Consultant / Manager - Nigeria

Job Description

• The Consultant, Client Success is an individual contributor responsible for owning the holistic post-sale Client Services operational relationship for applicable clients and providing operational technical and account management support in growing clients’ business on Visa Value Added Services. The Consultant is a trusted client advocate and works proactively with their client portfolio to enable new capabilities, manage geographic expansion, and promote product adoption.
• This role is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of Visa’s Client Success transformation by partnering closely with key Visa clients to maximize their benefits realization and value from Visa products through optimizing their performance. Working in conjunction with Account Team members from Sales and Product, you will proactively drive Client Success outcomes in alignment with Visa’s 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 Visa’s strategy.
• This role serves as a functional specialist, located in Nigeria and reporting to Client Success, Director, to support Visa VAS (Value Added Services) products.
• All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code) to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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 client’s adoption and performance of Visa products purchased.
• Drive and deliver initiatives to improve client adoption of products and use of Visa’s self-service tools.
• Stay current with the latest 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 and other cross-functional subject matter experts to orchestrate consultation to resolve complex client issues and optimize client performance.
• Develop 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.
• 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 health and liaising with specialist Visa teams as needed.

Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant 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)
• Experience analyzing data and translating findings into actionable business recommendations.
• Experience in using standard Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Experience in representing technical and/or business issues and solutions to influence audiences at multiple levels of an organization.
• Experience in communicating complex technical terms and/or processes in business language tailored to client.
• Experience in building client relationships and creating trust-based relations.
• Experience in success planning and building measurable action plans to help clients achieve their business goals.
• Experience in client engagement and communicating clearly and effectively with clients.
• Experience in prioritizing and multi-tasking under deadlines.
• Experience in monitoring client health and liaising with specialist teams as needed.
• Knowledge of the payment industry (i.e., trends, threats, competitors, regulatory environments).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications or qualifications in Payments, Client/Customer Success, project management or related areas of practice and expertise.
• Experience in becoming customer centric by listening to and prioritizing customer needs to drive value realization and build trusted partnerships.
• Experience in proactiveness by thinking ahead and taking action.
• Experience in critical thinking by taking ownership over problems and finding creative solutions to complex problems.
• Experience in supporting development of 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:

Note

• Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
• 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.

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