Senior Director

Overview:

We are in search of a highly driven and seasoned business development professional with experience in Issuing payments solutions.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of sales within any of the following Financial Institution or payments segment:

Global, National, Super Regional, Regional, Community, Canadian FI’s, Digital Partnership/Fintech or Global Service Providers.

This role is part of the larger Value-Added Services Sales function. Internally, the role requires collaboration with a wide range of cross-functional teams, including Generalist Sellers, Sales Operations, Product, Strategy, Client Services, Digital Partners, and Marketing. Moderate to extensive travel is required for attendance of client meetings, conferences, and partner events.

Key Responsibilities:

• You demonstrate a deep understanding of the payment’s ecosystem, specifically Issuer and payment needs, emerging trends, regulatory changes, and the specific operational challenges these clients face.
• You will develop/demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Visa's solutions and their application for Issuing clients.
• Actively prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities within assigned segment.
• Identify high potential Issuing clients to target and cultivate relationships with key decision-makers within these organizations.
• Ensure a high level of client/prospect satisfaction through proactive outreach with relevant insights and regular follow-ups.
• Partner with the Generalist Sales and Sales Engineering teams to prepare proposals, presentations, and other sales materials that highlight Visa solutions' technical capabilities and advantages to address client needs.
• Develop and execute sales strategies tailored to Issuers that align with Visa’s Purpose to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
• Successfully structure, negotiate, and close deals, ensuring that client needs are met.
• Ensure timely and accurate updates on sales activities are captured in Microsoft Dynamics, offering Insight into market trends and competitive analysis.
• Work collaboratively with various teams, including Product, Client Services, Finance and Technology, to ensure optimal client experience and continuous product improvement.
• Promote an understanding of critical success factors to achieving Issuing solutions revenue objectives.
• Provide input into design and implementation of sales collateral, general marketing and promotional activities and materials to ensure increased awareness of VAS objectives and priorities.

Essential Functions

• Accountable for achieving the Issuing Solutions, inclusive of all Issuer-wide Value-Added Services (i.e., Network, Post Purchase, Authentication, Risk, Identity, Data products, etc.) booking and revenue lines through collaboration and partnership with Account Executives through acquisition of net-new customers or upsell of existing clients.
• Acquisition of new clients and retention/growth of existing clients in partnership with market product teams.
• Understand clients’ complex challenges/problems and uses of Visa technology to drive solutions with said technology.
• Champion and lead from the front with Visa’s value-based sales methodology, post-sale commercialization, mutual success planning with clients and across Visa to ensure client outcomes and Visa revenue realization.
• Partner with the sales team to prepare proposals, presentations, and other sales materials that highlight our solutions' technical capabilities and advantages.
• Engage with internal cross functional teams including Product Management, Product Development, Client Support and Product Marketing to relay market feedback and provide input into the design of new solutions.
• Identify, qualify, and quantify market specific opportunities in close cooperation with local relationship management and product teams.

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.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD)
• You have relevant business development/ sales experience

Preferred Qualifications

• You have 15 or more years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA)

• You have extensive industry expertise, knowledge of financial controls and legal impacts of contract management.

• You have a minimum of 15 years business experience with related sales and client management experience.

• You have a proven track record of successful sales and relationship management with proven ability to interact with C level executives within client organizations.

• You have a proven ability to manage & grow internal and external resources and cross functional relationships.

• You have a proven ability negotiating business agreements and aptitude to develop new business partnerships.

• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with high level of success/achievement.

• You demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to communicate across all levels of an organization.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Ability to travel up to 30%.

If you are a highly motivated and experienced sales leader with a passion for innovation and delivering quality solutions to clients, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity! We are open to candidates who are proximate to our office hubs:

Visa Office Locations:

• Austin

• Atlanta

• Denver

• Ashburn

• Lehi

• Bellevue