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Advancing the Olympic Spirit Sport unites people, communities and nations. It enriches people’s lives and creates economic development opportunities. In today’s world, where brand and trust mean so much, the Olympic Games reflect those equities found at Visa – worldwide acceptance, reliability, … read moreversatility and leadership. Sponsoring the Olympic Games makes good business sense for Visa and our clients. Impacting Lives Sponsorships, like Visa’s commitment and support to the Olympic Movement, National Olympic Committees and national teams, have helped ensure the continued success of the Olympic Games. Visa has provided direct economic support to stage the Games themselves and provided untold direct support to thousands of Olympic athletes through support of National Olympic Committees. Additionally, Visa supports Olympic teams and individual athletes through its global Team Visa program, providing financial support, life-skills training and valuable marketing exposure in pursuit of their Olympic Dreams. Building Business, Uniting the World Financial institutions and merchants benefit greatly from Visa’s Olympic Games marketing platform, which they use to connect with cardholders on a level that goes beyond commerce. During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, 573 financial institutions and 491 merchant partners around the world participated directly in Visa Olympic Games promotional programs. Visa was the first sponsor to mount destination marketing programs linked to an Olympic Games host city. For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Visa partnered with Tourism Vancouver and Tourism Whistler to promote both domestic and international travel to these beautiful destinations. Payments at the Games At every Olympic Games, Visa is responsible for creating and managing the entire payment system infrastructure across all Olympic venues, including hundreds of point-of-sale acceptance devices and a dedicated ATM network at competition and non-competition venues, including the Main Press Centre, the International Broadcast Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village. As a service to its cardholders at the Olympic Games, Visa provides multilingual emergency services and general assistance for cardholders.
Job Description
The purpose of this role is to help Visa Southern and Eastern Africa (SEA) capture opportunities in Cross-Border (XB) payments, develop and ensure execution of a robust XB action plan for top SEA markets. It will be the market focal point to work closely with the global/MSC cross-border function team and responsible to crystalise our overall in-market cross-border strategy, champion the excellent execution of that strategy with market leading solutions, superior marketing, advisory services and support, by coordinating and collaborating closely with teams across Products, Marketing, VCA, Sales, CS. The role will synergize various key initiatives within SEA, support the client facing teams by providing data analytics-driven insights, optimizing the payment success rates, and ensuring compliance with rules
The role is expected to:
Partner with the regional cross-border MSC and in-market cross-functional teams to use the existing data assets and analytical models in order to help Clients increase their cross-border volumes
Applying best practices, proven approaches and working instruments from different markets all over the world to grow XB business in the subregion
Identify together with Country Managers SEA -specific XB-related opportunities and engage local teams, CEMEA MSC and Global Cross-Border teams to find optimal solutions
Lead and executing of XBAC and Ultra-High Spenders Initiatives with top issuers in SEA
Lead the development and execution of cross-functional sub-regional SEA XB strategy
Adapt CEMEA XB payments strategy and programs for the market, develop tactical plans to achieve defined goals, design effective client relationships and business development strategies
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
A minimum of 5-6 years relevant experience in payments, technology or financial service industry
Ideal candidate is one who is knowledgeable of or has keen interest to learn about Visa’s Cross-Border business and is interested in gaining hands on experience of leading complex cross-functional initiative
Able to define strategic needs of our Cross-Border business and provide appropriate management reporting to senior leadership team
Experience in leading, directing and facilitating complex projects that drive change management in the organization
Proven customer service orientation, interpersonal, organizational and communication skills
Excellent verbal and written communication capabilities demonstrating success in conveying messages across a diverse set of stakeholders
Capability of working competently with different market areas.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills and project management capabilities
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