Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results.

Join us as a Senior Manager, Data Solutions and Analytics and play an instrumental role in steering our Data strategy and delivery of data projects with Visa clients. You will translate analytical insights and used cases into captivating narratives tailored for our clients and stakeholders while offering valuable data advice to support business growth.

What a Senior Manager, Data Solutions and Analytics does at Visa:

• Identify new client opportunities by collaborating with market and regional teams.

• Develop data narratives, case studies and play back results to internal teams across the AP region.

• Grow Presence of Data Science projects with Visa clients across the region.

• Lead Commercialization activities for client data projects across the region.

• Coordinate Data Science initiatives across market and regional accounts.

• Coordinate with client data projects delivery team and project governance.

• Work closely with our different functional practice initiatives and account planning sessions.

Why this is important to Visa

This role will be vital in the growth of our Data as a Service business across Asia Pacific. The role will help to scale, diversify and transform our Managed Services Data capabilities which will support Visa’s business in the region. You will evolve our Data Services to drive uptake and delivery of Data projects. You will own key internal and external stakeholder relationships with Visa teams and our vendors as well as supporting our clients.

Projects you will be a part of:

This role will play a critical role in developing compelling stories from data to drive client actions and optimize portfolio performance. You will be working closely with teams across different regions to build new solutions and ideate approaches for various markets.

About the role

The incumbent will be leading a team and be part of a larger team within the IFF department in providing seamless and customer-focused solutions to support the achievement of business objectives.

What you will be doing

• Lead the Customer service team for Sea freight
• Liaise with customers on the standard operating procedures
• To meet up with clients on projects / special matters
• Prepare customer key performance index reports
• Promptly handle customers / team escalations
• To implement corrective actions and preventive measures for immediate service recovery
• To co-ordinate with Ocean carriers for bookings / uplift upon escalation from team
• Attend to freight management and rates negotiation
• Provide quotes / rates to COD customer or overseas offices
• Liaise with overseas agents on the various requirements and rates
• Review the profit & loss of product desk
• Analyse job file purchasing and raise concern to Pricing team
• Review & approve changes of work processes before escalation to Head of Sea Freight
• Conduct recruitment exercise for officer / executive position when needed
• Provide related training concerning the BU to new staff assign to the team
• Joint sales visit to resolved operations issue when necessary

Team Management

• Ensure and monitor team compliance to the Bollore’s Code of Conduct and Company’s regulations
• Ensure team understanding and implementation on Bollore’s Value in daily work behaviors
• Plan and monitor team performance including give coaching and counselling needed to deliver expected outcomes
• Plan and monitor team development together with HR Division
• Ensure updated Job Description availability for the team by coordinating with HR Division
• Ensure all changes in Department / Section communicated properly to the team

The successful candidate

• Diploma / Degree preferred
• Minimum 8 years of experience in freight forwarding with sea freight experiences
• Previous customer service experience is an added advantage
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Pleasant personality and a good team player
• Proficient in MS Office & ability to work independently
• DGR trained will be an advantage
• Location: 101 Alps Ave Singapore 498793 (Designated transport Pasir Ris, Ang Mo Kio, Tanah Merah, Tampines, Admiratly, Yishun and Sengkang)

Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. We are backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors. And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values:

• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.

We are seeking a passionate and strong leader in Data Analytics and Data Science to lead the strategy, development, and implementation of data-driven solutions across the organization. This role will oversee and manage the end-to-end process, from data collection, analysis, solution deployment and business integration.

What you will do:

• Data Strategy & Vision: Understand key company priorities and translate them into an actionable Data strategy to drive data maturity across the organization, enabling business growth, improve risk management, and enhanced customer experiences. 
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor the Data Analytics and Data Science domain leads and their respective reportees to develop a high performance data team
• Influence Stakeholders: Partner with cross-functional teams such as Data Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, Risk, and Finance to drive data-driven initiatives, align on objectives, and ensure effective execution. 
• Data to Drive Business Impact:  Initiate new opportunities and continue existing projects where data can deliver analytics recommendations to drive key business metrics, and develop processes and frameworks to enable this.  

What we are looking at:

• At least 7+ years of experience in data analytics, data science, or related fields, with at least 3 years in a leadership role. Experience in  Financial Services, Fintech, and/or Tech companies and domain exposure to SME credit risk is preferred.
• Proven experience leading and managing teams in a fast-paced, high-growth company or fintech environment. Experience being a manager of managers is preferred.
• Proficient in SQL, Python or R and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Qlik). Experience selecting and implementing tools for analytics and data science is preferred.
• Ability to translate complex data insights into actionable business strategies and influence stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of presenting insights to non-technical stakeholders and influencing strategic decisions.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills  in a structured fashion
• Strong prioritization abilities according to business needs and constraints.

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible Working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical Benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their back for their loved ones too.
• Mental Health and Wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching. And we have our Great FSMK Workout sessions too to keep everyone healthy and fit!
• Tech Support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity

YOUR MISSION _________

Key Responsibilities

Animation & Product Launches:

• Align the brand direction for each launch with the regional vision to ensure relevant visual merchandising outcomes that supports the marketing strategy.
• To submit forecasting of launch POSM and testers based on marketing priorities and budget.
• Design and create visual merchandising displays based on launches needs in all POS and to manage the production and delivery to stores.
• Consolidate POSM orders that requires local fabrication for all launches.
• Update planogram for all stores and formats based on Merchandising plan and aligning with Marketing team.
• Preparation of visuals for various formats utilizing brand guidelines and manage vendors in the process and ensure visuals are installed on planned launch date.
• Preparation of comprehensive and clear launch fitting guide relevant for all stores for BC to follow.
• To provide asset creation and graphic layout for all launches and related market event setup.
• Consolidate launch reports for submission to Regional team and photos update on Flash report.
• To submit Sephora VM planograms for every launch changeover.
• To work with suppliers on VM POSM production for animation and events setup.
• Setup of animation and events.

Openings/ Renovation:

• To create a store brief when there is a new store opening or renovation.
• To plan the visual merchandising aspects of a new store by preparing the planogram, category organization and visual elements of the store.
• Assist in sourcing and ordering of merchandising elements, manage the production processes, timeline and quality.
• Align store’s needs with regional direction in the presentation of products and visuals.
• Preparation of comprehensive and clear store opening fitting guide for setup team to follow.

Forecasting, Inventory Management & Budget:

• To manage long-term planning for planograms based on the product assortment plan to identify POSM needs and allocation for PH network.
• To consolidate and submit forecasting of generic and permanent POSM based on above, while validating warehouse stock levels to ensure accurate forecast.
• Track status of orders and ensure timely delivery of POSMs to each store.
• Work with logistics team to align allocation plans for markets and ensure healthy POSM stock levels.
• Manage local production to fulfill store needs where necessary.
• Manage and track cost spending with every launch VM (F24, F27) budget.

Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results. The incumbent will be part of VCA geographic team cluster of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand markets (SMT), and will be responsible for consulting engagements with Visa's clients in the three markets. The team is involved in a comprehensive range of consulting services and solutions to our clients that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management, digital strategy and data-driven portfolio management decisions.

If you like to deliver, and execute a fact-based, data-driven solution to solve for business problems that deliver value and enable clients to win more businesses, you should apply.

What a Manager does at Visa:

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) drives tangible, impactful and financial results for Visa's clients, including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants.  The VCA team provides a comprehensive range of consulting services, data analytics and solutions to our clients that address unique challenges in areas such as strategic growth, profitability, risk management and digital strategy.

We are currently looking for a Manager to undertake the delivery and execution of consulting engagements for Visa clients across Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, enabling portfolio growth and improved profitability in clients’ payment card business.

As a Manager you will be leading the delivery and execution of Visa Consulting and Analytics engagements for clients in SMT. In this role, you are expected to:

• Cultivate relationship with Visa’s clients and partners - Issuers, Acquirers, Merchants & Fintech firms, by being strategically focused, optimize client performance and implement recommendations in areas of customer life cycle management, and new product development and launches.
• Drive client conversations with the client working team, execute and embed our solutions within the client’s environment.  Building content and engagement delivery involves strong project management skills.
• Work cross-functionally with other Visa teams to bring a holistic solution to our clients leveraging Visa’s rich value-added services (VAS) from functions such as Marketing, Products, Risk, and Merchant Solutions.
• Develop propositions by closely working with Account Executives in managing the scope of work and project timelines
• Work across advisory practices (Risk, Digital, Portfolio Optimization, Merchants) to execute engagements across the VCA verticals.

This role reports to the Head of VCA for Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Why this is important to Visa

As a payment consulting arm of Visa, VCA is growing a team of highly specialize experts that can provide best in class payment expertise to the client. We want to bring this expertise closer to our clients by having a Manager to drive, execute, and support projects for the Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand (SMT) cluster. We are a global organization leveraging global expertise and best practice with local knowledge and understanding of our client partners. This enables us to deepen our partnership with our clients and bring value to their business.

Projects you will be a part of:

• As part of the team you will get opportunity to work on strategically important projects for clients.
• As an example, you might be working with an issuer client to assess opportunities across cardholder lifecycle, conduct gap assessment and determine strategy or provide best practice recommendation to the Bank.
• You will bring to life data analytics solutions and propensity models built by the Data Science team to ensure clients find value to take action such as running marketing campaigns to drive payment card activation and usage, changing policies or processes, launching new products, opening new channels, among other things.
• You will be the project manager of several engagements across SMT, working with the clients’ teams in providing guidance and supporting the teams in executing our solutions.
• You will be collaborating closely with VCA’s data scientists to jointly produce insights on analyses.

Expectations of an Assistant Finance Manager

• Perform monthly, quarterly, annual financial close with high accuracy and timeliness
• Ensure that all management reports submitted within deadline. Monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting to be carried out with insightful analysis and developing process to ensure quality reporting variances to be fully explained
• Assist in forecasting and budgeting cycles, ensuring that the numbers are reliable, stable and accurate.
• Strong partnership with the commercial finance team on the full spectrum of financial planning and analysis.
• Working with internal and external auditors, ensuring policies compliance in place.
• Manage internal reporting requirements on various basis.
• Involved in developing process improvements and system implementation/migration

Today we are looking for a sales assistant to join our talented team in Singapore. This role will be full time for 44hours per week and includes shifts at weekends and evenings.

As a sales assistant you will have the chance to offer customers a high level of service by starting conversations, selling products at the cash desk, fitting rooms and on the shop floor, processing deliveries, stock replenishment and merchandising the latest garments on the shop floor.

• Manage and deliver analytics benchmarking reports from conception to completion with actionable insights and recommendations.
• High interaction with external clients and manage internal and external stakeholders.
• Define detailed scope and methodology, creating and executing on the framework with appropriate data mining techniques
• Work with the broader Visa data science team to create data driven solutions.
• Focus on building data science visualization capabilities to solve client's problems.
• Drive innovation through using data science techniques
• Act as data science advocate within our partners, advising and coaching analytical teams and sharing best practices and case studies.
• Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.
• Explore leading methodologies and best practices to other teams and importing successful methodologies from other international markets

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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage large-scale projects from initiation to completion.
• Develop and maintain project plans, including cost estimates, budgets, schedules, and resource allocation.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met.
• Monitor project progress and identify and address any issues or risks that may arise.
• Manage project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Communicate and collaborate with clients, vendors, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to project team members.
• Prepare and present project status reports to senior management.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• PMP certification.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in project management, preferably in large-scale projects.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and make sound decisions.

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