be a member of Visa’s CEMEA Corporate Strategy team. The team plays a key role in shaping Visa’s long-term strategy and solving enterprise-level questions and challenges, often partnering with executives and business leaders across Visa’s organization. Recent initiatives have addressed such topics as go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and partnership/acquisition opportunities – many of which have been internationally focused. The team is also responsible for developing competitive intelligence and thought leadership on emerging trends in payments and technology. The position will be based at Visa’s CEMEA headquarters in Dubai.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Independently lead and design strategies that build strong sustainable competitive advantage and generate tangible impact on Visa’s performance
• Breakdown complex business problems, define a structured approach to addressing the component parts, independently formulate hypotheses and supporting project work steps
• Drive deep quantitative and qualitative analytical insight bringing a fresh and differentiated perspective, and supporting proposed recommendations
• Drive thought leadership with creative, novel, disruptive, but highly practical and implementable solutions to the challenges faced by business owners
• Ensure strategies and execution programs developed drive tangible commercial impact, secure active stakeholder buy-in and provide a clear actionable path to implementation
• Develop frameworks that support the prioritization of strategic initiatives and evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value.
• Develop clear, simple and impactful executive level communications, with a strong ability to persuade and influence senior decision makers
• Manage 2-3 strategy project teams and the related sets of stakeholders across different geographies simultaneously
• Demonstrate outstanding people skills including coaching and inspiring team members, supporting colleagues and acting as a magnet for future top talent to the strategy team

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from top-tier institution or similar academic experience

required

• 10 years or more of strategy or management consulting experience, or equivalent

required

• Strong payments industry experience preferred

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

• Independently lead and design strategies that build strong sustainable competitive advantage and generate tangible impact on Visa’s performance
• Breakdown complex business problems, define a structured approach to addressing the component parts, independently formulate hypotheses and supporting project work steps
• Drive deep quantitative and qualitative analytical insight bringing a fresh and differentiated perspective, and supporting proposed recommendations
• Drive thought leadership with creative, novel, disruptive, but highly practical and implementable solutions to the challenges faced by business owners
• Ensure strategies and execution programs developed drive tangible commercial impact, secure active stakeholder buy-in and provide a clear actionable path to implementation
• Develop frameworks that support the prioritization of strategic initiatives and evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value.
• Develop clear, simple and impactful executive level communications, with a strong ability to persuade and influence senior decision makers
• Manage 2-3 strategy project teams and the related sets of stakeholders across different geographies simultaneously
• Demonstrate outstanding people skills including coaching and inspiring team members, supporting colleagues and acting as a magnet for future top talent to the strategy tea