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.
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**Job Description**:
Job Description and Responsibilities
Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.
Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers.
Visa's innovations enable its bank customers to offer consumers choices, Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products.
From the world's major cities to remote areas without banks, people are increasingly relying on digital currency along with mobile technology to use their money anytime, make purchases online, transfer funds and access basic financial services.
All of which makes their lives easier and helps grow economies.
Behind the Visa brand are our talented employees who continuously raise the bar with innovative solutions and products that deliver the convenience and security of digital currency to more people all over the world.
**Overview,**
**Job Description and Responsibilities**
- Achieve annual sales goals of Visa Direct, in partnership with local product and leads
- Take clients through the sales cycle from prospecting to solutioning to deal structure to contract
- Develop sales strategy for sales acceleration, including determining high potential client targets, use cases and verticals, etc.
- Develop a lead acquisition plan for domestic and cross border money movement opportunities.
- Responsible for closing a portfolio of high-profile initiatives for moving money, facilitating domestic and cross-border low value payments to real time payment networks and ACH settlement hubs between banks, digital banks, P2P apps and wallets, remitters, gaming platforms, online brokerage companies, crypto platforms, financial institutions, and many other financial players.
Additionally, there is a heavy weighting on active prospecting new players that are currently not in the pipeline.
- Ensure the number and quality of leads on the company CRM solution
- Develop an effective pipeline of prospects
- Progress opportunities -demonstrates that you can incrementally move each opportunity through the Client Acquisition methodology, covering off all aspects that it and the sales leadership group require
- Close business -achieve closed contracts with minimum term commitments, in line with the company sales plan.
- Coach client to delivery - you have continued to work the contracted client through the Client Acquisition methodology and fostered a strong client relationship which is then subsequently handed over to Account Management team.
- Communicate - You consistently demonstrate that where appropriate you can be nibble and effective in communicating across the internal and customer organizations to achieve mutual understanding of the opportunity and company goal.
- We will be working in a fast paced, agile environment, so you must be proactive and excel with internal and external partners to ensure we achieve our goals
- You will be the SME for Visa Direct knowledgeable on how our clients commercialize with Visa Direct, deep dive into use cases, explain our full stack of APIs and SDKs, and lead each project identifying roadblocks and gaps for faster time to market.
- Be close to the market, Work with VD Product team to execute the go-to-market strategy and ensure we have an ever-improving right value proposition and product construct to meet client needs
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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.
**Qualifications**:
- BA/BS required.
Post Graduate degree in Business Administration strongly preferred
- Knowledge of SWIFT cross border payments concepts and transaction banking in the cross border payments space and low value (ACH).
- Prior payments sales experience in the financial services industry (banks and fintech