Associate, Strategy and Planning (Value-Added Services)

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

The role will support the Senior Director of Strategy & Planning across a range of strategy, operations, and planning activities. Time spent on these areas will shift based on business needs. The Strategy Associate will support workstreams of key strategic initiatives (e.g., long-range strategy development, portfolio diagnostics, mission-critical projects) and ensure the Value-Added Services leadership team is equipped with the data and insights to meet growth imperatives.

Strong candidates are versatile team players who learn fast, have high EQ and IQ, and carry a demonstrated record of executing complex analyses and crafting robust strategic recommendations.

What we expect of you day-to-day:

• Support the Value-Added Services strategic planning process, ensuring alignment with the company's mission and objectives
• Support workstreams / projects related to multi-year strategy development and assessments of significant opportunities - including potential acquisitions - and threats
• Structure and solve business problems, collaborating with a range of internal stakeholders to make recommendations on issues with far-reaching business impact
• Communicate recommendations to senior management, other executive, functional, or regional teams and management in a clear, concise, and impactful way
• Support Value-Added Services' senior leadership team by developing thought leadership for internal executive meetings and external client councils / forums
• Execute market and competitive research and connect trends to business goals, synthesizing research into consumable strategy outputs
• Proactively manage upwards to pre-empt critical business opportunities and challenges

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Bachelor or Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• 3 or more years of relevant work experience in strategy, strategic planning, or a related role, ideally in a large corporate setting or a top-tier consulting firm.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Outstanding collaboration, teamwork attitude, and ability to learn.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Information for US Applicants

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer