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.



The Director role 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 worksteps

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

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

• Bachelor\'s degree from top-tier institution or similar academic experience required
• +10 years of relevant industry or management consulting experience 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.

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