What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Visa Consulting & Analytics position at Visa?
Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients.
The NA Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest issuers in the United States. We apply deep expertise in the banking, payments & analytics industry to provide impactful to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk.
The VCA team is looking for a Director to join our Merchant Travel & Entertainment segment and play a role in developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the North America region. The potential candidate will be responsible for selling consulting engagements as well as delivering and implementing projects and solutions with large travel and entertainment partners . This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner.
Most engagements are focused on developing strategies for our clients e.g. market penetration strategies, profitability analysis, segmentation, growth, product development, program launch, customer acquisition, customer life cycle optimization, retention & enhancements.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Manage a sales pipeline, within an identified list of client targets, and sell consulting work against a revenue target of 5M per year.
- Build strong client relationships to ensure awareness of our offerings, a clear understanding of how we support their strategic objectives, and advocacy for our work.
- Proactively engage in regular strategic & planning discussions with Account Executives, other VCA delivery teams and Client Marketing.
- Lead consulting initiatives and be the main source of strategic insight and direction to the team.
- Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities.
- Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting frameworks that will help clients to grow their portfolios and customer engagement in their core business.
- Partner with peers in other functional areas and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.
- Manage various systems of record for pricing approvals, internal routing, legal/funding approvals, and proper revenue recognition.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.