Director – Head of Government Affairs, Korea and Mongolia (KRM)

About the role

Visa 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.

What you'll do

• Developing and implementing an overall government engagement strategy for KRM in close coordination with the Country Managers and JKM Head of Government Affairs, along with other Visa peers and colleagues in the market and across the wider organization.
• Monitoring the regulatory and political landscape throughout KRM for risks and opportunities to Visa's business and communicating these insights to locally based business leaders, functional colleagues and global management.
• Managing Visa's relationships with key government officials in KRM, and working with the Country Managers to ensure all public sector engagements across the business are compliant with Visa's Political Participation, Lobbying, and Contributions (PPLC) policy.
• Educating public sector stakeholders about the value of Visa, including through regular policy discussions and technical briefings with Visa subject matter experts presenting to regulators and government officials.
• Recommending, engaging, and managing Visa's relationships with necessary third-party intermediaries including consultants, industry associations, diplomatic missions and civil society organizations.
• Establishing and maintaining appropriate contact with counterparts at other industry participants, including client banks.
• Build and maintain deep partnerships between Visa, our clients, and key government policy makers in KRM.
• Create compelling content and leverage public engagement platforms to advance Visa's role as a thought leader in digital commerce.
• Provide regulatory advice on and advocacy support for new business initiatives.
• Explore opportunities for new public sector partnerships.
• Help shape Visa's long-term strategy for KRM, as well JKM, Asia-Pacific and Global Government Affairs more broadly, contributing to in-market business and functional leadership teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of government engagement experience and achievement.
• Thorough knowledge of the Korean and preferably Mongolian Government and how it operates; strong understanding of core political and public policy motivators for Korean and preferably Mongolian officials and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at senior and executive management levels.
• The highest standards for ethical conduct, confidentiality and integrity, with a strong professional reputation in the industry.
• Good judgment and experience handling confidential and material, non-public information.
• Ability to operate effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment with limited supervision.
• Experience setting priorities and interacting with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively with others across geographic boundaries.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, always looking for ways to add value and assist the team.
• Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and written communication.
• Languages – fluent in Korean and English.
• Willingness to travel as required, where, when appropriate.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required, graduate degree preferred.
• Combination of corporate and central as well as provincial government experience.
• Working knowledge of payments industry in Korea.
• Knowledge and experience working with government in Mongolia.
• Influencing and negotiation skills.
• Complex analytical abilities with outstanding written skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management with experience.
• Executive presence.

Benefits

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