Senior Data Science Manager - Visa, Consulting & Analytics

Stockholm, Sweden

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Visa

Das digitale und mobile Zahlungsnetzwerk von Visa steht an der Spitze der neuen Zahlungstechnologien für die neue Zahlung, elektronische und kontaktlose Zahlung, die die Welt des Geldes bilden

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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

What's it all about?

As a Senior Data Science Manager, you are a key member the advisory service Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) and part of Visa’s global Data Science community. You are accountable for driving the blueprint, development and delivery of data driven strategies and solutions for Visa’s external clients in the Central European Region. In this role, you collaborate with management consultants, account executives, business development and other internal functions to support our clients’ with their most pressing issues and biggest opportunities. Your innovative and scalable solutions help drive business performance with a clear commercial ‘value’ and measurable ‘return’.

What we expect day to day:

Are you an adept problem solver who applies both innovation and logic to solve complex problems? If so, this is what we are looking for you to do with us!

  • Collaborating with external and internal partners. Working with VCA consultants in market to drive data science business development opportunities across key accounts to meet VCA revenue targets and with the objective to drive revenue growth for our clients and Visa
  • Enhancing client profitability, card and payments portfolio management across acquisition, usage and retention
  • Has execution proficiency in handling multiple medium to large data science projects along with rest of the partners in the project team within timelines and budget requirements
  • Do you enjoy designing and delivering powerful business-centric insights from data through storyboarding, analytics, visualization and ML?
  • Individual & Organizational Leadership: Develop solutions to meet the varying needs of everyone, everywhere. You will be mission driven and passionate about having a lasting impact by inspiring change in the payments industry. You enjoy working at a fast pace, be self-directed, and able to lead multiple concurrent challenges, issues and priorities. You will be motivated to explore new technologies and learn new things, while also recognizing that many good ideas and implementations may already exist

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

What we’re after…

We are after someone with qualitative and quantitative skills, with the ability to interpret data and translate to practical recommendations and bring the following skills:

  • Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and agile working style
  • Analytical skills, with validated intellectual rigor.
  • Experience with modern distributed systems, including both Hadoop/SQL and Apache Spark and with one or more data analytics/programming tools such as R/Python
  • Experience in the application of descriptive analytics, predictive modelling and machine learning technique to business problems
  • Experience planning, organizing, and leading end to end projects with diverse cross-functional teams
  • Ability to tailor data-driven results and communicate with impact to various audience levels, incl. senior business leaders. Experience of having worked in a consulting-like environment and client-facing project roles
  • Full working proficiency in English and a Scandinavian language

What we'd love... 

  • Experience working in payments industry (bank, credit reference agencies, Fintech, merchants) or management-consulting firm
  • Experience building and cultivating teams

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.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: Agile Consulting Consulting firm Data Analytics Distributed Systems FinTech Hadoop Machine Learning Python R Spark SQL

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: Europe
Country: Sweden
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