Copy of Analyst, Pricing Strategy

Visa•San Francisco, CA

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

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

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.