Senior Growth Marketing Manager

Visa; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments technology company is seeking a Senior Manager for its European Hub Marketing Services team. This role focuses on business development opportunities across Europe, involving collaboration with regional marketing teams and guiding market intelligence efforts. Successful candidates will have a Bachelor's Degree and demonstrated experience in marketing and sales, along with strong analytic and strategic capabilities. This is a hybrid position that promises to make a significant impact in the marketing landscape.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in sales, marketing, or consulting, preferably in financial services.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Highly proficient in data analysis and creating executive presentations.

Responsibilities

• Create a sales pipeline and collaborate with teams to increase revenue.
• Analyze trends and customer behavior to identify strategic opportunities.
• Develop marketing-centric go-to-market strategies.

Skills

Analytic skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Process orientation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in sales, marketing, or consulting

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

As a key member of the European Hub Marketing Services team, this Senior Manager will concentrate on advancing business development opportunities across Europe, under the leadership of the Head of Strategy and Business Operations in Marketing Services. Marketing Services, a rapidly expanding division within Visa, delivers substantial value to clients through a comprehensive suite of services. This includes the end-to-end execution of marketing initiatives, achieved through close collaboration with Insights & Analytics, Creative & Media Services, Sponsorships, Partnerships and Marketing Strategy. Marketing Services regional hub team is dedicated to supporting regional marketing teams by disseminating best practices, creating training and communication materials, and fostering key strategies to drive business growth. This is a distinctive role requiring advanced problem-solving skills, exceptional communication abilities, executive presence, and a strong commitment to enhancing how marketing drives value for our business. If you are analytical, creative, detail-oriented, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we are eager to discuss this opportunity with you.

Responsibilities

• Create sales pipeline and orchestrate cross-functional collaboration with local and regional teams to drive incremental revenue opportunities under Marketing Services in Europe
• Guide market intelligence efforts, analyzing trends, customer behavior, and sales performance to identify strategic opportunities and areas for optimization using AI where needed.
• Develop and lead the creation of comprehensive, marketing-centric go-to-market strategies (Sales Plays) ensuring alignment with overall marketing objectives.
• Partner with the Global Marketing Services team to support development of set plays for key stages of client engagement (RFPs, Sales Enablement and more).
• Lead the creation and distribution of sales training materials and capabilities to enable and upskill our local market teams.
• Design, manage, and execute detailed marketing launch plans, channel strategy and content requirements that drive awareness, generate qualified leads, and accelerate pipeline growth.
• Operate as the central hub for regional teams, providing enablement for sales readiness, marketing asset and value proposition creation.
• Possess a strong understanding of our brand, products, capabilities and the competition in the industry to inform how we should position and communicate our offering across multiple use cases.
• Support RFP response efforts, including ideation, pitching, and showcasing Visa's unique value proposition as a competitive and strategic partner

Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant marketing and GTM experience and why you are a great fit for this role. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with significant and demonstrable experience in sales, marketing, or consulting preferably within the financial services sector.
• Demonstrated superior analytic and problem-solving skills, with a strong intellectual and analytical rigor, attention to detail, and the ability to structure and analyze financial models.
• Strong process orientation, capable of creating processes from scratch and driving continuous improvements.
• Highly proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, comfortable managing spreadsheets, devising formulas, creating pivot tables, performing data analysis, and building executive presentations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to create visually clear, concise, and insightful work products and present comfortably to senior leaders.
• Proven ability to build relationships, earning the trust and rapport of partners and clients at multiple levels.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in high-pressure situations and a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Comfortable juggling multiple projects and quick to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Team-oriented and collaborative, driven and resourceful, innovative and curious, positive and proactive, always looking for ways to improve.

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.