Senior Manager 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.

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Job Description

What's it all about?

Business Development Team in Central Eastern Europe focuses on growth of categories growth in 8 markets being Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia. We lead our cluster efforts in the areas of sales and proposition for commercial cards, SME/ Corporate business, transactional banking, money movement (cross border solutions that can enable funds delivery across various networks such as card networks, Automated Clearing Houses and real time payments networks, treasury services). These specific business lines are seen as significant drivers for Visa’s future growth.

The role will primarily focus on driving business development efforts in Czech Republic, in the following areas:

· Visa Business and Visa Commercial cards solutions delivery

· Visa’s money movement initiatives

· Support in delivery of Visa core business objectives

What we expect of you, day to day.

· Work with local and regional resources to develop and execute strategies to increase payments volume and secure long-term revenue with key Issuers and Partners in the areas of responsibility

· Use your network to find, develop and manage commercial relationships with issuers, fintechs and partners in the region, driving commercial products and money movement services in close collaboration with sales heads and account executives

· Utilize a consultative sales approach that ensures that the client’s business objectives are met and their performance metrics are optimized

· Develop a solid projects pipeline, drive conversion over time and secure revenues

· Engage with local and regional internal stakeholders in order to secure resources needed to execute strategy and opportunities

· Develop collateral, internal and external product content, collaborating with local and regional product partners and other stakeholders in the new flows area (commercial, money movement)

· Coordinate and own the local key commercial and money movement sales pipeline, ensuring all opportunities are properly reported in CRM tools

Qualifications

· Proven experience and knowledge of financial/banking services/cash management/payments having SME sector and/or micro businesses sector view would be a plus

· Business experience in sales and/or relationship management roles would be an asset

· Demonstrable knowledge of the payments industry landscape

· Creativity and out of the box thinking

· Highly developed relationship management skills with a deep sales orientation

· Ability to develop, lead, close and grow competitive sales efforts

· Ability to effectively engage with and grow a wide range of internal and external stakeholders

· Ability to influence people, plan, prioritize and track execution across cross-functional matrix and with external partners

· Communication skills, both written and verbal

· Degree level education is desirable, or equivalent professional experience

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.