Director - Visa Direct Regional Field Marketing - CEMEA

Visa; Dubai; On-site; AED 330,517 - 440,690; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Director for Visa Direct Regional Field Marketing in Dubai, responsible for overseeing marketing activities across the CEMEA region. The role requires collaboration with senior leadership to align marketing programs with business objectives.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree, 10+ years of experience in B2B campaign strategy, strong communication skills, and a proactive mindset. This is a hybrid position with responsibilities including the localization of marketing content.

Qualifications

• 10 years of business experience in communications or marketing roles.
• Experience in B2B campaign strategy planning and execution.
• Strong executive presence with effective written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Visa Direct Field Marketing activities in CEMEA.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to drive new revenue opportunities.
• Implement strategic marketing execution plans to meet regional goals.

Skills

B2B campaign strategy

Strategic thinking

Verbal communication

Audience-focused mindset

Planning and organizational skills

Analytical acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Job description

The Director Visa Direct Regional Field Marketing CEMEA will dualreport to the Sr. Director of Field & Partner Marketingand the CEMEA Regional Head of B2B Marketingand is responsible for driving field marketing activations in the CEMEA region.

This role will lead all aspects of Visa Direct Field Marketing across all audiences priority markets and the new expanded product portfolio as a strategic regional partner to the CEMEA Visa Direct product and sales teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Visa Direct Field Marketing in CEMEA: Oversee all field marketing activities for Visa Direct in the CEMEA region ensuring alignment with business goals and priorities.
• Engage Senior Leaders: Collaborate with senior Visa Direct product and sales leaders to align marketing programs with business objectives driving new revenue sales opportunities and increasing transaction volumes.
• Execute Strategic Marketing Plans: Implement strategic marketing execution plans by leveraging global strategies and content to achieve regional Visa Direct business goals including awareness demand generation solution partner programs and enduser campaigns.
• CoMarketing Engagements: Drive B2B2B and B2B2C comarketing engagements with strategic enablers and clients to stimulate demand among merchant clients through joint content creation promotions and webinars.
• Event Activation: Manage activation for key regional events supporting preevent duringevent and postevent promotion of Visa Direct to enhance client engagement with sales.
• Localization of Content: Lead the localization of regional marketing and sales content to support CEMEA client engagements and develop CEMEAspecific marketing content to address regional use case needs.

Key Internal Partners

• Regional B2B Marketing Lead
• Global and Regional/Local Sales and Relationship Leads
• Global and Regional Product Teams
• Global Regional and Countrybased Marketing Teams
• Corporate Communications
• Analytics and Research Teams
• Finance

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree required/MBA preferred

• 10 years of progressively responsible business experience with a majority in communications or marketing roles that involved B2B campaign strategy planning and execution including bringing new products to market
• Strong strategic thinker with a results orientation who approaches any challenge with thoughtfulness drive and appropriate urgency
• Audiencefocused mindset with a demonstrated track record of discovering key insights
• Strong executive presence with highly effective written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present with impact
• A great team member who adds energy ideas and fun to our team and corporate culture
• Strong planning organizational and problemsolving skills
• Solid financial and analytical acumen with a strong ROI orientation
• Global sensibilities and an empathetic outlook to work well with other markets and cultures around the world

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Remote Work

No

Employment Type

Fulltime