Corporate Strategy Manager
Role Overview
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.
You will join Visa’s European Corporate Strategy team in London, working on priority questions for the business and presenting your work to senior leaders.
The role offers the chance to follow projects through from initial analysis to execution.
What we expect of you day-to-day:
• Own defined workstreams and support wider project teams on Visa’s strategy in Europe and its sub-regions
• Work with functional and regional teams to structure business questions, analyse the evidence and develop practical recommendations
• Carry out rigorous quantitative analysis, setting out assumptions clearly and checking conclusions against source data
• Turn analysis into clear recommendations, well-structured presentations and concise written updates for senior stakeholders
• Work effectively across teams, keep projects moving and help turn agreed recommendations into action
• Contribute to the Strategy team beyond project work, including sharing useful sources and tools, supporting team events and building knowledge of Visa, payments and European markets.
Key competencies:
• Use a structured approach to break down unfamiliar or complex questions, test hypotheses and identify important gaps early
• Write clearly and concisely, with a strong sense of the main message and the needs of the audience
• Plan and run effective discussions with colleagues across the business, asking good questions and agreeing clear next steps
• Be confident working in Excel and able to build and check complex analyses
• Plan your work with guidance, raise issues early and coordinate actions across stakeholders
• Be a constructive member of the team, share knowledge, support new joiners and give useful feedback to colleagues
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
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Qualifications
- Experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy or another role requiring strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field – an advanced degree preferred.
- Experience in areas such as growth strategy, market assessment, commercial due diligence or operating model design would be useful
- Payments experience a plus, not required; an interest in payments, technology and European business is important.
- Knowledge of a major European language a plus• Based in London or willing to relocate.
- 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.
- Based in London or willing to relocate.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field – an advanced degree preferred.
- Payments experience a plus, not required; an interest in payments, technology and European business is important.
- Knowledge of a major European language a plus
About Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks, and governments in over 200 countries through its electronic payment network, VisaNet.
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