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Group Overview

The Vietnam Merchant Sales & Acquiring (MS&A) team is responsible for the short and long-term growth of merchant acceptance for Visa’s existing and new Digital products and services. The team is focused on scaling the contactless acceptance, increase ecommerce penetration, deepen the under penetrated segment & geography and enabling a cashless market. The team will achieve its success through working with and through its acquiring partners, key merchant partners and the technology firms driving innovation in the market place. 

Position Summary
The MS&A Business Development Leader is responsible for increasing the merchant sales volume, acquiring revenue and other acceptance indicators by working with various parties including: Visa licensed financial institutions (acquirers), key merchants, payment facilitators, digital wallet operators and payment gateway providers. The primary focus will be to take ownership of the business relationships with key acquirers and merchants through sales efforts aimed at ensuring that the objectives of acquirers and merchants is met while growing the Visa business.

Responsibilities
More specifically, the role encompasses management of merchant acceptance matters, which involves creation of compelling value propositions for acquirers and merchants to:

•    Drive the enablement and deployment of Visa Contactless and MPOS to deliver the Future of Payments in Vietnam and improve the POS experience for cardholders / merchants; ultimately growing electronic payments.
•    Manage partnerships with key acquirers through cross-selling of Visa acceptance products / solutions as well as managing the day-to-day relationship
•    Build direct relationships with key merchants, digital wallet operators and payment facilitators, identify strategic opportunities for Visa’s capabilities and develop account plans with the objective to drive incremental business and volume
•    Build and manage relationship with related acquiring parties including payment facilitators, payment gateway providers and terminal vendors, with the objective to support Visa Acquirers and Merchants 
•    Negotiate business contracts with acquirers and merchants, and related acquiring parties including payment facilitators, payment gateway providers or digital wallet operators to achieve business goals
•    Work with cross-functional teams (both internal and external) to provide merchant centric products and solutions to increase merchant preference for Visa and create business opportunities 
 

•    Bachelor Degree preferably in business management or a related field
•    High level of English language proficiency in formal business communication (verbal and written)
•    Knowledge of the payments industry with 10 years plus experience in the payments industry (Issuing and Acquiring) is preferable
•    Good knowledge of the acquiring landscape, fintech/ digital wallet operator, EMV/NFC technologies and Digital Innovation in the markets, and also deep technical knowledge about merchant POS system, terminals, payment gateways
•    Have relationship with many stakeholders that related Acquiring Business (key merchant partners, payment facilitator, payment gateways, terminal provider, etc) is preferable
•    Have strong analytical thinking, problem solving and persistence
•    Strong negotiation skills and a solid track record in Sales/Business Development
•    The ability to working with other functions, manage conflict and maintain positive relationships with clients at all times

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