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At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

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Principle Responsibilities / Key Result Areas

• Managing Prepaid Products for the West Central Africa region, including product design and management, client communication and training, sales, implementation support and program management advice.
• Prepare Training packs, Toolkits and other relevant product collaterals for Banks, customers & Government stakeholders.
• Providing support and guidance to issuers and partners to optimize portfolio performance. 

Other Responsibilities pertaining to daily management of prepaid products:

• Supporting Business Development staff to maintain and grow relationships with relevant stakeholders across multiple business categories
• Ensuring achievement of product business goals/targets for volumes and P&L.
• Accountable for regional results in prepaid category, through support of and knowledge transfer to business development staff to meet sales/volume/revenue targets.
• Lead efforts to capitalize on the entire prepaid value chain and position Visa prepaid as a convergence point for multiple channels, platforms and product solutions.
• Executing deployment of Infrastructure and Category Development initiatives in the region including risk management and new service deployment.
• Identifying and implementing key enhancements to increase product profitability and cardholder satisfaction.
• Responsible for budget management for areas under direct responsibility.
• Working with a cross-functional team to execute annual product plans.
• Conducting business performance analysis, identifying key product metrics and profitability drivers.
• Providing support and guidance to issuers and partners to help them increase portfolio performance.  
• Identify and increase opportunities to increase card penetration and distribution channels.  
• Promote Visa's leadership in the prepaid category at industry events.

Strategic Nature, Mgmt. Accountability & Scope

• Contributes to the development of the prepaid strategy across a variety of stakeholders.
• Provide prepaid leadership and management. 
• Ensure implementation of annual prepaid goals & plans.
• Provide leadership to managers and other professional staff on prepaid.
• Leads prepaid projects to achieve milestones and objectives.

Decision Making & Complexity

• Decisions impact the implementation of plans to achieve annual prepaid goals. Develop prepaid plans including business, products and organizational priorities.
• Contribute to development of prepaid strategy and recommend prepaid improvements.
• Operates with limited guidance in a complex environment.

Key Competencies

• Complete understanding of prepaid products, including product value chain and product economics. Understanding of mobile commerce and money transfer solutions and their convergence with prepaid.
• Able to demonstrate the drive and vision of an entrepreneur, building a business and identifying key trends for the future.
• Proven consumer and/or prepaid card product management experience with a demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategies that deliver measurable business results.
• Client facing experience required with demonstrated professional maturity and ability to inform, influence and drive the category.
• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with internal matrix with high level of success and achievement.
• Flexible and creative thinker with the ability to define business tradeoffs, generate innovative solutions and manage uncertainty.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills interpersonal and presentation skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively.

Professional

• Professional Degree in Business Management (or similar qualifications) with significant relevant experience in a financial services company.
• Understanding of Prepaid Cards business or related Payments Industry experience.
• Understanding of Merchant Acquiring business.
• Understanding of Financial Transaction processing. 

Technical

• Expertise in Business process development/analysis is a plus.
• Familiarity with processing platforms is a plus.
• Knowledge of Visa Systems is a plus.

Business

• Significant experience in banking, cards or related industry.
• Business Analytical skills.
• Team work & collaboration.
• Leadership skills.
• Negotiation and sales skills.
• Proven product management experience.
• Strategic planning & analytical thinking.
• Ability to understand financial concepts.
• Strong Business Negotiations skills.
• Industry Management experience.
• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal; and ability to communicate at all levels within large organizations.
• Ability to work independently and engage multiple levels of management in key decisions where required for the business.
• Contacts within the Sub-Saharan Africa banking and card industry would be an asset.
• Must be fluent in French and English

Flexibility to travel