Director Marketing Category

Company Description

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 â 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.

Job Description

Visa CEMEA Sourcing

Visa CEMEA Sourcing has an opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced and results-driven Procurement leader to join CEMEA Sourcing Leadership Team and help us to lead the change, further develop and shape the regional function and become a strategic partner to the business. Are you interested in the transformation and digital journey Do you enjoy working in cross-functional teams Can you bring leading practice thinking and solutions Are you experienced and ambitious Category Lead If this inspires and sounds familiar, please contact us because we would like to talk to you!

Role Summary

The role holder will be responsible for the functional and team leadership, end-to-end Category Management including Strategy and Planning, Governance, Strategic Sourcing, Key Suppliers, Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnership, ensuring end-to-end accountability for stakeholdersâ experience and contribution to building CEMEA Sourcing team positive brand.

Main Accountabilities

Lead and further develop the Marketing Category

Provide an overall functional leadership to and line management of the team

Act as Sourcing Business Partner to the Marketing team with end-to-end accountabilities, leading from the front and ensuring the back-end process efficiencies.

Lead strategic high-value, complex marketing sourcing events

Establish and effectively manage the relationships with key marketing agencies and contribute towards the strategic development of the regional digital marketing strategy

Support continues development of the team to meet growing business expectations

Ensure design and execution of Category strategies, plans and projects.

Deliver financial benefits, cost savings, cost avoidance, revenue contribution, and other added values to the business through innovation in Category approaches

Embed and deliver on CSR targets, Sustainability & Supplier Diversity

Drive continues improvements and digitalisation, working close with the business and colleagues in the regional and global teams

Contribute to the evolution and overall success of the Visa CEMEA Sourcing.

General Key Responsibilities

Understand business, Marketing strategy, plans and priorities

Know the spend, supplier landscape, leading practices, and opportunities.

Develop and align regional category strategic roadmap and sourcing plan (the pipeline).

Drive execution of powerful sourcing strategies, for financial benefits realisation

Work with Legal teams to build relevant contract templates library

Support business to optimize demand and specifications

Build and deploy Preferred Supplier Lists (PSL) and manage the Tail spend

Ensure that all projects (RFx) are developed and executed with regional and local countries engagement, following project methodology and governance

Hands-on lead large size sourcing initiatives (RFx) in collaboration with the business

Report on the Category and team progress and performance, using smart objectives and agreed key metrics.

Partner with the CEMEA Sourcing Leadership Team members and contribute to the transformation of the function, to meet current and future business requirements

Sub-Categories in scope

Media with focus on agencies and social media management

Content & Production

BTL, Sponsorship & PR

Insights

Digital Marketing

Communications

This role offers a great opportunity to engage with large number of stakeholders and peers within the Sourcing community, to drive enhancements of the ways of working, delivering efficiencies, financial and other values to the business.

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

Basic Qualifications:

10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelorâs Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelorâs Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD

Educated to degree level with postgraduate procurement accreditation (MCIPS or MIIAPS)

Strong experience as Procurement Head Of Marketing or Marketing Category Lead, with advanced procurement and sourcing technical and analytical skills and strong knowledge of how good looks like, specifically in the marketing and communication arena.

Broad experience in all listed sub-categories, suppliers and market dynamics, business models, contract negotiations, implementation and supplier relationship management

Track record of Category Management deployment, generally and within Marketing, ability to train others

Experience from the sales/bid-support and vendor management is a plus

Project Leadership skills with experience in delivering large and complex Sourcing, Outsourcing and Managed Services projects.

Experience in working in complex, high and low maturity global and regional organizations

Excellent people management skills building collaborative and high performing teams

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Demonstrable influencing skills and senior stakeholder management, with credibility up to CxO level

Energy, pace and an impeccable track record of delivery

Additional Information

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.