Manager, Pricing

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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.

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Job Description

You will join the pricing strategy team responsible for product monetization and pricing strategy for Visa’s value-added products and services (VAS). It is a customer centric nimble team that strives to provide Visa a competitive edge and enable pricing to be leveraged as a strategic lever for growth.

The manager will play a key role in accelerating this growth. He/She will be a key member of the team that will develop and scale global pricing strategies to capitalize on market opportunities and business objectives.

We are looking for someone who is inquisitive, driven, and enjoys solving complex business problems using his/her strong analytical skills. Examples of some activities are analyzing large amounts of product data, conducting quantitative and qualitative market and competitive research, and creating pricing tools/models that will be used throughout the organization to assess proper pricing targets and impacts, including customer-facing teams. 

This is a highly analytical role that requires consideration of multiple data sources and the ability to synthesize input to create logical and market competitive outcomes. This role reports to the VP, Pricing Strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Build strong understanding of our products’ value proposition relative to competition and develop pricing and packaging using value-based pricing approach.
• Be market informed. Visa has a global footprint. Competition, market dynamics and commercial constructs varies by market. He/She is expected to develop understanding of the GTM model for the key markets and develop pricing derived from the local market understanding and competitive landscape.
• Model financial implications of pricing recommendations to drive pricing and packaging decisions for new products and price changes
• Engage and support sales and customer success teams on pricing tests

This position is to be located in our San Francisco, CA office location.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Prior management consulting, investment banking, pricing strategy, or corporate strategy experience is a huge plus
• Strong problem solving and time management skills
• Proficiency with MS Excel and experience with BI tools such as Tableau
• Experience supporting cross-functional initiatives and facilitating collaboration across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Strategy organizations
• Pragmatic mindset with intense focus on execution against client needs, articulation of value proposition and concrete market facing focus
• Financial acumen—ability to utilize sophisticated financial analyses to evaluate business opportunities and make strategic choices
• Must be results-oriented, and able to handle multiple urgent tasks and effectively deal with ambiguity
• Comfortable receiving and giving feedback in a constructive manner

Key Experience:

• Pricing strategy and payment experience preferred but not required.
• Experience working in a global matrix organization with the ability to navigate complex structures and empower decision-making locally
• Experience supporting a B2B selling environment
• Demonstrated ability to make timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness

U.S. Applicants Only

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