Senior Director - Head of Direct KBO

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Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

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Visa Direct is a set of solutions that Visa provides to facilitate money movement across cards, accounts and wallets addressing needs of the markets through variety of the use cases (i.e. P2P, B2B. B2C). The product portfolio includes Visa Direct (Card, Account & Wallet) and Currency Cloud.

The Head of Visa Direct KBO leads the Money Movement sales and commercialization responsibilities across all product suites. Responsibilities cover the complete span - sizing the opportunity, thinking through and building the money movement strategy in line with the country business objectives, identifying use cases, engaging internal and external stakeholders to deploy money movement solutions. These new solutions must be deployed keeping in mind the evolving market, client, and consumer needs with the objective of driving significant future market growth for Visa in emerging markets.

The role holder must possess a unique blend of sales, commercialization and implementation skills as well have an intimate understanding of payments, mobile technology, consumer behavior, and Visa’s business. The role will work cross-functionally with other functional teams in the markets and coordinate the product roadmap and learnings from the wider regional money movement teams.

This is a matrixed, cross-functional role – requiring critical organizational and interpersonal skills – as we interface with country teams, specialized product groups, financial institution sales, merchant and acquiring sales, client consulting, marketing, corporate communications, legal, and finance to coordinate the end goal of achieving our business growth objectives. Visa is looking for an individual with demonstrated thought leadership, a strategic business growth mindset and a proven record of success in fast-paced environments with demanding timelines, preferably with experience in enterprise sales for multinational organizations.

• Achieve or exceed aggressive sales and revenue targets for the region
  • Achieve annual sales and revenue goals for Money Movement, in partnership with country Account Executive (AE) teams.
  • Take clients through the sales cycle, from prospecting and solutioning through to deal structure and contracting.
  • Develop business and sales strategy for sales acceleration, including determining high potential client targets, use cases, verticals, etc.
• Develop and execute the strategy including determining high potential markets, use cases, and verticals, and how to deploy our resources for optimal growth
  • Leverage market-sizing study along with regional deep dives to develop the target use cases and clients.
  • Ensure sellers know about and have access to client-ready, legal-approved sales materials.
  • Develop strategies and work with stakeholders on new use cases, including the wider Money Movement product/client teams for regional expansion plans.
  • Identify trends in each market where real-time payments can solve pain points and develop objection handling materials.
• Solution Deployment. Be a thought leader and influencer in developing and deploying the solution in the market. The role holder must manage the full cycle of Money Movement deployment - articulation of the solution's value proposition for internal and external stakeholders, test the plan with key partners, and institute program management for effective deployment and tracking of the agreed plan.
• Go-to-market plans. Success of new solutions/platforms requires seamless execution based on carefully designed market plans. This role leads in defining market plans for Money Movement…