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. 
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 Sourcing Manager for the Technology Category, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

Visa Europe Sourcing

Visa Europe Sourcing has an opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced and results-driven Procurement leader to join Europe Sourcing Leadership Team and help us to lead the change, further develop and shape the regional function and become a strategic partner to the business. Are you interested in the transformation and digital journey? Do you enjoy working in cross-functional teams? Can you bring leading practice thinking and solutions? Are you experienced and ambitious Category Lead? If this inspires and sounds familiar, please contact us because we would like to talk to you!

Role Summary

The role is accountable for providing category and sourcing support to Visa’s Technology in line with strategies and plans developed by Global and Regional Sourcing teams and category leads, to effectively and efficiently manage spend and suppliers to achieve the strategic business goals. 

Working in cross functional teams to continue to shape, bring leading practices, thinking and solutions to the category by proactively supporting the business in determining and managing the sourcing strategy and plans providing commercial leadership in all sourcing related activities and processes.

Categories in scope

• Technology Category includes Software, Hardware, Services, Networks/Telecom and Datacentres

The role includes execution on strategic roadmap, objectives and plans, building internal and external relationships, and responsibility for defined deliverables and outcomes. It will all contribute to raising standards and drive result-oriented ways of working, as well as an overall evolution and success of the Visa Europe Sourcing.

Key Responsibilities  

• Understand Business strategies and plans, and category spend, supplier landscape, leading practices and opportunities.
• Manage Stakeholder relationships, know relevant business strategies, plans and priorities
• Support defining and executing the category strategy, through development and delivering on leading practice sourcing strategies based on the business plans and priorities.
• Build and align short- and long-term Procurement Plan (The Pipeline).
• Drive execution of powerful Sourcing strategies and benefits realisation
• Support business to optimize demand and specifications
• Build, continuously develop and deploy Preferred Supplier Lists (PSL)
• Manage Tail spend
• Contribute to strategic approach and embedding Sustainability and Diversity in the Services supplier base
• Be ambassador of the overall CSR & Supplier Diversity agenda making the better world!

Qualifications and experience required

• Educated to degree level, ideally in a business or legal discipline
• Postgraduate procurement accreditation preferred (MCIPS or MIIAPS)
• Minimum 5 years sourcing experience in Europe and/or other complex markets
• Proven track record in developing sourcing strategies and successfully leading sourcing and supplier management activities in Direct and/or Indirect category areas
• Proven capability in negotiating complex sourcing deals with many non-price variables
• High levels of subject matter expertise, with deep market and supplier knowledge
• Demonstrable influencing skills and senior stakeholder management
• Excellent project leadership and communication skills
• Energy, pace and an impeccable track record of delivery

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.