Senior Consultant, Cards & Market Intelligence
About the role
TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice
What We'll Bring At TransUnion, we are dedicated to finding ways information can be used to help people make better and smarter decisions. As a trusted provider of global information solutions, our mission is to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Because when people have access to more complete and multidimensional information, they can make more informed decisions and achieve great things.
Every day TransUnion offers our employees the tools and resources they need to find ways information can be used in diverse ways. Whether it is helping businesses better manage risk, providing better insights so a consumer can qualify for his first mortgage or working with law enforcement to make neighborhoods safer, we are improving the quality of life for individuals, families, communities and local economies around the world.
What You'll Bring
- Experience: 7+ years in financial services industry (credit cards, unsecured lending, deposits, or related), ideally managing card portfolios or a strong background in strategic and analytical consulting.
- Skills: Advanced financial & analytical capabilities, critical thinking, and exceptional communication skills. Proven ability to deliver data-driven insights and translate them into actionable strategies. Programming skills (e.g., SQL, Python) are an asset.
- Professional Qualities: Results-oriented, strategic, collaborative, and adaptable. Naturally curious and skilled at building strong professional relationships. Ability to distill complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics or related field. MBA is an asset.
Impact You'll Make Reporting to the Head of Market Development, TransUnion Canada, the Senior Consultant, Cards & Market Intelligence plays a pivotal role in enabling commercial strategies and delivering client-centric insights through market expertise and data-driven analysis. This position supports strategic verticals and key clients – primarily within credit cards and financial institutions – by providing actional intelligence that drives growth and strengthens TransUnion’s position as a trusted advisor in the Canadian financial services industry.
Scale Industry & Client-Centric Insights
- Act as a subject matter expert on credit cards for TransUnion Canada.
- Strengthen TransUnion’s role as a trusted advisor by delivering data-backed perspectives on emerging trends in financial services.
- Deliver forward-looking, data-driven insights and market intelligence on the Canadian credit card ecosystem and adjacent sectors to support strategic growth for existing clients and new market entrants.
- Develop & enhance market-leading credit card performance benchmarking & insights across the consumer lending lifecycle (acquisition, engagement, retention, risk management, collections).
- Lead strategic market and client-specific consulting engagements, including portfolio analysis and actionable recommendations.
- Conduct ad hoc market & portfolio analyses to support strategic opportunities.
- Support the evolution of TransUnion Advisory Boards (Cards, FinTech) and participate in key industry events.
- Collaborate with global TransUnion teams (Analytics, Research & Consulting, Product, Marketing, Market Development) to share best practices and deliver forward thinking insights and capabilities.
Accelerate Strategic Revenue Opportunities
- Monitor market trends, emerging threats, and opportunities to inform strategic priorities
- Collaborate cross-functionally to develop business cases and strategic recommendations for market sizing & whitespace opportunities.
- Partner with Sales Enablement to deliver vertical-specific content and training for seller upskilling.
- Identify and drive new revenue streams through data-driven insights and thought leadership.
- Translate voice-of-market and client feedback into actionable recommendations for product and capability roadmaps.
- Contribute to business planning initiatives and stress-testing strategies
This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
Accommodation is available, including for applicants with disabilities, in accordance with applicable laws. TransUnion's Internal Job Title Sr Consultant, Product Management
About TransUnion
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible in the modern economy. We do this by providing an actionable picture of each person so they can be reliably represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things.
This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.
A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people.
We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Senior Consultant, Cards & Market Intelligence
About the role
TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice
What We'll Bring At TransUnion, we are dedicated to finding ways information can be used to help people make better and smarter decisions. As a trusted provider of global information solutions, our mission is to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Because when people have access to more complete and multidimensional information, they can make more informed decisions and achieve great things.
Every day TransUnion offers our employees the tools and resources they need to find ways information can be used in diverse ways. Whether it is helping businesses better manage risk, providing better insights so a consumer can qualify for his first mortgage or working with law enforcement to make neighborhoods safer, we are improving the quality of life for individuals, families, communities and local economies around the world.
What You'll Bring
- Experience: 7+ years in financial services industry (credit cards, unsecured lending, deposits, or related), ideally managing card portfolios or a strong background in strategic and analytical consulting.
- Skills: Advanced financial & analytical capabilities, critical thinking, and exceptional communication skills. Proven ability to deliver data-driven insights and translate them into actionable strategies. Programming skills (e.g., SQL, Python) are an asset.
- Professional Qualities: Results-oriented, strategic, collaborative, and adaptable. Naturally curious and skilled at building strong professional relationships. Ability to distill complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics or related field. MBA is an asset.
Impact You'll Make Reporting to the Head of Market Development, TransUnion Canada, the Senior Consultant, Cards & Market Intelligence plays a pivotal role in enabling commercial strategies and delivering client-centric insights through market expertise and data-driven analysis. This position supports strategic verticals and key clients – primarily within credit cards and financial institutions – by providing actional intelligence that drives growth and strengthens TransUnion’s position as a trusted advisor in the Canadian financial services industry.
Scale Industry & Client-Centric Insights
- Act as a subject matter expert on credit cards for TransUnion Canada.
- Strengthen TransUnion’s role as a trusted advisor by delivering data-backed perspectives on emerging trends in financial services.
- Deliver forward-looking, data-driven insights and market intelligence on the Canadian credit card ecosystem and adjacent sectors to support strategic growth for existing clients and new market entrants.
- Develop & enhance market-leading credit card performance benchmarking & insights across the consumer lending lifecycle (acquisition, engagement, retention, risk management, collections).
- Lead strategic market and client-specific consulting engagements, including portfolio analysis and actionable recommendations.
- Conduct ad hoc market & portfolio analyses to support strategic opportunities.
- Support the evolution of TransUnion Advisory Boards (Cards, FinTech) and participate in key industry events.
- Collaborate with global TransUnion teams (Analytics, Research & Consulting, Product, Marketing, Market Development) to share best practices and deliver forward thinking insights and capabilities.
Accelerate Strategic Revenue Opportunities
- Monitor market trends, emerging threats, and opportunities to inform strategic priorities
- Collaborate cross-functionally to develop business cases and strategic recommendations for market sizing & whitespace opportunities.
- Partner with Sales Enablement to deliver vertical-specific content and training for seller upskilling.
- Identify and drive new revenue streams through data-driven insights and thought leadership.
- Translate voice-of-market and client feedback into actionable recommendations for product and capability roadmaps.
- Contribute to business planning initiatives and stress-testing strategies
This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
Accommodation is available, including for applicants with disabilities, in accordance with applicable laws. TransUnion's Internal Job Title Sr Consultant, Product Management
About TransUnion
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible in the modern economy. We do this by providing an actionable picture of each person so they can be reliably represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things.
This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.
A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people.
We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.