Marketing Consulting Manager VCA Managed Services

Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible impactful and financial results for Visas clients including card issuers acquirers and merchants. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting data analytics brand management marketing operations and macroeconomics VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.

The VCA team within Japan provides a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients in Japan that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth profitability risk management and digital strategy. In VCA Managed Services team plays a key role to enhance partnership with one of the largest clients for Visas Japan business and focuses on developing implementing and improving clients business by collaborating with them closely.

What a Marketing Consulting Manager does at Visa:

• Lead and facilitate marketing related discussion with our client to identify potential opportunities scope projects pitch proposals and deliver endtoend marketing solutions(e.g. marketing campaign management customer insights) to grow the clients portfolio.

• Work closely across multiple team functions including wider VCA Product Sales Regional and Global Marketing team to acquire specific subject matter expertise as needed.

• Collaborate with data science team to utilize our advanced data analytics capabilities

• Provide professional marketing consultancy to clients covering both strategic and tactical aspects based on data and insights.

• Leverage Visa marketing assets and capabilities to develop comarketing programs to deliver measurable and mutually beneficial business outcomes.

• Manage budget and forecasts in collaboration with the client and thirdparty suppliers.

• Develop and share comarketing best practices to guide and inspire clients and the wider Visa organization.

• Support RfPs and new business wins through marketing thought leadership and ideation.

• Be Visa brand guardian and ensure all communications align with brand policies regulations and guidelines.

Why this is important to Visa

VCAs services allow our clients to boost their business performance by leveraging Visas expansive market insights and data. This in turn drives Visas business creating a winwin relationship where both client and Visas incentives are aligned to grow the business. This dynamic combined with the longterm relationship we have with clients enables a deeper level of engagement and impact compared to traditional consulting firms. VCA projects also help drive Visa Japans strategic initiatives and accelerate Japans transformation to a cashless society.

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

Qualifications :

What you will need:

• 8 years or more of experience in Marketing or Consulting industry or as an inhouse marketer
• Proficient Japanese and business level English proficiency
• Strong understanding of digital marketing social media and traditional marketing channels
• Experience in building and maintaining strong client relationships
• Strong in operating and managing the PDCA cycle for various marketing strategies including media planning campaign planning integrated onoff initiatives and largescale event initiatives. Experience in development of marketing concepts creative thinking and problem solving based on data and insights
• Ability to collaborate with partners both internally (matrix global organization) and externally (clients and agencies)
• Project management skills and ability to handle multiple initiative simultaneously often within target timeline
• Passion for Visa and client business technology innovation with high energy and intelligence
• Good presentation flexible interpersonal communication and negotiation abilities
• Possess high learning agility
• An independent individual yet a reliable team player
• Basic budget management and reporting
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment

What will also help:

• Good understanding of Visa and the payments ecosystem

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime