Senior Manager, Visa Direct Solutioning

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

What's it all about?

The selected candidate will be providing consultancy services to Visa Direct Enablers (Acquirers, PSP, processors) and key merchants, to identify, define, and initiate execution of real-time payment technical solutions - keeping in mind evolving market, client, and consumer needs with the objective of driving significant future market growth for Visa.

The candidate will be responsible for enablement and growth of regional originating clients, as well as supporting leading strategic initiatives to ensure we accelerate time to revenue and are able to drive further volume. Must possess a unique combination of technical skills - deep understanding of payments processing, banking systems, consumer behaviour and Visa’s business – and outstanding client facing skills.

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Engage European Acquirers, PSPs, Processors, Merchants, and deliver agreed targets for Visa Direct enabler and originator enablement and growth
• Work with clients and partners to drive enablement and setup optimisation that will facilitate revenue growth
• Drive definition of technical solutions that meet partner and Visa growth objectives
• Contribute to the optimisation of the current delivery framework and processes to accelerate time to revenue – identifying trends and proposing solutions for common client pain points
• Lead consultancy on best practices covering all aspects of Visa Direct origination for card, account and wallets, cross border solutions and corporate payments via B2B Connect
• Contribute to the product development, identifying areas of improvements and implementing solutions
• Project manage and communicate the enablement and optimisation of new and existing clients
• Report against OKRs of their portfolio of clients

• Mid to senior level experience in a Programme/Product role for new payment product technologies and capabilities – including technical/commercial/consultancy.
• Payments / money movement field is essential. Visa Direct knowledge highly desirable.
• Experience simplifying the complex and removing commercial and technical barriers to delivery
• Passion for future of payments and customer experience
• Experience working across European markets in the payments sector
• Ability to balance complex mix of interpersonal skills, technical proficiency, outstanding communication skills and commercial judgement to drive outcomes
• Independent day- to-day working
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbal
• Driven, resilient, with attention to detail and positive under pressure
• Excellent analytical skills and exposure to BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI etc.)
• Solid understanding of modern technologies (e.g. APIs, cloud solutions etc.)
• Excellent Programme/Project Management skills
• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle

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.