Regional Managing Director, Fbl

**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.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

The RMD will have end to end leadership accountability for the growth of Visa s business across the France, Belgium, Luxembourg Region _(FBL Cluster)._ The RMD will lead a cross-functional leadership team to identify and drive market initiatives and strategies within the region that aid Visa Europe s accelerated growth.

The role will drive engagement with all stakeholders within Visa s ecosystem, bringing commercial judgement, influence, and rigor to grow Visa s position in the cluster, while also leading on some pan-European initiatives. The RMD will operate at C-Suite level with clients and lead key strategic market and technology developments. The successful individual will be an authentic, inspiring, and courageous leader, unwavering in their passion to drive growth and harness the capabilities and assets at Visa - the brand, our products and our people. The role will report to the Chief Executive of the European Region.

**Role Overview**
- Work closely with the Europe CEO and the Europe Leadership Team to shape and execute the wider regional strategy, with a goal of doubling the size of the business over the next five years.
- Design and execute the strategic growth plan for the cluster as part of the broader Europe growth strategy.
- Lead the business to deliver ambitious growth and continued financial performance.
- Influence at a senior level with all clients as a trusted advisor and true partner
- a thought leader who is curious and understands our clients business, growth goals, challenges and strategic objectives.
- Expand and utilize a network at the most senior level within key client organizations and the market, seeking common opportunities for growth.
- Provide inspirational leadership to the cluster by continuing to build, develop and lead a high performing and diverse team. Be a talent ambassador by driving talent development in the region and sponsoring Visa s employer brand activity in the FBL and broader Europe market.
- Represent Visa externally on a regular basis through interactions with key clients, the press, domestic regulators, government agencies, consumers, merchants and the broader fintech - emerging digital ecosystem.
- Work with the cluster Client Council to ensure a robust approach to decision making in the payments ecosystem, leveraging insight and analysis from the Client Council and keeping pace with the regulatory agenda.

**Personal Characteristics**
- An intellectually curious, humble leader with a high degree of compassion and the ability to engage, enable and inspire others.
- Analytical, curious, driven and able to get up to speed quickly and become an expert in all aspects of the market.
- Creative and resilient in overcoming barriers and unexpected roadblocks. Courageous in spirit, driving change through innovation.
- An authentic leader, that creates an inclusive environment where individuals thrive, can be themselves and enable the business to reach its ambitious goals.
- High personal standards of ethics and integrity towards employees, stakeholders, and customers.
- Diversity of thought and experience. Continually seeks new perspectives and feedback, takes an inclusive approach, and engages diverse points of view. High levels of learning-agility, curious by nature.
- Entrepreneurial and comfortable with ambiguous and change-led environments
- self-confident with an authentic style that gravitates to championing change.
- Committed to building a community through Visa Leadership Principles

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.

**Qualifications**
**Experience Needed**
- Deep commercial experience, including significant experience in an executive leadership role within the broader payments industry or adjacent sectors where technology features strongly in the ecosystem.
- Leadership of an enterprise or the commercial functions of a busin