Director Marketing Category

at  visa

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

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES

Lead and further develop the Marketing Category
Provide an overall functional leadership to and line management of the team
Act as Sourcing Business Partner to the Marketing team with end-to-end accountabilities, leading from the front and ensuring the back-end process efficiencies.
Lead strategic high-value, complex marketing sourcing events
Establish and effectively manage the relationships with key marketing agencies and contribute towards the strategic development of the regional digital marketing strategy
Support continues development of the team to meet growing business expectations
Ensure design and execution of Category strategies, plans and projects.
Deliver financial benefits, cost savings, cost avoidance, revenue contribution, and other added values to the business through innovation in Category approaches
Embed and deliver on CSR targets, Sustainability & Supplier Diversity
Drive continues improvements and digitalisation, working close with the business and colleagues in the regional and global teams
Contribute to the evolution and overall success of the Visa CEMEA Sourcing.

ROLE SUMMARY

The role holder will be responsible for the functional and team leadership, end-to-end Category Management including Strategy and Planning, Governance, Strategic Sourcing, Key Suppliers, Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnership, ensuring end-to-end accountability for stakeholders’ experience and contribution to building CEMEA Sourcing team positive brand.

GENERAL KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Understand business, Marketing strategy, plans and priorities
Know the spend, supplier landscape, leading practices, and opportunities.
Develop and align regional category strategic roadmap and sourcing plan (the pipeline).
Drive execution of powerful sourcing strategies, for financial benefits realisation
Work with Legal teams to build relevant contract templates library
Support business to optimize demand and specifications
Build and deploy Preferred Supplier Lists (PSL) and manage the Tail spend
Ensure that all projects (RFx) are developed and executed with regional and local countries engagement, following project methodology and governance
Hands-on lead large size sourcing initiatives (RFx) in collaboration with the business
Report on the Category and team progress and performance, using smart objectives and agreed key metrics.
Partner with the CEMEA Sourcing Leadership Team members and contribute to the transformation of the function, to meet current and future business requirements