Data Science Director CMS

The Data Science Director supports our CMS (Commercial and Money Movement Solutions) teams, acts as the primary lead and Data Science evangelist for our internal stakeholders in CMS.  We are seeking strategic and analytical thinker to shape data driven strategies for Visa’s CMS teams to support their tactical and strategic requirements. The role will partner with our Global teams that draws on Data Science capabilities to grow support our stakeholders.

This role can also be based in London (UK).

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Provides thought leadership to the CMS Europe team and the leadership team in data science and analytics techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa’s unique data set
• Lead a team of 4+ people
• Understand strategic (i.e. 3/5-year plan) and tactical needs (i.e. annual plan) for our stakeholders, can create roadmaps and deliver them.
• Evangelizes the creative use of data and analytics to solve business problems with internal clients 
• Identifies how data science and predictive techniques can be used to enhance existing CMSs, including core applications, consumer applications and our Value-added services teams.
• Partners with our Global CMS IDA team to support and leverage any global solutions to better support our stakeholders.
• Able to lead the delivery of data science and analytics projects (utilising delivery resources) during times of capacity issues
• Identifies trends in our client work to inform Visa’s data CMS development path
• Proactively identifies opportunities to drive increase revenue in the region to support delivery of the business plan

This is a hybrid position. This requires 3 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) attendance in the office.