Visa Government Solutions - Sales Director - West Africa

Visa Government Solutions - Sales Director - West Africa

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.

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Job Description

Visa is seeking an experienced payment professional to join the CEMEA Visa Government Solutions team as a Sales Director for the West Africa region. This role will have the following responsibilities:

• Expand and deepen our public sector sales strategy and delivery in the region, including developing a list of prioritized client and solution opportunities
• Establish and strengthen our relationship with key public sector stakeholders including federal, state, and local agencies
• Identify and engage potential partners in the form of issuers, program managers, processors and fintechs who will strengthen our government solution propositions and build sales pipelines, business proposals, business structuring, P&L management and execute excellent sales parameters to close opportunities
• Develop and execute sales strategies and account plans to increase sales volume and market share, expand product category visibility and exceed defined product and corporate objectives
• Identify local use cases and requirements for our solutions team to incorporate into our proposition roadmaps
• Work closely with internal stakeholders including the Government Engagement team to align on our government outreach strategy and targets, approach to educating decision makers and influencers on how Visa can support.
• Partner with our marketing and communication teams to position Visa as a leader in the payments industry and a resource for government agencies
• Provide ongoing support of RFP responses and overseeing program performance
• Continuously review market landscape and recommend, develop, and implement new creative approaches to growing the Visa business
• Proactively identify and solve complex problems that impact Government sales management and direction of the business

The right candidate in addition must have:

• A broad network in the public administration space for your region • Robust understanding of how public sector sales and public agencies operate • Experience with and understanding of how decisions are made by the public sector and government agencies, specifically public procurement • Strong business development and consultative sales experience, with the ability to educate a wide range of stakeholders on Visa capabilities, clearly business oriented and able to push business development and produce business cases • Previous experience in managing or leading public sector teams or experience in lobbying public sector stakeholders

Qualifications

Education Background

The candidate should possess a degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science/engineering, law or related fields with a demonstrated public sector sales background

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.