Competitive Pricing Analyst jobs in San Francisco, CA

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

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, Global 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, Global 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 global pricing strategy development and refinement, including 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 Global 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. 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

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)
• 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.

Additional Information

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 a new hire into this position is 98,000.00 to 138,500.00 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.