Senior Manager, Consumer Products, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus (South East Europe)

Job Description

The role of the Senior Consumer Products Manager, Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus is to support the Head of Consumer Products, South East Europe, in delivering the consumer products strategy for these three markets and ensure that Visa's core proposition remains best in class, across Debit, Credit, Prepaid, Premium, Loyalty, Data and Risk Solutions. This role will be a unique combination of leadership, strategic vision, business development, technology architecture, hands-on support and client facing relationship management skills.

The successful candidate will have a deep working knowledge of payments and be a solution seller and technologist who can ideate with Visa clients to discuss priority Visa products, provide pre-sale advice and technical guidance on combining and integrating Visa products with clients’ value propositions. This role provides expert advice and thought leadership to external business leaders to help Visa grow existing client portfolio and win new business. This role will also use client feedback and experiences to decrease time-to-value for clients through automation, identify new products and services needed/wanted by the market, and enhance the usability of Visa’s broad product & solutions suite.

Candidates must have extensive experience with data-driven approach to understanding consumer needs, building consumer value propositions and new product constructs, product positioning, commercial and business case analysis, and program features, rules and implementation considerations. In addition, candidates must be fluent in digital and mobile payment trends and use cases. In addition, he/she must be highly collaborative, bring a structured approach to client engagement and documentation, employ moderation and facilitation skills, have a passion for payments, and have an ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

The role will require strong consultative client engagement, active listening and relationship building skills to understand client strategy, priorities and needs. The role also requires strong cross-functional collaboration and teamwork, partnering closely with internal Visa teams to integrate client go-to-market. Based on the international travel restrictions due to Covid-19, the role may require continuous travel across the three markets of coverage and limited travel to Visa’s Europe headquarters in London.

Qualifications

• Have deep knowledge and passion around emerging payments technologies and their potential to change commerce. Think like, communicate with, and inspire business leaders and developers to build their new products using Visa Products and Solutions
• Keeps abreast of payment technology developments, market trends and tracks competitive landscape
• Highly collaborative, bringing a structured problem-solving approach to client engagements and documentation, employing solutioning, moderation and facilitation skills
• Able to translate clientneeds into product requirementsby adapting existing product and solutions to client and markets’ needs
• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities; strong bias towards data-based decision making and comfort with financial analysis
• Relevant experience at a large European bank, leading financial institution or global payment company; or management consulting experience in financial services and payments
• Proven experience in the delivery and launch of new services and products across numerous markets
• Driven, resilient and positive under pressure, with excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent level of previous experience required

Additional Information

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.