Director, Data Science

2 months ago

Old Toronto, Canada Visa Inc. Full time

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa’s network clients, including both financial services and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, data analytics, brand management, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, Visa Consulting and Analytics solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The US Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s largest issuers in the United States. We apply deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities, drive growth and improve profitability. The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to deliver solutions that address unique challenges in areas such as improving profitability, strategic growth, customer experience, digital payments and managing risk.

The VCA team is looking for a Director to join our consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in the North America region. The potential candidate will be responsible for delivering and implementing projects and solutions with Merchants & Co-Brand Partners. This person will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Potential engagements could include product development, program launch, customer acquisition, customer/merchant life cycle optimization, retention enhancement, benchmark analysis, profitability enhancement.

Essential Functions Include:
  1. Proactively engage with Visa MSS teams in regular strategic & planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with merchants and co-brand partners.
  2. Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities with Merchants & Co-Brand Partners.
  3. Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
  4. Build solutions and actionable insights that will help clients to grow their portfolios and merchant engagement in their core business.
  5. Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., merchants sales and solutions, marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.
  6. Produce insights, analyses and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the verticals and segments.
  7. Ability to effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets (industry and Visa) to determine meanings insights and recommendations for clients.
  8. Build new scalable solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approaches that can be applied across VCA practice.

Incumbents applying for the role should be self-motivated, highly energized, detail-oriented individuals who will deliver strategic thought leadership, problem diagnostics and high impact solutions to clients supporting growth and performance. Candidates must be able to develop enduring, strategic relationships with internal and external clients and across the Visa organization.

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.

Canada AODA Statement - Visa welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Basic Qualifications
  • 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD.
Preferred Qualifications
  • 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience at large management consulting firm or as a leader of large Co-brand portfolios.
  • Experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance. Significant focus on impacting ROI.
  • Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
  • Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects concurrently.
  • Knowledge and understanding of banking operations and/or payment schemes, including products & services, business systems and processes, marketing initiatives and card acquiring experience.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills.
  • Team-minded.
  • Technology mindset, curious, up-to-date with digital trends and applications.

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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