Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters.
We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere.
Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
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**Job Description**:
The Marketing Manager is responsible for developing marketing objectives, strategies, and programs for Visa and in partnership with Clients to support the achievement of both, Visa and Client business in Costa Rica.
This individual will primarily lead all aspects of Marketing plans and programs with Clients including, Financial Institutions who issue Visa credentials, Merchant Sellers who receive payments for their goods and services from Visa credentials, Fintech partners who enable the growth of the payment ecosystem, Government stakeholders and entities who strive to advance economic inclusion.
This is a unique role, you'll need to be comfortable with all aspects of the development and execution of marketing programs and plans, investment forecasting, ROI, data and insights analyses, creative, and media plans combined with excellent persuasion skills, executive presence, and a strong desire to drive impact with your work in these markets.
If you're creative, analytical, detail-oriented, persuasive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to talk to you!
- ** Essential Functions**
- Identify marketing opportunities with multiple audiences to develop co-marketing strategies and programs to drive increased Visa business
- Oversee all aspects of marketing plans, including promotions, events, marketing communications, sponsorships/partnerships, digital marketing, and sales support.
- Identify continuous actionable consumer insights and opportunities via consumer understanding programs and tools, trends, and data analyses
- Participate in sales pitch presentations and develop marketing plans to support new business deals.
- Build and enhance partnerships across the organization including Sales, Product, Merchant Solutions, Finance, and Legal to ensure effective implementation of marketing strategies and plans.
- Reimagine the use of Visa's key sponsorships and assets including Concerts, Events, FIFA Partnership, NFL Partnership, the Olympic Games Partnership, Disney+ partnership and others.
- Define the Social Media marketing strategy bringing your knowledge and creativity to look for innovative ways to capitalize our social, digital, and mobile channels
- Lead media and creative Agency management including brief, Statements of Work and Agency Budget Management
- Work with limited direction, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to Clients, other executive, functional, or regional management while supporting syndication with stakeholders across the organization
- Be innovative and curious, always looking for ways to do things better while driving success and sharing it, as well as learning from/sharing failures.
This is a hybrid position.
Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office.
Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.
**Qualifications**:
**Basic Qualifications**
5 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 3 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g.
Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 2 years of work experience with a PhD
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Proven Knowledge of English
- Experience in marketing communications, media, and/or trade marketing in a multi-national company and with international brands
- You have proven experience on developing marketing strategies and communications based on business objectives and executing marketing programs delivering measurable business and brand results
- You have experience managing and motivating external advertising, promotional, and media agency partners.
- You have stellar written and verbal communication skills and can present with impact in both English and Spanish.
- You have proven experience working with financial indicators to measure business performance including ROI and accurately forecasting sources of cost, revenue, and risk with an ability to summarize business and financi