VP, Global Corporate Events

Job Description

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.

Job Description

The Global VP Corporate Events will use leadership and problem-solving skills to lead the daily operation of the Corporate Events teams with a focus on customer service and satisfaction. This is includes both internal events, as well as those that support our clients.

The team will have direct influence on Activation, Culinary and Corporate Events globally (through direct reporting lines and through establishing requirements for regional representatives to follow).

This position is a newly created role which reports to the Senior Vice President Corporate Services, and is responsible for leading the global team’s governance, strategy, and operations around ‘hospitality’, including:

• Lead the formulation and implementation of activations while ensuring that each experience/ event realizes its full business potential.
• Ownership of colleague event satisfaction analysis – defining and implementing methods of routinely gathering feedback from colleagues and event participants
• Coordinate across multiple business units which would have input into employee activities
• Create and manage site, regional and global event plans / calendars. May be Site, Regional, Client, or Function / Product Specific
• Utilize methods to evaluate and measure event success and ROI, performing post-event evaluations including data reporting and analysis for stakeholders
• Formulate and implement strategies and tactics that ensure goals and objectives are met with success
• Evaluate event performance, identify opportunities for performance improvement and develop plans for future implementation
• Manage a team to pull together the creative and logistics components of small and large-scale events
• Lead development and conceptualization of organization’s strategy for events
• Increase engagement strategy, approach, planning, and execution for high-profile candidate events, large company events, training, seminars, conferences, meetings both internal and external
• Meet with event stakeholders to gain an understanding of the event’s purpose and goals
• Outline scope of events, forecasting budget and resources in advance
• Manage a team to work with vendors to determine best fits for budget/goals of event, negotiate and manage vendor contracts to Service Levels
• Manage a team that coordinates all event logistics and services, including detailed proposals for events, timelines, venues, contractors, equipment, suppliers, budgets, technology/equipment, food/beverage, transportation, lodging, where applicable
• Provide strategic leadership on new event ideas and experiences in virtual and hybrid landscape, leveraging appropriate technology
• Build and manage relationships with key stakeholders within Visa business units to help ensure event success and promote the teams skillset

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications
• 15 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree in Hospitality and/or Event Management, operations, and strategy
• Experience working for a large global organization
• Strong people manager
• Proven decision making and problem-solving capabilities with strong follow up skills and attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with exceptional ability to translate ideas and thoughts in written presentations
• Demonstrated exceptional project management, organization and planning skills applied in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment
• Ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the company
• Challenges the status-quo, looks for innovative solutions that help simplify processes
• Can present ideas and directions that lead others to action, demonstrates strong listening, written and oral communication skills
• Comprehensive understanding of the meetings and events industry ecosystem
• Experience with analytical and financial data
• Highly proficient in PowerPoint and Excel
• Is a brilliant relationship builder with a natural ability to influence and motivate individuals and teams
• Is a skilled communicator and negotiator with a laser focus on the finest detail
• Team player with flexibility to accommodate different personalities and work styles as well as confidence to manage interactions and expectations at all levels of the organization
• Flexibility for travel and to work evening hours and some weekends depending on event schedule

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 25-35% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.