Company Description
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.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description
What's it all about?
As a VCA Managed Services Senior Manager you will manage consulting engagements for Visa clients in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. You will be based in Prague, Czechia.
You will:

• Lead sales and participate in VMS projects delivery
  
• Drive meaningful business relationships between Visa and its key clients, build trustful relationships, and coordinate stakeholders’ communication
  
• Be an experienced IT strategy consultant, and implementation specialist able to help our clients grow their business, especially in the payments and digital domains
  

Day to day:

• Sell VMS projects to Visa clients, cross-sell and up-sell Visa solutions and capabilities
  
• Manage projects portfolio as a VMS Pod Lead (client manager)
  
• Recruit and manage VMS resources working on-site with Visa clients
  
• Maintain full responsibility for delivering VMS revenue and margin targets in Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary
  
• Lead and deliver projects through either self, other internal or external staff as appropriate
  
• Manage project costs to agreed budgets and timeframes and ensure high standard of delivery
  
• Understand our clients’ business objectives, identify opportunities and improvements to grow the business and digital banking of our clients
  
• Develop and propose appropriate concepts and digital business solutions to clients
  
• Leverage Visa’s innovation, product and data capabilities to further grow our clients’ business by working together with the sales and digital product teams
  

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.


Qualifications
What we're after…

• Min. 3 years in Program Manager and/ or PMO manager role
• At least 7 years of experience in IT consulting, systems implementation and integration, project or product management in the payments industry
• Strong knowledge of Visa products and services, and the regulatory and compliance environment in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
• Excellent client relationship management skills (including senior executive level) in the financial services industry
• Experience in structuring project proposal based on client’s needs and problem statement, defining clear project approach and deliverables. Ability to deliver high-quality projects leading small team of consultants, business analysts, developers, testers, and data analysts, leveraging and further developing own subject matter expertise in banking and payments industry
• Experience in conceptualizing new products and business models in a digital and technology-driven environments
• Excellent spoken and written command of both Czech,or Slovak and English language
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to comprehend and convey complex business information
• High proficiency in Power Point, Word, and Excel
• A proven ability to thrive in high pressure situations and a fast paced and matrixed environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate complex and ambiguous information into clear and actionable solutions
• Willingness to travel and work onsite with clients if needed
• Experience in product implementation and certification with Visa (preferably in money movement, and commercial solutions) will be an advantage.

Additional Information
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.