Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology?

Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

You’ll fit right in. 

Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays. 

Think you know us? 

Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. 

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness. 

If you think you could support Visa as a Senior Director, Sales Training & Enablement, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work. 

Visa University is changing the learning culture at Visa and is becoming an integral part of life at the Company where every employee and client will have access to a wealth of resources to enhance their effectiveness. We are a CEO supported start-up team within a large, global organization. We are a team of experts in our respective disciplines, but more importantly, we strive to harness our collective expertise in the most effective way for the benefit of learners. We combine rigor, data, and subject matter expertise with intuition and common sense of what will be most effective for the business. We like to prototype, launch and evaluate. We are comfortable learning from our mistakes.

The Director, Sales Training & Enablement is a member of Visa University’s Market Learning organization reporting to the Senior Director, Sales Training & Enablement. This role is responsible for the effective delivery of Sales/Client facing (product) training, as well as industry and Visa-specific training. This should encompass content design, facilitating engaging live and virtual training programs and conducting 1:1 coaching to drive performance results.

The ideal candidate is passionate about supporting Sales methodology in a multi-faceted function such as consulting, has experience with the sales life cycle, sales technical elements, consultative selling, financial acumen and payments industry.  This individual should also have experience with generating revenue and creating new business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

·       Delivers exceptional learning experiences to participants ensuring a minimum NPS of 70 in region, or globally, as required

·       Champions excellence in facilitation and knowledge to deliver content in a simple and effective way while fostering a safe environment to have productive discussions promoting and inspiring a culture of learning that encourages continuous performance improvement, innovation, and learner engagement

·       Collaborates with partners across VU to ensure seamless delivery of programs including ensuring that classes are set up, technology and AV requirements are functioning, capturing attendance and driving attendee completion of feedback.

·       Uses knowledge of Sales process and methodologies to customize and deliver selling-focused learning solutions aligned with business priorities and initiatives

·       Contributes to the evolution and application of sales competency models for specific business roles related to selling as well as supporting the development of subject matter experts and VU Faculty

·       Establishes themselves as a subject matter expert by leveraging experience with selling tools, communities and social media platforms that enable learner engagement and connection pre- or post-training sessions.

·       Builds a strong knowledge of the business, including internal and external trends, and keeps up to date with Visa’s business, payments industry and regional nuances.

·       Support with coaching Account Executives and Client-facing Sales teams. Supports with creating strategic learning roadmaps for new hires and the ongoing development of existing employees

·       10+ years’ experience in sales with increasing responsibility including managing a P&L, working closely with clients and driving revenue targets, role modeling sales excellence in a technology company, and working with sales organization(s) to deliver educational training solutions to improve sales competencies

·       Passionate about sales and prior sales experience in a worldwide sales organization (e.g. in a technology company)

·       Passionate about training delivery / experience of delivering training and / or presenting and facilitating content to large groups.

·       Deep knowledge of the payments business, preferably Visa’s products and services and regulatory landscape.

·       Knowledge of selling tools (e.g. CRM, Seismic, Mindtickle, Portals), process (e.g. account planning) and skills (e.g. solution/consultative selling, storytelling/communication, white boarding, customer development, opportunity development, selling fundamentals)

·       Strong, polished executive presence and business acumen a must.

·       Experience working with strategic partners and industry and/or regulator subject matter preferred.

·       Passion for teaching and facilitation and providing the best learning experiences for learners.

·       Experience delivering formal or informal learning programs using single channel or blended approaches, including virtual and classroom-based instructor-led training (ILT), peer-to-peer learning, on-the-job learning and eLearning

·       Proven ability to increase learner engagement in course facilitation, social media and communities.

·       Ability to comprehend and translate complex technical concepts into terms that are easy to understand for non-industry audiences in an influential and persuasive manner.

·       Strong communication (written and verbal) and consulting skills.

·       Strong stakeholder management, relationship management and influencing skills at all levels in an organization.

·       Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing content and strategies.

·       Experience quantifying ROI for key initiatives

·       Based in Madrid and requires willingness and ability to travel up to 50% as needed to deliver training.

·       Fluent English required; additional languages to be added based on regional requirement

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.