Sr Consultant, Client Success

**Company Description**
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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The Senior Consultant, Enterprise Engagement Lead is an individual contributor responsible for owning the overall post sale Client Services relationship for a pan-regional based Client with a vast and sophisticated payments operation, and ambitious strategic geographical and portfolio expansion objectives. This is a hybrid role with the responsibility of owning the local relationship and leading and driving the coordination and collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders across the markets where the client operates. This individual contributor will focus on understanding the clients business and operational priorities, providing operational solutions to support the Clients growth objectives, and on optimizing adoption and performance of Visa products and services. The Senior Consultant is a trusted client advocate and works proactively with the client to optimize and expand the adoption of the Clients Visa product portfolio, identify new Visa product and service sales opportunities that meet the client needs, enable new capabilities, support geographic expansion, whilst helping the client stay up to date on Visa rules, mandates and regulatory requirements. The role requires a high level of professionalism, leadership and interpersonal skills to manage relationships with a variety of internal and Client stakeholders. This role is an exciting opportunity to be at the fore front of Visas transformation by partnering closely with the Client to maximize their benefits realization and value from Visa products through optimizing their performance in both the face to face and card not present environments. Working in conjunction with Account Team members from Sales and Product, you will proactively drive outcomes for Client in alignment with Visas business agenda as detailed in the Sales Account Plan. The individual will also define and deploy client support and service implementation strategies, including automated tools and capabilities to enhance the client experience, that drive value for our clients and support Visas strategy. This role serves as a functional specialist, located in Milan Italy and reporting to Head of Client Services Southern Europe.

**Responsibilities include**
- Oversee the implementation of new Visa products the Client purchases by coordinating key Client and Visa teams to expedite implementation readiness activities and steer the client toward getting faster time to value and maximize adoption of deployed products.
- Ensure Client operational goals and success metrics for their overall Visa product landscape are understood.
- Build and sustain a trusted client advocate status with key client stakeholders by proactively executing against forward looking plans, in alignment with the Account Team, to track client specific outcomes including a clients adoption and performance of Visa products purchased.
- Drive and deliver initiatives to improve client adoption of products and use of Visas self service tools.
- Stay current with the latest local market trends, payment processing trends, Visa solutions and technologies to provide a great Client experience and generate new sales leads as solutions to identified client pain points.
- Close alignment and engagement with sales account teams on driving the objectives and targets for the client, in line with client success outcomes, and ensuring early engagement to secure clients earliest return on investment.
- Develop contribute to client education and training materials including webinars to communicate new Visa Rules, essential mandates, Visa Business Enhancement Releases and or upcoming changes to ensure client readiness and service compliance.
- Lead periodic operational reviews with Client and Visa stakeholders at market and regional levels.
- Act, on an ad hoc and as needed basis for the Client, as the escalation point for managing significant issues and major incident crisis responses.
- Proactively identify and drive opportunities to optimize client performance by monitoring client performance and liaising with specialist Visa teams as needed.
- Coordinate and collaborate with regional and in market Client Services team members to maintain a continuous 360 degree view of the Client and deliver a consistent operational relationship experience. Expectation is this is across all the relevant m