Title: Project Manager
Work type: 1 year contract
Organisation: Visa
Work location: Jamaica – Hybrid (remote and in-office)
Organisational Overview: Visa is a global leader in digital payments, enabling secure and reliable payment transactions among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in over 200 countries and territories. With a mission to connect the world through innovative payment solutions, Visa fosters inclusive economic growth while offering a purpose-driven, inclusive workplace where employees’ contributions directly impact the future of global money movement.
Job Summary: The role is responsible for leading and delivering high-impact consulting engagements for Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) across the Caribbean region. The position partners with issuers, merchants, acquirers, fintechs, and other ecosystem players to design and implement data-driven strategies that drive sustainable, profitable growth, strengthen client performance, and reinforce Visa’s position as a trusted strategic partner.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drive and execute VCA strategy across the Caribbean countries, focus in Jamaica, proactively capitalizing on regional opportunities in market.
- Lead consulting initiatives and contribute to closing engagement by identifying potential opportunities with clients.
- Cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with clients, from identifying potential opportunities through scoping the associated engagement
- Deploy frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
- Become a trusted partner to the account executives’ leaders, and a key contributor in nurturing and strengthening client relationships
- Partner with peers in other functional areas (e.g., marketing, sales, risk, innovation, sales) and across global regional teams to execute projects in ways that leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources
- Produce insights and analyses to improve client performance, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the payment P&L
- Build new solutions, toolkits, best practice documents and consulting approach that can be applied across VCA practice
- Drive VCA public face and thought leadership with papers, conferences and seminars.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant work experience, or an advanced degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, MD) with 5 years of experience.
- Academic background in a quantitative or analytical field such as engineering, economics, computer science, business administration, or finance.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the payments industry, preferably managing card portfolios or in payments-focused roles within consulting firms.
- Demonstrated experience in strategy and/or management consulting, with a track record of successful project delivery and application of consulting methodologies.
- Proven project management experience, including managing multiple initiatives and stakeholders concurrently.
- Strong knowledge of payment schemes, including products, processes, and card lifecycle management.
Key Skills and Competencies
- Strong executive presence with excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, able to engage effectively at all organizational levels.
- Advanced client relationship management skills, including engagement with senior executives and the ability to act as a trusted advisor and thought leader.
- Demonstrated leadership, people management, and collaboration capabilities, particularly in matrixed environments without direct reporting lines.
- Highly self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities and multiple projects simultaneously.
- Fluency in English and Spanish.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.