Senior Sales Leader
- Full-time
- Job Family Group: Sales
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
Job Description
Team Summary
Visa’s Cybersource is a market leading e-commerce platform for acquirers and merchants, enabling them to transact securely both online and off-line. The platform provides enhanced fraud management capabilities and solutions that facilitate all payment types. One single connection to Cybersource can enable merchants to conduct global business without the merchant having to integrate to local payment providers / methods one by one, significantly improving their go-to-market speed. This works in harmony with Cybersource's Decision Manager, the world's largest fraud detection radar allowing clients to combat fraud effectively. Cybersource has moved from being a digital online platform to an omni-channel platform, enabling digital transactions and in-app and in-store transactions, providing significant value to Visa’s clients, whether they’re large merchants, fintech’s and the world’s largest digital wallets and marketplaces.
Cybersource is a leading payment solutions platform in SMT. Many of the largest ecommerce businesses across the region depend on Cybersource to provide uninterrupted commerce and superior customer experiences to their users while managing risk to global standards. Cybersource has been identified as a strategic pillar to Visa’s global strategy to create more innovative merchant solutions and has significant executive sponsorship to invest in its growth.
Job Description and Responsibilities
Drive Cybersource revenue and management objectives for SMT. Achieve objectives by leading strategic sales alignment with Merchant Sales & Acceptance (MS&A) teams, regional and global Cybersource teams and other Visa departments. This is a senior role and reports to the Head of MS&A for SMT with dual line reporting into the Asia Pacific Cybersource Head.
Success metrics include revenue & transaction growth, market share, client success and other related KPIs for Cybersource Sales as agreed to in the Visa Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
Lead the local Cybersource team with both direct reports and indirect teams. Be an active member of the country MS&A and regional CYBS teams. Ensure success in coordination with other teams.
Drive coordinated Cybersource offering in the regional partnering with and overseeing other functional activities (e.g., Marketing, Fraud Analytics and Client Services).
Develop and deliver Cybersource AOP, multi-year plan, and sales performance management KPIs including pipeline management, conversion, time to revenue etc.
Manage close working partnerships with Visa stakeholders – business development teams, Product, Risk, Corporate Relations, Legal, etc.
Drive execution of strategy and build greater understanding of Cybersource opportunities.
You will need to be a highly effective communicator including at the CXO level who can work effectively in a complex, matrixed environment. You will need to be adept at developing a robust internal and external network of relevant global business leaders to help you execute effectively. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of a commerce with significant potential for growth.
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
• Experience in driving merchant, acquiring, or payment solutions with a deep understanding of the payments industry and SMT market landscape. Relationships across key players would be valuable. Sound perspective on government and regulatory environment is an asset.
• 12+ years business development and/or solutions leadership experience, leading teams through disruptive growth.
• Experience in developing and tracking client-centric strategies within a matrixed organization.
• Outstanding open communication and collaboration, actively promote an environment of inclusion and diversity of thought, proactively limit or mitigate unconscious biases, honest and direct communication.
• Innovation driven: up-to-date with latest payments trends, champions bold ideas and new ways of doing things, ask challenging and stretching questions.
• Solution focused: connect the dots and leverage Visa best practices, unafraid to make timely decisions in ambiguous, high pressure situations, quick to adjust/recover and reset priorities.
• Strategically driven leader with hands-on mentality, curiosity is part of your DNA whilst being results oriented. Experience developing and executing on strategic business plans.
• Multinational experience and willingness to travel. Flexibility, cultural adaptability and ability to navigate complexity is required to succeed in a matrixed environment managing varied stakeholders. The role requires the ability to work across cultures and industries.
• Graduate caliber, MBA preferred.