Jobs, fresher vacancy - Strategic Initiatives Program Director (open to all Visa Europe office locations) • UK

Company: Visa

UK

Job DescriptionWe are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Strategic Initiatives Program Director to lead and orchestrate a diverse portfolio of high-impact cross-business strategic initiatives across Europe. This role is crucial in enabling the organisation to meet its strategic objectives through the successful execution of these initiatives, which will also include leadership in execution of large-scale pan-European and single country deals.Key Responsibilities:Leading and orchestrating a portfolio of European strategic initiatives working directly with the Europe Leadership Team, including commercial, regulatory, transformational, technology, financial, and product, client initiatives, shaping and delivering them to an agreed scope, timeline, budget and OKRs.End to end program management of client deals, orchestrating to bring world-class inputs across all countries and functions, whilst championing and embedding best-practice in deal outcomes.Leading the shaping, establishment and ongoing growth of high-performance cross-business team environments to deliver complex and high impact strategic outcomes, managing competing priorities, to drive critical path delivery.Promoting transparency and accountability for execution of deliverables and business outcomes, and providing timely, clear, insight-rich and audience-aware communications and progress reporting.Leading the identification and shaping of nascent ideas and translating into tangible outcomes that drive significant strategic and transformative value to our business and clients.Collaborating and sustaining high-trust relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.Act as a subject matter expert for project, program and strategic execution best practices, methods, processes, tools, templates, and standards.