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Job Description
The Strategy Analyst will be a member of Visa’s CEMEA Corporate Strategy team.
The team shapes Visa’s long-term strategy and solves enterprise-level questions and challenges, by partnering with executives and business leaders across Visa’s organization. Recent initiatives have addressed topics such as go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and partnership/acquisition opportunities – many of which have been internationally focused. The team is also responsible for developing competitive intelligence and thought leadership on emerging trends in payments and technology.
The position is based at Visa’s CEMEA headquarters in Dubai.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead and design part of a strategy that enables strong sustainable competitive advantage for Visa and generates tangible impact on Visa’s performance
- Breakdown complex business problems, define a structured approach to addressing the component parts, independently formulate hypothesis and support project workstreams
- Drive deep quantitative and qualitative analytical insights, bringing a fresh and differentiated perspective, and supporting proposed recommendations
- Drive thought leadership with creative, novel, disruptive, but highly practical and implementable solutions to the challenges faced by business owners
- Ensure strategies and execution programs developed drive tangible commercial impact, secure active stakeholder buy-in and provide a clear actionable path to implementation
- Develop frameworks that support the prioritization of strategic initiatives and evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value.
- Develop clear, simple and impactful executive level communications, with a strong ability to persuade and influence senior decision makers
- Demonstrate outstanding people skills including supporting colleagues and acting as a magnet for future top talent to the strategy team
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
Qualifications (must-have):
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2 or more years of work experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking or equivalent
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.