Senior Manager – Visa Direct Specialized Sales

Visa Visa · Fintech · San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

Senior Manager for Visa Direct Specialized Sales in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, responsible for driving sales, building a pipeline, and generating revenue by pitching financial institutions, merchants, and fintechs. The role involves managing the sales cycle, developing sales strategies, and acting as a subject matter expert on Visa Direct's APIs and SDKs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Achieve annual sales goals of Visa Direct, in partnership with local product and leads.
  2. Take clients through the sales cycle from prospecting to solutioning to deal structure to contract.
  3. Develop sales strategy for sales acceleration, including determining high potential client targets, use cases and verticals, etc.
  4. Develop a lead acquisition plan primarily for cross-border money movement opportunities.
  5. Responsible for closing a portfolio of high-profile initiatives for moving money, facilitating cross-border low value payments to real time payment networks and ACH settlement hubs between banks, digital banks, P2P apps and wallets, remitters, gaming platforms, online brokerage companies, financial institutions, and many other financial players. Additionally, there is a heavy weighting on active prospecting new players that are currently not in the pipeline.

Skills

Required

  • Sales strategy development
  • Client relationship management
  • Pipeline management
  • Cross-border payments knowledge
  • Financial services sales
  • API and SDK knowledge
  • Market analysis
  • Prospecting
  • Deal structuring
  • Contract negotiation
  • Communication skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Treasury banking experience
  • Payment rails knowledge (MT ISO 20022, MT ISO 15022)
  • FX and multi-currency settlement understanding

Nice to have

  • Thought leadership
  • Agile environment experience
  • Executive presence

What the JD emphasized

  • drive sales of Visa Direct in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic
  • building a strong sales pipeline
  • deliver incremental revenue to Visa
  • Achieve annual sales goals
  • Take clients through the sales cycle
  • Develop sales strategy
  • Develop a lead acquisition plan
  • closing a portfolio of high-profile initiatives
  • active prospecting new players
  • Ensure the number and quality of leads
  • Develop an effective pipeline of prospects
  • Progress opportunities
  • Close business
  • Coach client to delivery
  • Communicate
  • SME for Visa Direct
  • deep dive into use cases
  • explain our full stack of APIs and SDKs
  • lead each project identifying roadblocks and gaps for faster time to market
  • execute the go-to-market strategy
  • 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
  • Minimum 8 years of experience with payments, or digital solutions
  • Prior payments sales experience in the financial services industry (banks and fintech's)
  • Proven record of building and managing a sales pipeline, exceeding revenue goals
  • Extensive experience in selling into banks, acquirers, merchants, remitters, technology enablers and fintech's, preferably in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.