Senior Manager, Issuing VAS - Specialized Sales
Full-time Job Family Group: Sales and Business Development
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
This Senior Manager, Issuing VAS - Specialized Sales role is part of the larger Value-Added Services Sales function, with expected focus on the sale of services related to payments and account to account transactions in the market, and potentially over time expand to other products and services. Internally, the role requires collaboration with a wide range of cross functional teams, including but is not limited to Generalist Sellers, Sales Operations, Product, Strategy, Client Services, Digital Partners, and Marketing.
Key Responsibilities
Demonstrate a deep understanding of the payment’s ecosystem, specifically Issuers needs, emerging trends, open banking, real time payments, regulatory changes, and the specific operational challenges players in the payment’s ecosystem face. Develop/ demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Visa's solutions and their application for clients. Actively prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities within assigned territory. Identify high potential clients to target and cultivate relationships with key decision-makers within these organizations. Ensure high levels of client/ prospect satisfaction through proactive outreach with relevant insights and regular follow-ups. Partner with the Generalist Sales team 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 the assigned 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 to driving and achieving the Payments and Account to Account Solutions, potentially inclusive of other Issuer Value Added Services over time, booking and revenue lines through collaboration and partnership with Account Executives and Account Managers 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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
5 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Additional Information
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Senior Manager, Issuing VAS - Specialized Sales
Amman, Jordan * Full-time
