Job Description And Responsibilities
- The Marketing Analyst will provide hands-on executional marketing support to priority clients and internal stakeholders in South Africa. The role is focused on implementing, optimizing, and reporting on client-specific and digital-led marketing initiatives, with a strong emphasis on digital marketing execution, performance tracking, and campaign optimization.
- This role supports delivery excellence at a campaign, channel, and asset level, working closely with internal teams, agencies, and clients to ensure high-quality, on-time execution.
Principal Responsibilities-Key Results Area
Marketing Execution & Delivery Support
- Support the end-to-end execution of client marketing initiatives, from brief development through to go-live and post-campaign reporting.
- Coordinate campaign assets, timelines, approvals, and deliverables across internal teams and external agencies.
- Ensure all marketing activity is executed accurately, on brand, and aligned to agreed objectives.
- Manage operational and administrative aspects of marketing delivery, including timelines, documentation, and status reporting
Digital Marketing Execution
- Execute and support digital-first marketing campaigns across channels such as social media, digital display, paid media, content, and owned platforms.
- Manage digital content calendars and support publishing, optimization, and performance monitoring.
- Track and analyze digital campaign performance, providing clear insights and recommendations for optimization.
- Support implementation
Execution and Communication
- Ensure timely executions and deliverables from agencies and vendors.
- Maintain open communication between clients, partners and vendors to ensure accurate implementation.
Client and Stakeholder Support
- Act as a day-to-day marketing execution support resource for priority clients and internal account teams.
- Translate client briefs into clear execution plans and agency instructions.
- Maintain strong working relationships with agencies and vendors to ensure efficient delivery and quality outputs.
- Support preparation of client updates, reports, and execution reviews.
Marketing Value-Added Services (Execution Support)
- Support delivery of Marketing Value-Added Services through execution, coordination, and reporting, rather than strategy ownership.
- Assist with campaign set-up, tracking, and measurement of agreed KPIs.
- Contribute to post-campaign analysis and documentation of learnings and best practices
Reporting, Measurement & Governance
- Support campaign performance reporting, including digital metrics, KPIs, and ROI indicators.
- Ensure accurate tracking of deliverables, budgets, and invoices related to marketing execution.
- Maintain organized records of campaigns, assets, and results for internal reference and audits.
Revenue Pipeline and Project Management
- Support the management and reporting on the revenue pipeline, project status, successes, and challenges related to marketing VAS.
- Support day-to-day management of marketing VAS client engagements and project proposals.
- Oversee all administrative deliverables related to client marketing project management and VAS.
Key Competencies
Core Capabilities
- Innovative, and creative thinker with commercial acumen and strong execution mindset with high attention to detail.
- Superior negotiation skills leading to timely and acceptable resolutions, sales skills.
- Marketing Commercial acumen, Marketing data familiarity and Influencing skills are critical.
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously.
- Excellent coordination and project support skills.
- Clear and confident written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid interpersonal skills and collaborating with cross functional teams.
- Should understand key P&L drivers and leveraging the relevant aspects to build effective business cases.
- Project management skills and ability to present to senior stakeholders
Digital Marketing Strength
- Solid experience in digital marketing execution, including social, paid media, content, and performance tracking.
- Comfortable working with digital metrics, dashboards, and reporting tools.
- Understanding of digital customer journeys and optimization principles.
Ways of Working
- Highly organized, proactive, and self-driven.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.
- Client relationship and management skills
- Adaptable and solutions-oriented
- Strong self-management skills including demonstrable drive and energy.
- Able to work with minimal management oversight.
- Possess real passion for influence and advocacy, and a drive to always push and apply new approaches/thinking
- Demonstrated track record in the management of external clients, agencies, and the development of through the line campaign materials.
- Multicultural sensitivity and a commitment to drive inclusive culture.
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business or a related field with a marketing foundation
- 4+ years of relevant experience in a marketing execution, digital marketing or campaign support role
- Demonstrated marketing strategy and campaign management, particularly in digital first campaigns.
- Demonstrated selling skills and client engagement skills.
- Strong analytical skills to establish, track and improve KPIs and return on investment and other measurement tools.
- Understanding of media strategy and planning
- Digital Marketing skills
- Negotiation skills
- Is a strong team player, able to work on multiple projects and in a multi-functional team Personal resilience – able to maintain an emotional balance in the face of pressure and high-performance expectation
- Is comfortable working in a fast paced, hands-on, growth orientated work environment, must be adaptive to change
- Is self-confident and able to think on their feet.
- Strong personal motivation and commitment
- Is proactive and demonstrate initiative.
- Has strong commercial acumen
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Strong time management skills
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Job Description And Responsibilities
- The South Africa team is a dynamic group of innovators and problem-solvers committed to accelerating the digitization of payments and driving financial inclusion. We partner with banks, fintechs, merchants, and government entities to shape the future of commerce in one of Africa’s most vibrant markets.
- If you are passionate about payments, have deep industry expertise, and thrive in building strategic partnerships that deliver growth, this role is for you.
What a Director, Business Development does at Visa:
- Lead Strategic Growth: Own and grow Visa’s business with key clients in South Africa, driving revenue and market share through strong relationship management and consultative selling.
- Shape Market Strategy: Develop and execute short- and long-term plans aligned with Visa’s South Africa strategy to accelerate digital payments adoption.
- Drive Innovation: Champion Visa’s new payment technologies and solutions, articulating their commercial value to clients and enabling them to win in an evolving ecosystem.
- Identify Opportunities: Analyze client portfolios and market trends to uncover new business opportunities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver tailored solutions.
- Influence Industry Direction: Stay ahead of local and global payment trends, advising clients on best practices and positioning Visa as a trusted partner.
- Mentor and Inspire: Foster a high-performance culture within the team, coaching and developing talent to achieve ambitious goals.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications
- 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
What you will need:
- 12+ years of proven experience in business development, sales, or relationship management within payments, financial services, or banking.
- Strong track record of delivering revenue growth and managing strategic client relationships.
- Exceptional leadership skills with experience managing teams in a matrixed organization.
- Ability to navigate complex environments, influence senior stakeholders, and lead change.
- Deep understanding of South Africa’s payments landscape, regulatory environment, and emerging trends.
What will also help:
- Digital curiosity and a passion for innovation.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
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- The South Africa team is a dynamic group of innovators and problem-solvers committed to accelerating the digitization of payments and driving financial inclusion. We partner with banks, fintech's, merchants, and government entities to shape the future of commerce in one of Africa’s most vibrant markets.
- If you are passionate about payments, have deep industry expertise, and thrive in building strategic partnerships that deliver growth, this role is for you.
What a Director, Business Development does at Visa:
- Lead Strategic Growth: Own and grow Visa’s business with key clients in South Africa, driving revenue and market share through strong relationship management and consultative selling.
- Shape Market Strategy: Develop and execute short- and long-term plans aligned with Visa’s South Africa strategy to accelerate digital payments adoption.
- Drive Innovation: Champion Visa’s new payment technologies and solutions, articulating their commercial value to clients and enabling them to win in an evolving ecosystem.
- Identify Opportunities: Analyze client portfolios and market trends to uncover new business opportunities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver tailored solutions.
- Influence Industry Direction: Stay ahead of local and global payment trends, advising clients on best practices and positioning Visa as a trusted partner.
- Mentor and Inspire: Foster a high-performance culture within the team, coaching and developing talent to achieve ambitious goals.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
- 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
What you will need:
- 12+ years of proven experience in business development, sales, or relationship management within payments, financial services, or banking.
- Strong track record of delivering revenue growth and managing strategic client relationships.
- Exceptional leadership skills with experience managing teams in a matrixed organization.
- Ability to navigate complex environments, influence senior stakeholders, and lead change.
- Deep understanding of South Africa’s payments landscape, regulatory environment, and emerging trends.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to execute
What will also help:
- Digital curiosity and a passion for innovation.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
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Job Description And Responsibilities
- The Director is part of the Visa Consulting & Analytics team which delivers high impact advisory and implementation projects to Visa’s clients across Southern Eastern Africa (SEA) and West Central Africa (WCA). We are looking for motivated individuals to join our growing practice to contribute to business development, lead consulting projects delivery, and guide team members to deliver high quality client engagements.
Responsibilities include:
- Resolve clients’ complex strategic problems, synthesizing complex questions and ambiguous client situations as required.
- Structure and deliver client engagements end-to-end as well as guide team members in structuring and delivering different consulting project workstreams.
- Drive and deliver large engagements across Pan African Financial Institutions – Large engagements are across multiple areas from Portfolio management, Risk and Digital.
- Develop pitches/proposals and secure new consulting assignments with clients, as well as "re-engagements opportunities" via a consultative sales approach.
- Support Visa’s business development teams in developing client partnership pitches and proposals.
- Use Visa’s and external data to analyze client needs across the focus markets and identify opportunities for consulting assignments with Visa’s key clients.
- If required, work on client site to design and project manage the implementation of consulting recommendations, product value propositions, product migrations, etc.
- If required, develop and deliver client training programs and impart best practices knowledge sharing to Visa clients
- Manage project budgets and resources to perform all required duties.
- Work closely with different Visa functions, including Sales, Product, Marketing etc., to ensure seamless consulting projects delivery and impact.
- Carry out other ad hoc support, support other functions and teams within Visa, and work on internal projects.
- Contribute to VCA thought leadership material
- Lead knowledge sharing initiatives with consulting teams in other regions to incorporate best practice, source analytical or other solutions to bring global perspective to local clients
- Carry out other ad hoc support, support other functions and teams within Visa, and work on internal projects
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
Education/ professional qualifications:
- A recognized undergraduate degree qualification
- MBA or Post Graduate studies is a plus
- 10+ years of work experience including solid consulting experience
- Consulting experience gained within either a strategy house, a Big 4 firm
Experience/ skills required:
- Experience in financial services/ payments industry
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and excel modelling skills
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to present to senior execs including c-suite
- Relationship management skills – should be able to manage internal and external stakeholders at senior levels
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Superior project management skills
- Expertise in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint to develop superb client presentations
- Group facilitation and presentation skills
- Results driven, flexible and both internally and externally customer focused
- Self-motivated and able to use own initiative with limited direction
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with inter-disciplinary groups
- Fluency in English mandatory; French and/or Portuguese preferred but not a prerequisite
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