Analyst, Pricing Strategy

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.

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The Global Pricing Strategy team at Visa is responsible for managing pricing with the objective of driving revenue growth of Visa’s network and adoption of value added services globally.  Pricing is a critical lever in driving these objectives and is central to Visa’s business. The Global Pricing Strategy team provides pricing expertise and collaborates with cross-functional teams and product owners to develop go-to-market strategies, client deal strategies, and multi-year financial planning. We are a small but impactful team which works with leaders and executives globally to design pricing solutions and drive revenue growth.

 

The Analyst, Pricing Strategy, will support work streams related to Visa Inc.’s pricing strategy and broader corporate initiatives, with focus on client deal pricing and strategy. You will help develop pricing frameworks and tools to support our business on our most strategic deals. The position requires the ability to apply strong analytical and critical thinking skills to solve business problems, and quickly arrive at recommendations that drive corporate priorities. Your work will be highly visible to leadership and will drive key insights for management discussions. The Analyst will report to the Senior Director, Pricing Strategy, and will be based at Visa's offices in either San Francisco, California or Foster City, California.

Essential Functions:

• Provide rigorous, quantitative, and qualitative analyses in support of identifying and vetting opportunities to drive Visa’s revenue
• Develop pricing and deal constructs for acceptance agreements with merchants and payment service providers
• Manage various aspects of deal generation and execution, including business case development, stakeholder impact assessments, management approvals, and support for contract negotiations
• Support elements of North America pricing strategy development and refinement, including regional and global pricing opportunity identification and pricing change planning
• Work with cross-functional teams (product, interchange, finance, legal, sales, etc) to execute across deals and various pricing initiatives. Provide pricing expertise as well as best practices for disciplined pricing and deal management
• Build and maintain business landscape knowledge, to provide foundational context for pricing initiatives
• Communicate and build support for recommendations among business leaders across the organization
• Participate in continuous training with other functions in the Pricing & Interchange Strategy team
• Specific projects will vary greatly in sponsor, business or strategic focus, depth, and stakeholder served, ranging from broad coordination efforts across multiple countries and/or functional areas to focused special assignments for senior management that are of particular high strategic importance to Visa Inc.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.  ​

Basic Qualifications:

2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

1-3 years of relevant professional experience

Superior analytical, financial modeling and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor

Ability to handle multiple project work streams, with proven success in synthesizing large data sets related to a wide variety of functional business problems.

Ability to work independently, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to build rigorous, fact-bases that support recommendations to senior management, other executive management

Eagerness to work intensively in joint teams with personnel of all levels to accomplish project objectives.

Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint

Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages in written and verbal communications.

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.  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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:  The estimated salary range for this position is $104,900 to $163,000 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).  Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.