Manager Issuer VAS specialist Seller

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.

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• Develop and manage the pipeline and end‑to‑end sales process for Issuing Solutions in Qatar and Kuwait.
• Manage and meet the targets for Qatar and Kuwait Issuing VAS Sales both on added new revenue and existing revenue.
• Actively prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities within assigned territory.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the payment ecosystem, specifically issuers’ needs, emerging trends, open banking, real‑time payments, regulatory changes, and the operational challenges in the payment ecosystem.
• Develop and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Visa's solutions and their application for clients, particularly Risk and Identity, Network services, Digital and Loyalty solutions.
• Ensure timely and accurate updates on sales activities are captured in Microsoft Dynamics, offering insight into market trends and competitive analysis.
• 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.
• 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 the design and implementation of sales collateral, general marketing and promotional activities and materials to ensure increased awareness of VAS objectives and priorities.
• Accountable for driving and achieving the sales targets for Issuing VAS Solutions, covering Loyalty, Risk & Identity, potentially inclusive of other issuer value‑added services over time, booking revenue lines through collaboration and partnership with Account Executives and Account Managers through acquisition of net‑new customers or upsell of existing clients.
• Acquire new clients and retain/grow existing clients in partnership with market product teams.
• Understand clients' complex challenges/problems and use 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 Product and Sales engineering teams 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, Sales Engineering, 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.

• 5+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree.

• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced…