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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nRole Summary:\nWe are currently looking for a Senior Manager to lead consulting engagements for our clients in Japan, supporting strategy and new business development in Consumer Issuing.\nThe Senior Manager will lead engagements and act as the main focal point, coordinating between the client team, junior team members, other internal local / global stakeholders, and outsourcing partners (as applicable). The Senior Manager will be responsible for managing various initiatives between Visa and the client. The Senior Manager will be responsible for scoping, proposing, contracting, and delivering projects. The full range of responsibilities is detailed below:\nResponsibilities:\nDrive initiative development to support the client’s consumer issuing business growth using strategic consulting methodologies - building hypotheses grounded in data, conducting deep quantitative analysis, and synthesizing recommendations - while translating ambiguous client requests into concrete, structured issues and plans. Example areas of support include:Go to market strategy design\nBusiness, product, and customer journey design\nNew product / system launch PMO (from business requirements definition through execution) for cross-regional initiatives operating in both English and Japanese\n\nBuild and maintain a deep, up-to-date understanding of Visa’s product specifications and capabilities, applying this knowledge to lead project execution and ensure recommendations are grounded in what is technically and commercially feasible.\nDrive high-quality delivery by fully leveraging both strategic consulting and business PMO skills while managing various subject matter experts, including data scientists, product specialists, and client services representatives, both in Japan and overseas offices.\nBuild and manage client relationships from department-head level and above, as well as key frontline members, to deepen the partnership and act as a trusted strategic partner.\nCoach and develop junior team members, contributing to the team’s overall capability and knowledge base.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nWhat you will need:\nHaving already accumulated a variety of experience, you will be curious about the payments industry and keen to work alongside an experienced team to quickly gain a deeper understanding. You will be client driven, comfortable managing a project end to end and relishing the opportunity to work closely with clients to influence their future performance.\nSpecific skills and experience you will bring are:\nFluent Japanese and at least business level English proficiency.\nDeep experience and a track record of high performance in strategy and business consulting, or project management (+ 8 years).\nDeep experience in managing complex cross-functional and cross-regional projects.\nProven ability to build data-driven hypotheses, generate insights from data, and translate ambiguous, abstract guidance into concrete, actionable plans that inform strategy and tactics.\nA strong command of Visa’s product specifications, with the ability to apply that knowledge to drive project execution.\nDemonstrated experience building and managing relationships with department-head-level and above client stakeholders.\nExperience leading cross-functional discussions and aligning diverse internal stakeholders (e.g., Product, Marketing) around a shared point of view.\nStrong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style, able to work effectively in a matrixed organization.\nExcellent presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities.\nSelf-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently.\nFlexible mindset to revise plans and scopes while managing clients’ expectations.\nStrong commercial acumen, with experience in developing business cases with proven ROI.\nWhat will also help:\nExperience in payments, the banking industry.\nExperience engaging with technical or development-driven projects as a business-side lead or stakeholder (e.g., representing business requirements on projects involving engineering/development teams).\nAn understanding of statistical analysis, modelling, scoring schemes, etc.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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