Sr. Director, Global Sourcing Center of Excellence

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 – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. 

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Job Description

Visa Global Sourcing  
Global Sourcing manages Visa’s end-to-end sourcing and procurement of goods and services as part of the broader Finance organization. The Center of Excellence team in Global Sourcing enables the organization’s success through people, process, program and operational management best practices.   

Overview 

The Senior Director – Center of Excellence, is a key leadership position in Visa’s Global Sourcing Organization to deliver sustainable value by enabling successful partnerships. This is an integral role, driving the Center of Excellence’s core goal to be a performance-enabling powerhouse for our stakeholders, providing support across categories and other functions and enabling Visa’s Global Sourcing Organization, facilitating a real change, continued development of and transformation towards best-in-class performance across sourcing and procurement teams.   

This candidate should be a proven thought leader responsible for the strategy and enablement of a multi-region/function sourcing organization, through Organizational Strategy and Planning,  Supplier Management, Reporting & Analytics, Strategic Projects such as Mergers & Acquisitions and Continuous Improvement. The ideal leader for this role will exhibit a strong sense of urgency and agility, with the capability to succinctly articulate issues and alternatives to propel decision-making processes while meeting departmental and functional objectives.   

Essential Functions: 

• Lead the Global Supplier Management Program team and center-led strategy across multiple divisions and regions to provide enhanced value to Visa through deeper partnerships with suppliers   

• Segment supply base to ensure differentiated focus with most strategic and impactful supplier relationships, bringing increased value creation through the delivery of goods and services in accordance with contracted service levels, performance management, ESG initiatives, innovation, category management and strategy standards along with fact based supplier management tools and templates, and Sourcing in alignment with compliance and regulatory requirements (e.g. FFIEC, FBA, Bank of England etc.)  

• Develop and manage organizational Reporting and Analytics capabilities, delivering dashboards on metrics such as but not limited to Savings, Spend, Productivity, Cycle Time and Key Performance Indicators, ensuring Global Sourcing and its stakeholders have the data and insights to make rapid and effective decisions with an emphasis on accuracy  

• Drive Sourcing’s transformation roadmap and forward-looking strategic plans. Build a future-forward vision that spans across people, processes, and systems, focused on continuous improvement and automation.   

• Deliver intelligence on external best practices for Sourcing in support of Visa’s efforts in ongoing maturity enhancement  

• Manage project implementations, timelines, deliverables and change management from internal customers and stakeholders for Global Sourcing Center of Excellence initiatives identify roadblocks to success and solution options to move forward  

• Take ownership for leading local teams in the execution of the integration of acquired companies which includes end-to-end integration process and activities for Sourcing and Finance teams from initial development of integration plans with milestones and timelines, to execution of the tactical plans, to providing a clear roadmap for ongoing ownership to complete the integration.    

• Engage and establish business partnerships with cross functional leadership including sourcing leadership, global and regional category directors, relevant stakeholders and business partners across Visa to collaborate, influence, and drive Center of Excellence programs and initiatives 

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.