Corporate Strategy Associate (Europe)

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.

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Summary

The Associate, Europe Corporate Strategy is a member of Visa’s European Corporate Strategy team, responsible for Visa’s strategy development across Europe. They will own workstreams as part of key strategic initiatives, planning, corporate development and strategic intelligence gathering. Projects will support key areas of the business, whether functions or geographies, to meet their priorities such as P&L growth, creation of a new go-to-market strategy, or response to regulatory or competitive developments. She or He will typically be expected to work independently within a small team depending on the complexity of the project. This position is based in any Visa location in Europe, with occasional travel (less than 10%) required from time to time.

Corporate Strategy at Visa

The Corporate Strategy team has responsibility for advising the company’s leadership in Europe on the big questions they face across more than 30 countries in which Visa operates, and across all its functions such as Product, Sales, Merchants and Acquiring, and Technology. Example projects include a country growth strategy, market entry for a new product or service line, multi-year planning, determining the strategy in response to regulatory developments, Visa’s sustainability strategy. Consequently, the team has an excellent view across the priorities of the company at the highest level and broadest sweep.

We are a small team. This means everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves depending on the situation. We pride ourselves on being non-hierarchical and we work together in small, flexible combinations of people within our team and beyond.

What we expect of you day to day

• Lead or support workstreams on projects related to Visa’s overarching strategy in Europe and its sub-regions
• Work in teams that span multiple countries and functions
• Support the Strategy Team’s practice management (e.g. data sources, attending industry conferences, providing strategy input on new product development, planning team offsites and events, etc.)
• Knowledge sharing within the Corporate Strategy team and beyond
• Participate in continuous training with Corporate Strategy Team

Key competencies

Problem solving and project management

• Contributes to team problem solving
• Can prioritise, and re-prioritise without losing their cool
• Very organised with strong attention to detail
• Able to learn quickly and contribute on strategy projects with quick ramp up

Analytics

• Efficiently find and distil relevant information or data from internal and third-party sources
• Execute quantitative or Excel analyses with direction
• Proficient experience in Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Able to synthesise large datasets while also sense-checking
• Knows how to be 80/20 or more rigorous depending on the situation

Communication

• Can create effective written slides or memos
• Can clearly present and effectively defend analyses to others
• Actively contribute to internal team meetings and listen deeply
• Strong interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with other teams

Personal

• Motivated by being a valued and valuable member of a small team with big impact
• Take full accountability and ownership of development, build relationships across team, and provide actionable feedback upward and to peers
• Strong desire to learn and develop themselves and seeks out feedback
• Genuinely curious to learn more about payments and Visa
• Eager to work with others at all levels in the company
• Humble and willing to get stuck in with whatever is required of them for the wider needs of the team, the company, or themselves

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.

• 1 to 2 years’ experience in management consulting or Internal Corporate Strategy is desirable but not essential
• Track record with the competencies required (see job description)
• Payments experience a plus, not required
• Knowledge of a major European language a plus

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.