Director, Head of Buyer and Seller Solutions

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Director, Head of Buyer Solutions, Central Europe

Drive Central European Buyer Solutions thought leadership, strategic direction and execution. Navigate and lead through continued change in a constantly evolving market, fueled through emerging FinTechs, the maturation of Open Banking, implementation of PSD2 and significant developments in the new payment flows and RTP space. Work hand in hand with the Business Development organisation, Consulting and Marketing to win new business with financial institutions and new partners alike. Lead and motivate a team of solutions experts in line with Visa’s Leadership Principles, reflecting clear prioritization, strong stakeholder alignment and using key principles of collaborative, agile workforce management.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Evolving and operationalising the Buyer Solutions strategy and priorities across Central Europe in order to drive growth
• Acting as the connective tissue, ensuring that the evolutionary development of current Product capabilities complements future, non-evolutionary Product capabilities currently in early development
• Building and maintaining a strong network across functions, connecting the dots as new capabilities which could benefit Buyer Solutions are built
• Establish and manage positive, beneficial, and constructive relationships with client stakeholders, and execute product strategy with deep understanding of client’s business objectives and strategy.
• Build, own and deliver a pipeline of initiatives as aligned with local regional leadership team
• Supporting local Debit, Credit and Prepaid client RFPs and strategic partnerships
• Leveraging Visa’s regional and global knowledge base (e.g. best practices, performance metrics, market insights, economics)
• Demonstrating subject matter expertise on technology and innovation trends both internally and externally, to guide global strategy and initiatives.
• Lead a team of innovative and engaged individuals focused on delivering best in class solutions to address preference and anticipated needs of local customers as well as all stakeholders across the geographies.
• Drive performance management, career development, recruitment, succession planning and talent assessment for the team

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.