VP, Strategy & Transformation, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar & Cambodia (IPVMC)

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Job Description

Role Summary:

The IPVMC team is responsible for driving Visa’s strategy across highly diverse, fast‑growing markets, strengthening partnerships with clients, governments and regulators, as well as accelerating innovation across consumer, commercial and digital payments. Each market has a Country Manager directly reporting to the SVP, GCM, IPVMC and each function has a dedicated IPVMC leader with a dual reporting line to this role and a place on the cluster leadership team.

The role reports to the SVP, Group Country Manager, IPVMC and is a member of the IPVMC Leadership Team.

What a VP, Strategy & Transformation, IPVMC does at Visa:

• Shape cluster strategy: Lead the FY27 and longer-term strategy for IPVMC, connecting enterprise and Asia Pacific priorities with the opportunities and needs of each market.
• Translate strategy into execution: Lead and coordinate strategic planning across countries, business units and functions, ensuring clear choices, ownership, sequencing, investment logic and measurable outcomes.
• Lead AI-enabled transformation: Define and advance an AI-enabled transformation agenda for the cluster, identifying high-value use cases across strategy, commercial planning, customer insight and business operations, while promoting responsible adoption and effective change management.
• Accelerate insight and decision-making: Use data, advanced analytics, AI and automation to improve market intelligence, scenario planning, performance visibility and the speed and quality of executive decisions.
• Strengthen portfolio governance: Establish consistent frameworks to assess, prioritize and govern strategic initiatives, with transparent milestones, dependencies, risks and benefits.
• Evaluate growth and investment opportunities: Partner with regional and global stakeholders to assess organic and inorganic opportunities for strategic fit, financial value, execution feasibility and market impact.
• Solve complex business issues: Structure ambiguous, cross-market topics and develop practical recommendations on areas such as pricing, interchange, new payment flows, non-card rails and competitive response.
• Drive commercial performance: Partner with Sales, Finance and Sales Excellence to improve pipeline discipline, time-to-revenue, revenue conversion, client coverage, deal shaping and underwriting quality.
• Advance cross-border and value-added growth: Identify and govern opportunities across cross-border, Products and Solutions, Commercial and Money Movement Solutions, and Value-Added Services in partnership with functional leaders.
• Connect regional and global priorities: Coordinate closely with Asia Pacific Corporate Strategy and relevant global teams to ensure cluster plans are aligned, informed and positioned to draw on enterprise capabilities.
• Lead the BPO and strategy community: Set the direction and operating model for cluster and market Business Planning and Operations, Strategy and Analytics professionals, enabling strong partnership with Country Managers and functional teams.
• Build leadership capability and culture: Attract, develop and retain a diverse, high-performing team; create clear accountability; and coach talent to take on broader leadership responsibilities over time.

Why this is important to Visa:

The IPVMC cluster represents one of Visa's most strategically important and complex growth portfolios in Asia Pacific, encompassing large, high-growth and diverse markets at varying stages of payments maturity. Success across this cluster is critical to advancing Visa's long-term growth ambitions, strengthening relationships with governments, regulators and key ecosystem partners, and accelerating innovation across consumer, commercial and digital payments. As a member of the IPVMC Leadership Team, this role plays a pivotal part in shaping cluster strategy, driving enterprise-wide transformation and ensuring Visa is well positioned to capture emerging growth opportunities, including those enabled by AI, data and new payment technologies, across some of the region's most dynamic economies.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

What you will need:

• Executive strategy leadership: 15+ years experience leading enterprise, regional or multi-market strategy and transformation in a complex multinational environment, top-tier consulting firm, or equivalent setting.
• Payments and ecosystem knowledge: Deep understanding of payments, financial services, technology or adjacent digital ecosystems, with the judgment to navigate different market, customer and regulatory contexts.
• AI and digital transformation fluency: Practical experience applying AI, generative AI, advanced analytics or automation to business problems, with the ability to move from use-case identification to adoption, governance and measurable value.
• Responsible AI judgment: An informed approach to responsible AI, data quality, privacy, risk and human oversight, coupled with the ability to work effectively with technology, legal, risk and business stakeholders.
• Commercial and financial acumen: A strong record of evaluating growth opportunities, shaping investment choices and linking strategy to revenue, client and operational outcomes.
• Structured problem solving: Exceptional ability to simplify ambiguity, synthesize quantitative and qualitative evidence, develop clear choices and make recommendations that stand up to executive scrutiny.
• Influence in a matrix: Proven credibility as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, with the ability to challenge constructively, align diverse stakeholders and mobilize execution without relying on direct authority.
• Transformation and change leadership: Experience building governance, operating rhythms and organizational capability that sustain change across markets and functions.
• Communication: Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to convey complex ideas with clarity and adapt the narrative for executive, functional and market audiences.
• People leadership: An inclusive leader who builds, empowers and continuously develops diverse, high-performing teams and creates a strong succession pipeline. Bringing clarity to complexity, use technology and AI thoughtfully, hold a high bar for evidence and execution, and create the conditions for colleagues across the cluster to succeed.
• Global mindset: Comfort operating across cultures, geographies and time zones, with sound judgment, curiosity and a strong external orientation.

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.

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