Senior Consultant, Client Success

This role is an individual contributor who owns the post-sale client services relationship for a diverse portfolio of clientsincluding issuers acquirers processors fintechs wallet providers and merchants. Acting as a trusted client advocate the Sr. Consultant proactively drives client success by optimizing Visa product adoption enabling new capabilities supporting expansion and identifying opportunities for growth.

This role collaborates closely with Sales and Product teams to deliver operational and optimization solutions that align with clients strategic goals and Visas business agenda as outlined in the Sales Account Plan.

The position also defines and deploys client support and implementation strategies including automated tools to enhance the client experience while maintaining up-to-date knowledge of Visa rules mandates and regulatory requirements. Strong professionalism leadership and interpersonal skills are essential for managing relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

This role serves as a functional specialist located in Polish market and reporting to CS Senior Director in Central Eastern Europe cluster (CEE).

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 Client Success 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.
• Establish working relationships with Client Services teams and other cross-functional subject matter experts to orchestrate consultation to resolve complex client issues and optimize client performance.
• 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 clients and Visa stakeholders at market/ regional or global level (as applicable).
• Act on an ad-hoc and as needed basis for applicable clients 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.
• As applicable coordinate with global regional and/or in-market Client Success team members to maintain a continuous 360-degree view of the Client and deliver a consistent operational relationship experience.
• Delivering Operational Resilience Support - to disseminate approved Corporate Communications messages to clients and maintain ongoing interaction with clients to meet their specific needs throughout a crisis event coordinating and escalating queries where appropriate (as per agreed Crisis Management Plan).

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

Qualifications :

• Experience in a customer success customer services role in financial services payment cards software or information services industries.
• Excellent verbal written presentation and interpersonal skills are required.
• In depth knowledge of the payment industry i.e. trends threats competitors regulatory environments
• Analytical skills to extract and synthesize relevant data into business solutions and provide sound analysis
• Able to communicate complex technical terms and or processes in business language tailored to client environment
• Self starter able to achieve results as part of an effective team (across countries and time zones) and execute with minimal supervision
• Able to effectively prioritize and multi-task under deadlines
• Good project planning and project management capability and experience is an added advantage
• Experience representing technical and or business issues and solutions to influence audiences at multiple levels of an organization including executives in support of strategic business plans
• Experience using data points to create storyline within the context of client use cases will also be advantageous
• Certifications or qualifications in Client Customer Success project management or related areas of practice and expertise is a strong advantage.
• Fluent in both Polish and English
• Intermediate to expert proficiency in the following skills:

1. Building client relationships - Build credibility and create trust-based relations partner with clients to build their business alongside strong expectation management to encourage clients to leverage all of Visa support tools processes and teams
2. Customer centricity - Listen to and prioritize customer needs to drive value realization and build trusted partnerships whilst being confident in their client relationship to set expectations and also hold clients accountable for their adherence to Visa standards and rules
3. Success planning - Build measurable actions plans to help clients achieve their business goals and realize value from their products solutions driven against the objectives that matter most to the clients
4. Client engagement - Communicate clearly and effectively with clients with relevant data points and within the context of the clients user stories
5. Proactiveness - Think ahead and take action to prevent issues anticipate gains and opportunities for the client and plan ahead collectively against clients overall plans and timelines
6. Critical thinking - Take ownership over problems and find creative solutions to complex problems encouraging automation and simplicity of process as far as possible

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 :

Full-time