Account Executive Commercial Solutions, Corporate Sales

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

Visa’s Large Middle Market (LMM) sales team is an integral part of the Visa Commercial Solutions Organization responsible for managing and growing B2B payment volume through sales, optimization and retention strategies with Financial Institutions that issue commercial payment solutions. The LMM team supports over 100 Visa commercial card issuers and supports Visa Financial Institutions (FI) that wish to launch a commercial card program. The LMM team is also responsible for the sale of net new Visa commercial card solutions to banks and corporations. The B2B payment landscape is a global opportunity of $120T and our Financial Institution clients are key to the delivery of B2B payment solutions to address this opportunity. The VCS LMM team is a specialized sales group within Visa supporting our internal partners responsible for strategic relationships such as Financial Institutions, Partnerships, Processors and Merchants to name a few.

The VCS LMM team is searching for a results driven sales and business development Account Executive (AE) to drive Visa brand decisions with middle market and large corporate businesses. As a key member of the Commercial Solutions Sales team, the selected candidate will bring leadership, vision and creativity to both guiding and advancing Visa's business development efforts to secure brand decision and drive payment volume growth across the large market, and middle market space.

The AE will be responsible for driving strategic  business development initiatives and plans in key identified areas. They will work cross functionally within Visa to target F500, Visa Merchants and identified corporates to sell the Visa value proposition with the intent to secure Visa brand decisions. The AE will work in tandem with the Product and Partnership team and design, develop and execute go to market sales plans for mutually agreed upon partners, accounts with the goal of delivering payment volume and growth which will be delivered through our FI and Fintech partners.  Responsibilities will include selling commercial card products, platforms, industry partnerships and solutions to the targeted prospects in order to drive commercial payment volume.

The role requires an experienced sales and business development professional who can identify potential opportunities, develop creative tactics and frameworks, and manage the cross-functional teams needed to bring them to fruition.  The team works closely with Visa’s Financial Institution account teams as well as other stakeholders such as Product, Partnerships, Acceptance, Processing, Finance, Marketing, and Visa Consulting & Analytics etc.

Essential Functions:

Segment Expertise:

• Deep understanding of the commercial payments industry including financial institutions, networks, corporate customers and fintechs

• Experience selling financial services, commercial card or  payment solutions to middle market and large market corporations

• Understanding of the buying criteria and decision makers, influences for the purchase of payment solutions within a corporation

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Business Development:

• Direct sales to large and middle market corporations with the purpose of selling Visa value proposition to influence a Visa brand decision for the client’s B2B payments

• Develop and execute a sales strategy to target identified corporations and Visa Merchants to secure Visa brand decision and  grow commercial payment volume, increase revenue and market share.

• Work with cross functional teams to develop strategies to approach Visa Merchant client’s and prospects to secure Visa brand decision. Recommend, develop, and implement new and creative approaches to grow Visa’s brand share. 

Execution:

• Work with cross functional teams to target Visa Merchants and Corporates to develop pla