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.

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, we solve the most strategic problems for our clients.

Job Description

The Nordics and Baltics (N&B) Consulting Practice within VCA provides consulting and solution services for issuer, acquirers, ecosystem entities and merchants in the region. We apply our deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities drive growth and improve profitability.

Our team is seeking a Consulting Manager based in Oslo to join our strategic consulting practice. This role involves contributing to the development and implementation of high-impact projects for our clients in the Nordic and Baltic regions. As part of your responsibilities, you will collaborate closely with our clients across various regions to deliver effective solutions. Your focus will be on initiating strategies that promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby solidifying Visa's position as both a preferred brand and an exceptional business partner.

What you'll do

• Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to securing future engagements by identifying potential opportunities with clients.
• Participate in regular strategic and planning discussions with internal Visa teams.
• Serve as a primary contact for both client and internal inquiries.
• Manage multiple priorities across various workstreams and projects simultaneously.
• Develop proposals from problem statements with guidance from leadership.
• Participate in creating frameworks, approaches, solutions, and recommendations that effectively address impactful opportunities and challenges.
• Build solutions and measurable insights to help clients grow their portfolios and drive customer engagement.
• Collaborate across functions (e.g., marketing, sales, risk, innovation) and global teams to execute projects, leveraging the full scope of Visa’s resources.
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to improve client performance, boost growth, and provide strategic guidance on client priorities.
• Perform client-specific analysis on portfolio data, including customer demographics, activity, spend levels, behavioral scores, and financial information.

This is a hybrid position. The expectation for days in the office will be confirmed by the hiring manager

Qualifications

What you'll need

• Problem-solving skills with a strategic focus on influencing ROI. An understanding of card issuers' P&L and key profitability drivers is a plus.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, particularly in designing and delivering project results and materials.
• A collaborative and adaptable approach, with experience working effectively in a matrixed organization.
• The ability to manage numerous projects concurrently and work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Significant experience with a record of high performance in a large consulting firm or corporate strategy environment.
• Competence in using financial indicators to assess business performance, with a focus on return on investment.
• Ability to draw meaningful insights from both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Proficiency in data-driven storytelling, using data visualization to enhance project execution.
• Ability to generate templates and storyboards, guide team members, and ask insightful questions to uncover new areas of analysis.
• Capability to take a problem statement and support the creation of proposals, including competitive analysis, with guidance from leadership.

While proficiency in Norwegian is not a requirement, it is considered a valuable asset for your application.

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.