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Strategy & Project Management Director - Remittances/Wallets

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VEON is a Nasdaq-listed global digital operator that serves more than 150 million customers with connectivity and about 120 million monthly active users with digital services in some of the world’s most exciting frontier markets. Operating across 5 countries that are home to nearly 520 million people, in other words more than 6% of the world’s population, VEON transforms lives through technology-driven services that empower individuals and drive economic growth.

With VEON’s Digital Operator 1440 vision and strategy, VEON Group companies redefine the engagement that telecom operators have with their customers, providing the best digital experience to customers up to 1440 minutes in a day. We transform not only the daily experience of the final users, but also support the growth of enterprises and industries as a whole, using cutting-edge technologies in AI, big-data and cloud services to serve our business customers.

This is all underpinned by a commitment to sustainability, ensuring VEON’s operations are run safely and ethically while fostering digital entrepreneurship and greater digital skills and literacy in the communities in which VEON operates. VEON’s values-based approach works to strengthen trust by building a responsible and sustainable business that benefits customers, employees, communities, and shareholders.

VEON’s international leadership team is drawn from experienced executives from around the world and has been led by CEO Kaan Terzioğlu since July 2021.

Position Summary

Lead the development and execution of VEON's international wallet strategy in markets outside VEON operating countries, focused on diaspora customers whose primary need is sending money back to their home markets.

The role will build wallet propositions that combine remittances with everyday financial services and payments to drive customer engagement and long-term value.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Market Development

  • Define and execute VEON's international wallet growth strategy across priority diaspora corridors, identifying target markets based on remittance flows, diaspora population size, and competitive dynamics.
  • Develop business cases, market-entry plans, and go-to-market strategies for each priority corridor, including sizing, investment requirements, and expected returns.
  • Conduct ongoing market and competitor analysis to refine prioritization and identify emerging opportunities or threats.

    • Product & Proposition Development

    • Design and launch wallet products focused on international remittances as the core use case, layering in bill payments, card-based services, merchant payments, and other everyday financial use cases to drive engagement.
    • Define the product roadmap and prioritize features based on customer needs, corridor economics, and competitive positioning.
    • Work with product, design, and technology teams to ensure the wallet experience is intuitive and tailored to diaspora customer needs.

      • Partnerships & Licensing

      Build and manage relationships with banks, payment networks, remittance and fintech partners, and regulators across target markets.

      Lead partnership negotiations and structure commercial agreements that support scalable, compliant international money movement.

      Coordinate licensing and regulatory approval processes required to launch and operate in new markets.

      Cross-Functional Execution

      • Coordinate cross-functional workstreams spanning product, technology, compliance, licensing, treasury, risk, and commercial teams to deliver launches on time.
      • Establish project plans, milestones, and governance frameworks to manage execution across multiple corridors in parallel.
      • Proactively identify and resolve execution risks, dependencies, and roadblocks across workstreams.

        • Performance & Continuous Improvement

        • Monitor performance, customer adoption, transaction volumes, and unit economics for each market, reporting regularly to senior leadership.
        • Drive continuous improvement of wallet propositions based on performance data, customer feedback, and market learnings.
        • Identify opportunities to scale successful propositions into additional corridors and markets.

Education & Experience

  • 10+ years of experience in fintech, payments, digital wallets, remittances, or financial services.
  • Strong understanding of cross-border payments and diaspora customer segments.
  • Experience launching and scaling digital financial products across multiple markets.
  • Ability to manage complex cross-functional programs and stakeholder relationships.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with strong execution capabilities.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Economics, or a related field.
  • MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification preferred.

Success Measures

  • Successful launch of new international wallet propositions.
  • Growth in active wallet customers and remittance volumes.
  • Expansion of everyday payment use cases beyond remittance.
  • Delivery of strategic partnerships and sustainable business economics.

VEON Manifesto Principles

Our Purpose is “Better Life for All”
  • At VEON we are motivated by our purpose: “Better Life for All”.
  • We define it in terms of the freedom to access opportunity, anywhere, anytime, regardless of background or circumstance.

Clarity is Our Superpower

  • “Better Life for All” begins with clarity, knowing what matters most to our customers and all stakeholders.
  • We cut through noise and master complexity to deliver clear, tangible value for all.

Our Pioneering Spirit Defines Us
  • VEON is a company of bold, creative pioneers who turn challenges into opportunities and bring innovation that leapfrogs barriers.
  • We believe that progress is not discovered, it is created.

We Fight Against Mediocrity
  • Excellence is not a goal post; it is a mindset. We set bold standards in product quality, service, value and communication.
  • We seek constant improvement, never settling on past achievements or the comfort of routines.

We Put Results Above Rituals
  • We focus on action over theory, purpose and clarity over bureaucracy and rituals.
  • Our processes are designed with clarity and simplicity to enable a fast-paced, lean, ambitious organization that delivers progress, never compromising on integrity.

We Hire for Potential and Drive
  • We hire for potential, drive, curiosity, diversity, and growth mindset, not just past credentials.
  • We develop talent who take bold bets and drive growth for our stakeholders.

Courage Fuels Our Leadership
  • We take risks and do not fear making mistakes, because we learn from them and grow with them.
  • We speak the truth candidly and respectfully, while leading with empathy.

We Aim for Audacious Impact
  • We aim for bold impact at scale. We seek game-changing innovations that can potentially reach hundreds of millions of people and fundamentally change the ways we do business.
  • We measure ourselves by the positive changes we create for our stakeholders.

We Incentivize with Integrity
  • We reward outcomes, impact, and results that drive shareholder value without compromising on integrity.
  • We reward exceptional performance delivered through an unwavering commitment to ethical standards

We Stand Strong Together
  • We unite through collaboration, unity, trust, and a shared purpose.
  • We channel our collaborative resilience into long-term growth for our people, customers and shareholders, we stay strong and keep moving.

We Never Give Up
  • We rise to every challenge, learn from adversity, and grow stronger. We embrace grit and perseverance as drivers of progress.
  • We turn setbacks into lessons that make us stronger.
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Do you want to be part of a team that serves over 150 million customers across 5 dynamic markets? Do you want to pioneer new experiences for hundreds of millions in emerging economies? Do you feel at home working in a truly diverse and inclusive environment? We are VEON, a global digital operator and we scale new heights never thought possible.
Our DE&I Vision is:
Creating an Inclusive World for All – Inside and Beyond VEON
We aspire to create an Inclusive world for all by providing Equal voice and representation, driving growth with diverse and inclusive teams, that create products that serve Diverse needs of our customers across all dimensions of life from connectivity to digital financial inclusion, education, health and entertainment, and creating value for our people, our partners, and communities.

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