About UsVisa 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. Progress starts with you.Job DescriptionWhat is it all about?The Director, Europe Sales Planning will lead the regional capability responsible for strengthening sales planning and commercial execution across all European Business Units and Clusters, as part of the Sales and Commercial Operations function in Europe. The role will partner closely with Sales Leaders to improve pipeline management, account planning, segmentation and coverage, ensuring the organisation focuses on the opportunities and actions most important to delivering its commercial goals.This is a senior, business-facing leadership role at the centre of Europe’s sales operating model. The Director will lead a team and work across Sales Performance Management and Business Intelligence SPM/BI, Sales Process, Sales Enablement, Global Sales & Commercial Operations, Finance, Legal and regional business teams. The role will champion a data-first, AI-native sales mindset, using insight, technology and emerging AI capabilities to improve commercial decision-making and sales execution.Europe is establishing a dedicated Sales Planning capability to bring greater consistency, commercial focus and execution discipline across its sales organisation. The successful candidate will help Sales Leaders understand whether the pipeline is sufficient to deliver targets, align the organisation around priority deals and interventions, and embed effective account-plan
