Sr. Director, Marketing Services, KSA, Bahrain & Oman

Qualifications

• What you will need:
• Minimum 15 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 12 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD)
• Proven leader with a track record of building and developing diverse, top performing and highly engaged teams
• Independent, self-starter with a proven record of driving complex strategies across large teams
• Strong relationship building experience along with the ability to collaborate and work across countries and various business units to execute on a strategy and develop a new business
• Strong influencing skills across a matrix environment
• Ability to structure and manage complex projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Able to identify issues, conduct analyses, synthesize findings, and make recommendations
• Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior level executives, excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
• Proven ability to build and develop a goal-oriented culture and continually raise the bar for team achievements
• Executes decisions with the goals and vision of the company in mind, acts as a representative of the company brand both internally and externally
• Client marketing, consulting, sales, or other client-facing experience required
• Ability to quickly understand market/client business strategies and needs, and use that to identify opportunities for joint marketing programmes that deliver growth for the client and Visa
• Prior experience identifying, scoping, pitching, and advising Clients on data-driven marketing strategies preferred, in market or in region experience preferred
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, strong analytic skills, ability to translate data and insights into marketing strategies
• Deep understanding of the payments marketing landscape and working knowledge of payment product economics preferred
• Comfortable operating in ‘white space’, proactively pursuing new ideas/capabilities, building out a “playbook” approach enabling scalable/ repeatable solutions
• Strong financial acumen and ability to partner with all divisions of Finance.
• 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.