About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
**What it's all about - **
Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on our expertise in consulting, data analytics, technology, payments and economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients. VCAs core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.
Within VCA exists VCA Implementation Services (VIS), a hands-on execution partner, implementing, operating, and optimizing Visa products in client environments to accelerate activation, portfolio growth, risk control, and data-driven performance.
Our team is seeking a Client Consulting Manager, Managed Services based in Amsterdam to join.
As a key team member, you will be part of our exciting growth journey. We are rapidly expanding our consulting business and offer you the platform to build and deploy your business and entrepreneurial proficiencies within the framework of a large global organization. You will have the opportunity to make significant contributions, grow your skills, and shape your career in a vibrant and fast paced environment.
Specific Responsibilities include:
- Lead and deliver consulting initiatives, contributing to engagement closure by identifying and shaping client opportunities.
- Engage in regular strategic and planning discussions cultivate and actively manage a pipeline of analytics led consulting work.
- Design and deploy analytical frameworks, data driven strategies, and practical solutions addressing high impact client opportunities and challenges.
- Partner effectively with cross functional teams (e.g. marketing, products, risk, innovation) and global regional stakeholders to leverage Visas full capabilities.
- Produce clear, actionable insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, accelerate growth, and inform strategic decision making.
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients, demonstrating strong executive presence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Build scalable solutions, toolkits, methodologies, and consulting assets that can be reused across VCA practices.
- Lead, coach, and develop consulting teams foster knowledge sharing and capability building across functions and regions as a subject matter expert.
- Oversee multiple workstreams and concurrent project deliveries, ensuring quality, timelines, and objectives are consistently met.
- Demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills in a matrixed, cross regional environment.
- Exhibit commercial acumen, including opportunity shaping, proposal development, and articulation of value and ROI.
- Strong project and workstream management skills experience managing complex, multi project engagement is a plus
- If you require any support during the recruitment process for any reasons, including those related to a disability, please let us know and we will be in contact to discuss this with you.
- This is a hybrid position, employees are expected to work from the office 3 days a week (determined by leadership site),
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
**What we'd like from you - **
- Problem solving ability with strategic focus on influencing ROI. Understanding of card issuers' P&L and critical factors in driving profitability a plus.
- · Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills (especially by designing, building, and showcasing project results packages and delivery materials).
- · Strong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style and able to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
- · Self-motivated, results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently and work independently.
- · Deep experience and a track record of high performance in large consulting firm or corporate strategy.
- · Competence in using financial indicators to assess business performance, focusing heavily on return on investment.
- · Ability to draw meaningful insights from both quantitative and qualitative data.
- · Proficient in data-driven storytelling with effective data visualization, use data to improve project execution.
- · Able to generate templates + storyboards (flow / structure), guide others, and ask questions to uncover new areas of analysis.
- · Ability to take a problem statement and support crafting proposals with guidance from leadership, like competitive analysis.
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.