Account Executive, UK Clients

  • Full-time

Company Description

Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?

Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in.

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Think you know us?

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

If you think you could support Visa as an Account Executive, UK Clients we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

Job Description

What’s it all about?

We’re looking for someone to join the UK Client Engagement team, to manage strategic relationships with a portfolio of Issuing Clients. This role is focused on building deep partnerships with a diverse set of clients, promoting and securing the use of Visa products and services to grow our mutual businesses. These issuing clients operate within the BIN Sponsorship space, working with a range of partners to launch new card/payment programs.

What we expect of you, day to day

  • Ensure the retention of Visa’s existing business with assigned clients and proactively develop incremental business streams.
  • Meet targets for net revenue, profitable payments volume and other strategic objectives.
  • Work alongside clients, liaising with multiple stakeholders with the aim of growing the business through collaboration, building high quality relationships.
  • Identify client opportunities for new products/services enabling business improvement and growth in line with the clients’ business objectives and priorities.
  • Engage with cross-functional colleagues ensuring teams such as product, marketing, client services and consulting are appropriately involved and supporting client development.
  • Demonstrate good knowledge of all Visa products and services, to identify opportunities aligned to clients’ requirements.
  • Contribute to the development of the overarching strategy for the clients and Visa.
  • Champion Visa with clients and champion the clients within Visa and build deep mutual understanding of goals and needs.

Qualifications

Thinking about careers differently...

At Visa we are passionate to offer our employees compelling career growth opportunities. As such, even if you don’t have experience of this function there could be skills or experiences which would transfer well.

For this role the key skills required are...

  • Previous sales management and/or account management experience.
  • Experience of Fintechs and high-growth companies would be an advantage.
  • A curious mind-set with excellent knowledge of the payments business and financial services.
  • Commercial understanding, the ability to identify opportunities and propose solutions.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
  • Proven influencing, selling and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage multiple work-streams simultaneously, meeting set deadlines.

Additional Information

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

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