Senior Business Performance Manager

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Sales and Business Development

Company Description

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

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.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

Job Description

What’s it all about?

  • Strategy – work on selected strategic questions, defining pragmatic growth strategies for markets, business lines, and strategic initiatives, ensuring clear implementation plans and stakeholder buy-in for execution.       
  • Planning – work closely with the Continental Europe leadership team to drive growth across 35 markets through annual and quarterly planning processes, and investment prioritisation
  • The role will require a proactive individual with high confidence in analytics, using external and internal data sets to derive insights, and ability to build high quality presentation materials.

What we expect of you, day to day.

  • Work on a few strategic projects to drive growth in Continental Europe and a few central functions, using data to determine strategies, prioritise opportunities, and define areas for growth
  • Together with the business leaders work through and detail out business initiatives, including requirements for technical capabilities, go-to-market plans, and implementation timelines 
  • Ensure full alignment of the business leaders with the proposed strategy and execution plan, using data analytics, effective storytelling, and solid understanding of the technical aspects of Visa’s business   
  • Ensure alignment of the plans against the Global strategy and European goals and roadmaps for success. Collaborate with the Europe corporate strategy and cluster / function Business performance teams to structure and solve challenging business problems
  • Develop frameworks that support the prioritisation of strategic initiatives, and evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value
  • Drive annual multi-year planning and other planning events to effectively tell the story of the Continental Europe growth, and enable investment, while ensuring detailed alignment with the clusters and functions
  • Facilitate monthly/quarterly business reviews. Drive consistency, forecast accuracy and predictability against targets through robust performance measurement process, system enhancements, creating total transparency for executive management

Qualifications

What we're after.
• Advanced analytical and excel modeling skills
• Proficiency in managing external and internal data to derive insights
• Ability to build Board level presentations
• Flexibility and ability to adjust on the fly to new demands
• Commercially focused and a pragmatic self-starter with the ability to identify opportunities and propose solutions
• A sense of urgency, assertiveness, and directness. Ability to think longer-term coupled with fast execution of short-term priorities
• Solid knowledge of the payments business and financial services is a plus
• MBA degree is a plus

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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