Total 15 Director/C-Level purchasing lead job vacancies in Tanglin Road, Central Singapore

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Digital Team Lead to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will manage the implementation process, ensuring adherence to established timelines, and collaborate with stakeholders across various departments to develop effective communication plans. The role also requires expertise in Generative AI to drive innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Translate strategic plans into detailed, actionable steps. Ensure that all project milestones are met within the established timelines.
• Implementation Management: Oversee the implementation process, ensuring that all activities adhere to the project plan and timelines. Address any issues that arise promptly to keep the project on track.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with stakeholders across various departments to ensure alignment and effective communication. Develop and implement comprehensive communication plans to keep all parties informed and engaged.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of digital professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Provide guidance and support to team members to achieve project goals.
• Technical Expertise: Utilize extensive experience in digital transformation, procurement, and supply chain management to drive successful project outcomes. With extensive knowledge on Procurement platforms such as Ivalua, Coupa, and SAP for Procurement AI.
• Generative AI Expertise: Experienced in Generative AI solutions to enhance digital transformation initiatives. Utilize platforms and tools to create innovative AI-driven solutions that meet business needs.
• Client Engagement: Engage with clients to understand their needs and provide expert advice on digital and AI solutions. Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through effective project delivery and support.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance project delivery and team performance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Over 15 years of global experience in consulting, solutioning, and implementing digital transformation initiatives.
• Proven track record in managing transformation projects and implementing platforms
• Strong project management and program management skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership qualities.
• Experience in developing and executing communication plans.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in Generative AI solutions.

Technical & Functional Skills:

• Experienced in Software as a Service product lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of vendor development, purchasing, subcontracting, and inventory management.
• Expertise in pre-sales, quality management systems, and e-procurement.
• Proficient in Generative AI technologies and tools.

Domain Expertise:

• Experience working with clients in specialty chemicals, pharma, wholesale distribution, consumer packaged goods, telecom, automotive, aviation, manufacturing, oil & gas, banking, and public sector.
• Extensive experience in project management and digital transformation at major consulting and technology firms.

Roles & Responsibilities:

To establish continuity with our key client as the trusted partner, provide leadership to the

regional and operational Program Management Office team, and build on the high-value

program management service in line with the global framework.

· Be the key client interface for all Real Estate stakeholders 

· Providing subject-matter expertise to the client in all areas of capital programs and

projects in Real Estate, bridging the opportunity and deliverables to the client’s

enterprise standards and strategic objectives.

· Managing and leveraging of the resources available at the Program Management

Office, and the wider Turner & Townsend business to provide a high-value service to

the client.

· Building on the legacy as a trusted partner with the client, bringing value delivery to

the Program Management Office service, providing advisory based on sector and

industry knowledge.

· Providing the key link between the peer regions, central and offshore program

management teams, the client’s internal and external delivery teams, and

supporting business units, driving excellence in capital programs.

· Reach back and two-way knowledge transfer between related capital project delivery

teams under the client’s framework, and peer Program Management Office teams

working on similar Real Estate portfolios within Turner & Townsend business.

· Full-time client facing, managing a team of client’s stakeholders, working with the

regional leadership team, portfolio managers and planners.

The Director is a lead to steward the business and deliver against client objectives and satisfaction. He or she serves as the senior contact and will drive quality control, approving communication strategies, plans and key tactics delivered by the team across online and offline planning.

This individual will manage a structured team to engage and drive conversations with key partners (including creative agencies) that involves account and media planning, new opportunities, branded content, negotiations, as well as support and collaborate on relevant projects to scale learnings that is required of the account.

This entails management of internal business deliverables (e.g. Scope of Work, address audits) and management of staff (e.g. interviewing/hiring, performance reviews, assignment recommendations, etc.).

The Director will also mentor, manage, train and motivate team members to deliver the best possible performance.

Key Accountabilities:

• Be a key contact across entire planning cycle for senior brand clients and media directors / managers. Ensure media deliverables are met on time and within budget and align with clients’ objectives.
• Utilize an in-depth knowledge on client category, brands and specific client requests and needs to provide appropriate input and direction to the agency units driving the entire communication planning process.
• Lead account ‘project manager’ for the entire business accountable for achieving deadlines across all campaigns and deliverables. Collaborate with multiple internal business practices that contribute to the overall communication plan development process both internal and external.
• Hones feasibility, profitability and negotiation skills through implementation and management of plans, working with Trading team to drive best prices and terms to maximize effectiveness of placement’s reach to client’s consumers.
• Serves as first level coach and supervisor to one or more associates to support their knowledge of agency, client, vendor and industry basics as well as their overall skill development in the execution or monitoring of experience plans.
• Provide staff with ongoing feedback and manage annual Evaluation as well as constantly evaluating resource allocations.
• Address all operational issues to ensure smooth execution. Propose solutions and perspectives to problems.
• Establish effective working relationships with all parties and act as first line of issue escalation; manage the resolution of issues as they arise (pre and post live) such as discrepancy between reporting systems and creative malfunctions, amongst others.
• Keep abreast to the development and trends in the ever-changing media landscape.
• Full understanding and interpretation of media system, research, market data and manage 3rd Party audits.
• Drive and own internal processes to increase productivity, streamline processes/reporting as required and champions HX Media Framework. Work with team to implement these processes and see it to its fruition.

Key Competencies:

• Strong understanding of the integrated media landscape
• Acts as a client visionary by bringing a highly valued perspective to the client based on a deep understanding of their business, issues and opportunities
• Takes responsibility for the collective performance of Functional Leads/Specialists team working together
• Integrates understanding into the work to make decisions on the business
• Filters and adapts the different options and applies good judgement combined with hard facts to select which ideas will produce the best results
• Builds team effectiveness by providing a clear definition of what’s expected and identifying the people with the right skills and capabilities
• Coaches others by assessing an individual's strengths and areas for development and encouraging a free exchange of constructive feedback. Pushes down decision-making and avoids taking charge unless absolutely necessary.
• Takes entrepreneurial calculated risks and acts on opportunities that lead to significant gains for the business
• Identifies and actions opportunities to grow profitable revenue while driving awards submissions and winning awards
• Anticipates the future and takes decisive action to create opportunities or minimize potential problem
• Pre-sells by soliciting the involvement of key people in advance to build ownership
• Demonstrate desired behaviours and make effective decisions. Ensure all decision making is aligned to brand’s purpose and values. Lead by example.

• Developing and implementing purchasing strategies.
• Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff, and allocating tasks.
• Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc.
• Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation.
• Coordinating with Inventory control to determine and manage inventory needs.
• Managing the maintenance of office/manufacturing equipment and machinery.
• Ensuring that all procured items meet the required quality standards and specifications.
• Preparing cost estimates and managing budgets.
• Working to improve purchasing systems and processes.
• Training new employees in the purchasing process and how to use the purchasing system.

As a Project Director / Delivery Lead, you will act as the single point of contact for the key client on all project delivery and managed services delivery matters. You will lead a small team of Project Managers and workstream leads and be responsible for overseeing, managing and implementing multiple IT Projects with quality, within scope, ensure deliverables are on time and conform to processes and standards meeting client’s requirements.

What will you do?

Project Delivery

• Review the project lifecycle (initiation, plan, execution, completion)
• Review project schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans
• Manage issues arising out of scope definition and subsequent disputes that impacted scope, schedule and cost
• Manage issues arising from integration of various components of the project including hardware, software installation, testing, business process review, redesign, application development, migration and data conversion etc.
• Oversee the implementation of the project with regard to schedules, budget, manpower and quality
• Resolve project overrun issues with Senior Management
• Monitor and report on project management progress
• Manage resources in terms of mobilizing resources during different periods of time from team to team to maximize productivity or minimize wastage

Customer/Vendor Management

• Manage contracts and subcontractors
• Effectively engaged stakeholders in project decisions and execution
• Build long-term customer relationships by anticipating and exceeding customer’s expectation
• Negotiate with customers on change control mechanism to meet schedules and prioritize changes based on business needs

Team Management

• Provide leadership to the project team to ensure that proposals/ enhancements are fully analyzed and evaluated for benefits and cost
• Provide the project team with accurate information about business needs and priorities as well as details about business systems
• Participate in leadership activities and providing performance feedback and developmental coaching
• Monitor and improve team performance, conduct team building, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management

Beyond projects and operational delivery matters, you are also expected to:

• Develop business opportunities to solve the client’s problems.
• Ideate solutions using technology and process changes.
• Create growth opportunities by considering the feasibility and sustainability of these opportunities and the core capabilities of NCS.
• Direct the right team across different Lines of Business (LOBs) to drive revenue, quality and customer satisfaction targets and ensure delivery.
• Accountable for the delivery services of the client’s account and needs to be involved in the delivery of the programs that you are responsible for.

As the lead for our core program based in Singapore for AP region you will be the product and business lead responsible for building out corporate T&E strategy for our issuers including forming and launching initiatives, offering product capabilities, as well as engaging in key partners including TMCs, travel enablers that support corporate travel requirements.  You will work in close collaboration with our market teams and business development teams to drive overall issuer goals in commercial.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a new team within Visa in AP, managing one of the company’s most important strategic product initiative globally. This role will report to Head of Large and Mid-Market segment in AP as well as secondarily, to the Global B2B Travel team.

Key responsibilities will include

• You will own and drive our Corporate Travel and Entertainment segment strategy in Asia Pacific across variety of issuers
• The role will require you to collaborate with key partners both internal and external in executing Visa’s strategy while meeting Issuers and corporates needs in the T&E user journey
• Drive product development, enhancements of CVPs, introduction of VCS Services to meet corporate needs.
• Provide best practices guidelines for corporates and government to benchmark their current program and evaluate recommendations for future growth plans. 
• You will work collaboratively with the client deal teams working on selling strategies, executing, optimising portfolio as well as commercial arrangements.
• As such, you will work with market teams to develop and execute sales pipeline in Corporate T&E Programs in the region, introducing new B2B products and services as appropriate.
• As the voice of the market clients, you will need to provide feedback, develop product plans and collaborate with global LMM Core product teams to prioritize and maintain product roadmap to drive future growth. 

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

There’s never been a more exciting time to be in Sales at Accenture. We are looking for experienced and high performing sales professionals to come work with the leading Technology Services company in the world.

With Next Gen Sales Careers we’re continuing to build a best-in-class sales capability-powered by best-in-class Sales professionals. The Technology Sales Lead known internally as Sales Capture is focused on growing Accenture’s Business, manages opportunities through all phases including qualification, sales pursuit and the close stage by applying deep sales process and offering expertise. Developing relationships with key buyers and decision-makers at new and/or existing clients, advising them solving some of their most complex issues by bring the end to end capabilities of Accenture.

Critical Sucess Factors

• Prior experience in managing deals greater than USD$10-20M
• Minimum of 8-15 years’ experience in Enterprise Software / Solution / Service Sales Experience

Role & Responsibilities

• Shape, sell and close deals typically greater than $10M that are single or multi service
• Target the right clients, grow quality pipeline, win profitable deals and manage sales activities with the objective of creating mutually beneficial, trust-based relationships that create value
• Has prior experience in leading and closing multi-year application outsourcing deals and system integration/implementation projects
• Develop / create strong partnerships and relationships with senior stakeholders at the client
• Ability to originate new opportunities, by developing client relationships leading to qualified opportunity identification and involvement throughout the sales cycle often in absence of an existing client relationship or opportunity
• Is able to identify a client problem statement, craft a value proposition that provides specific outcomes addressing client problem
• Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.
• Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters
• Manage the opportunity from sales origination to close using deep sales process and offering expertise.

In order to be successful at this role, you must have experience in most of the following:

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in Enterprise Software / Solution / Service Sales Experience
• Working with Technology Ecosystem partners including hyperscaler and enterprise platform providers
• Direct sales with quota of $20M+
• Creating and articulating a compelling and differentiated client value proposition
• Win strategy development
• Commercial, Deal Shaping and Contracting acumen
• Ability to guide a complex solution, problem solve and make decisions for the best interest of the customer and the business.
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent business acumen and industry acumen
• High energy level, decisiveness and ability to work well in demanding client environments.
• Unquestionable professional integrity, credibility and character.
• Ability to meet travel requirements, when required

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Champion and drive the continuous improvement exercise of reviewing, streamlining and digitalising HR processes, for a more efficient and effective delivery of HR Administration services.
• Work closely with HRBP and COE teams to review/design/propose HR administration policy changes and initiatives. Revise internal procedures when policy guidelines change, or as required for legal or other external compliance reasons.
• Lead and coach the HR Administration team, in ensuring smooth operations from onboarding, HRMS transactions and offboarding, as well as handling employee inquiries and issues.
• Oversee and monitor the overall data management for all HRMS transactions to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Review HR processes with internal HR units to ensure work processes are aligned with HR policies/programmes and effectively carried out to achieve their objectives, e.g., ensuring that the employee onboarding programme is achieving the expected outcome, new hires are able to be accustomed to the new environment after x months.
• Collaborate closely with HR Technology team to review/optimize work processes via technology.
• Act as overall coordinator for HR annual budget preparation and collation by working closely with other HR Unit/Functional Heads /Leads on their respective budgets.
• Accountable for managing the vendor procurement process, providing logistical support for HR events and ensuring HR Administration team collaborates with internal HR units.

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of broad HR experience, with at least 3 years in HR administration or HR operations roles, including leadership or supervisory experience. Prior experience in an educational setting or related industry is preferred.
• Demonstrates high level of empathy and advanced listening skills when communicating, influencing and problem-solving people matters.
• Familiarity with general HR policies and practices, local Employment Act, Immigration rules, etc.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop team members.
• Experienced in process workflow, transactions and data changes using SAP SuccessFactors modules or any other third-party HR solutions.
• Ability to promote and implement changes to current HR practices and processes.
• Attention to detail and ability to independently handle multiple concurrent tasks and changing priorities in high-pressure situations.

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Candidates who do not possess the stipulated qualifications but have relevant work experience may still apply. Remuneration and appointment terms shall commensurate with qualifications and experience. SMU reserves the right to modify the appointment terms where necessary.

Team Summary

The Director, Gaming Vertical Lead will be a part of the AP Growth Verticals team within the Merchant Sales and Acquiring (MS&A) hub organization. This is a team of thought leaders and execution-focused specialists who work with market teams to deploy acceptance growth initiatives, issuance opportunities, and seller-side solutions to catalyze growth across Asia Pacific. The team is also the regional co-ordination point and interface into the global verticals and segments and drives the overall strategy for multiple initiatives to grow Visa’s acceptance footprints.

As a key member of this team based in Singapore, you will be the subject matter expert for helping Visa’s market teams in identifying and delivering on opportunities within the Gaming vertical with client segments such as developers, publishers, console manufacturers and other gaming partners/enablers. This role will report to the Head of AP Co-brand & Growth Verticals in AP.

What a Gaming Vertical Lead does at Visa:

• Build, own and drive Visa’s Gaming segment strategy for merchants, acquirers, and enablers across the Gaming value-chain in Asia Pacific.
• Be the subject-matter-expert to Visa market teams to grow Visa acceptance, co-brands opportunities, acceptance solutions and various payment flows with gaming merchants (eg: game developers, online gaming platforms, console manufacturers) as identified in the regional Gaming strategy.
• Engage with ecosystem players including game developers, console manufacturers, gaming associations, digital distribution platforms and others to identify and build opportunities/partnerships to grow Acceptance in Gaming, update on trends and obtain industry feedback.
• Collaborate with key partners - both internal and external – in defining and executing Visa’s Gaming strategy in the region. Specifically, this includes building compelling sales collateral, developing a sales pipeline, co-pitching with respective Account Executives, partnering with Product teams to define appropriate products/services, Portfolio Optimization and building commercial arrangements where required.
• Front client engagements on relevant products/solutions such as Co-Brands, CyberSource, Tokenization etc and articulate Visa value proposition in Gaming customer-centric language.
• Increase Visa share of processed volume and grow Visa revenue (from core and Value-added Services) in the Gaming vertical.
• Be a thought leader and champion of innovation by staying current with industry trends, representing Visa in Gaming forums and market activities as a subject matter expert.

Why this is important to Visa

As a Gaming Vertical Lead at Visa, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our company's future in the burgeoning gaming industry in Asia Pacific. You will be at the forefront of building and driving Visa's Gaming segment strategy, actively shaping our presence in this rapidly expanding market.

This role provides an opportunity to be a part of an innovative and collaborative environment, where your subject matter expertise will be utilized to grow Visa's acceptance and create opportunities with gaming merchants. You'll have the chance to engage with key players in the gaming ecosystem, such as game developers, console manufacturers, and online gaming platforms, to forge strategic partnerships that can significantly contribute to Visa's growth.

Moreover, your work will have a direct impact on Visa's revenue as you increase our share of processed volume in the gaming vertical. You'll also have the platform to put forth Visa's value proposition in customer-centric language, enhancing our relevance and appeal in the gaming industry.

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Team Summary

The Products and Solutions function is responsible for product management, product strategy, providing the thought leadership and long-term design for the development and growth of Visa’s products across the Asia Pacific (AP) region. The Product Development and Commercialisation is a horizontal service group, within Regional Product team that has end-to-end responsibility for building and delivering new capabilities aligned with the AP Product Roadmap.

What a Director – Deployment Strategy will do:

The Director will be a member of the leadership team reporting to the AP Regional Head of Product Development and Commercialisation and will lead and own strategy initiatives. The incumbent will lead end to end strategy as well as the deployment and development efforts of the regional muti year plans.

Essentially, the individual will:

• Work with and support Product verticals and markets and owns the development of strategies with alignment of the regional and global priorities.
• Front regional business planning and develop proposals to address product roadmap development needs
• Monitor competitive developments across the region as well as globally, and be involved in the development of timely responses to emerging trends and opportunities across AP.
• A typical effort may entail working closely with senior stakeholders to understand and logically structure the problem, develop hypothesis, work with cross-functional teams to validate the hypothesis, develop strategy to address the problem, and develop recommendations and execution plan to present to the regional leadership.
• Lead end-to-end strategy efforts with a small team of analysts. The strategy efforts can range from developing focused product strategies in responding to developing market trends to developing multi-year plans for the region, addressing emerging competitive and economic model issues, managing commercial response to regulatory changes, developing cross-product programs, and supporting strategic investment assessments.
• Collaborate and work across markets, cultures and teams within Visa as well as client organizations.
• Lead a team and program manage deployment efforts to ensure timely delivery as well as launch of key initiatives

The position will be based in Singapore with some travel expected.

Why this is important to Visa

As we roll out products and solutions in an extremely dynamic marketplace, being able ro purposefully define, plann, and execute against long-term strategic priorities will be principal determinants of success. The Deployment Strategy team will be the owners of Visa’s product roadmap in the AP region and will provide the stewardship, tools, and processes to make it a reality.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• This position is for Office of Human Resources and Faculty Administration (HRFA).
• HR Technology Management
  • Lead the strategic planning and execution of HR Technology systems/platforms to improve and streamline HR operations, as well as enhancing the user experience for employees, line managers and HR users.
  • Serve as a liaison between HR function and IT/System implementation partner for the SAP SuccessFactors implementation project and ongoing technology initiatives/enhancements.
  • Lead the design and delivery of new/enhancement of HR technology solutions including HRIS (SAP HR ECC, SAP SuccessFactors modules) and other relevant 3rd party HR tools (e.g., Qliksense, Glint, Chronus, Microsoft Office Tools, Document management System) to meet the needs of the organization.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth rollout and integration between HR systems and other organizational platforms, aligning to business requirements.
  • Facilitate the change management process for the deployment of new systems or major updates to existing HR systems/modules.
• Data Management and Analytics/Reporting
  • Oversee the management of HR data, not limiting to data structure inventory, data accuracy and compliance with data privacy.
  • Drive HR analytics and through development of standard reports/dashboard to provide insights into key HR metrics to support data-driven decision making.
  • Partner with IT department to implement and monitor security measures to protect sensitive HR data and ensure data access control.
• Process Optimisation
  • Lead and collaborate with business owners (internal HR or external stakeholders) to operationalise the implementation of the HR/Academic policies and processes via technology.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline HR processes, workflow and improve user experience through technology enhancement/automation.
• Compliance and Vendor Management
  • Oversee and review users' access for all HR related systems, i.e., HRMS such as SAP HR/SuccessFactors, reporting tool such as Qliksense, electronic document management system, Intranet repository, 3rd party systems, etc. to ensure segregation of duties are being managed appropriately according to internal control guidelines.
  • Participate in the periodic audit review exercise, not limiting to users' access maintenance.
  • Manage relationship with HR technology vendors, together with the IT department, on system patches/upgrades, maintenance, adhering service level agreement, contract negotiation.
• Training and Documentation
  • Develop training materials, conduct training sessions for users on the use of HR technology platform. Create and maintain documentation, user guide, FAQs to support end-users to navigate the system effectively.
• Team Management
  • Lead and mentor the team members, providing guidance on project prioritization, continuous development and keeping up with new technology trends.

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of broad HR experience, with at least 3 years in HR technology implementation, or related roles, including leadership or supervisory experience.
• Strong understanding of HR technology platforms, including HRMS (SAP HR ECC, SAP SuccessFactors), 3rd party faculty information system, survey platform (Glint).
• Proficiency in HR solutions' configurations, customizations, and integrations.
• Highly self-motivated and independent thinking abilities.
• Strong presentation and stakeholder influencing/engagement capabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work in multiple teams and coordinate efforts across different stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop team's members.

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Candidates who do not possess the stipulated qualifications but have relevant work experience may still apply. Remuneration and appointment terms shall commensurate with qualifications and experience. SMU reserves the right to modify the appointment terms where necessary.

The Director, Travel Vertical lead will be a part of the Acceptance team within the Merchant Sales and Acquiring (MS&A) hub organization. This is a team of thought leaders and execution-focused specialists who deploy acceptance growth initiatives and seller-side solutions to catalyse acceptance growth across Asia Pacific. The team is also the regional co-ordination point and interface into the global verticals and segments and drives the overall strategy for multiple initiatives to grow Visa’s acceptance footprints.

As a key member of this team based in Asia Pacific, you will be the business lead responsible for identifying and delivering on opportunities within the Travel vertical with client segments such as airlines, hotels and other travel partners/enablers. You will leverage your deep domain expertise of travel and payments to help grow Merchant Sales & Acquiring opportunities through enhancing customer experience, optimizing payment performances and driving revenue growth for both the clients and Visa. This role will report to Head of Acceptance in AP.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Build, own and drive Visa’s Travel segment strategy for merchants, acquirers, and enablers across the Travel value-chain in Asia Pacific.
• Be the subject-matter-expert to grow Visa acceptance, cobrands opportunities, acceptance solutions and various payment flows with travel merchants (eg: airlines, hotels, OTAs) as identified in the regional Travel strategy.
• Engage with ecosystem players including airlines, hotels, aggregators, travel enablers, travel associations, GDS and others to identify and build opportunities/partnerships to grow Acceptance in Travel, update on trends and obtain industry feedback.
• Collaborate with key partners - both internal and external – in defining and executing Visa’s Travel Acceptance strategy in the region, Specifically, this includes building compelling sales collateral, developing a sales pipeline, co-pitching with respective Account Executives, partnering with Product teams to define appropriate products/services, Portfolio Optimization and building commercial arrangements where required.
• Front client engagements on relevant products/solutions such as Co-Brands, CyberSource, Tokenization etc and articulate Visa value proposition in Travel customer-centric language
• Increase Visa share of processed volume and grow Visa revenue (from core and Value-added Services) in the Travel vertical
• Be a thought leader and champion of innovation by staying current with industry trends, representing Visa in Travel forums and market activities as a subject matter expert
• Work closely with marketing and respective Global/Regional Travel teams (including VCS, VCA) where required to evolve the Visa value proposition, products, and platforms globally to meet client/market needs in this ecosystem and drive future growth.

There’s never been a more exciting time to be in Sales at Accenture. We are looking for experienced and high performing sales professionals to come work with the leading Technology Services company in the world.

With Next Gen Sales Careers we’re continuing to build a best-in-class sales capability-powered by best-in-class Sales professionals. The Technology Sales Lead known internally as Sales Capture is focused on growing Accenture’s Business, manages opportunities through all phases including qualification, sales pursuit and the close stage by applying deep sales process and offering expertise. Developing relationships with key buyers and decision-makers at new and/or existing clients, advising them solving some of their most complex issues by bring the end to end capabilities of Accenture.

Critical Sucess Factors

• Prior experience in managing deals greater than USD$10-20M
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in Enterprise Software / Solution / Service Sales Experience

Role & Responsibilities

• Shape, sell and close deals typically greater than $10M that are single or multi service
• Target the right clients, grow quality pipeline, win profitable deals and manage sales activities with the objective of creating mutually beneficial, trust-based relationships that create value
• Has prior experience in leading and closing multi-year application outsourcing deals and system integration/implementation projects
• Develop / create strong partnerships and relationships with senior stakeholders at the client
• Ability to originate new opportunities, by developing client relationships leading to qualified opportunity identification and involvement throughout the sales cycle often in absence of an existing client relationship or opportunity
• Is able to identify a client problem statement, craft a value proposition that provides specific outcomes addressing client problem
• Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.
• Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters
• Manage the opportunity from sales origination to close using deep sales process and offering expertise.

In order to be successful at this role, you must have experience in most of the following:

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in Enterprise Software / Solution / Service Sales Experience
• Working with Technology Ecosystem partners including hyperscaler and enterprise platform providers
• Direct sales with quota of $20M+
• Creating and articulating a compelling and differentiated client value proposition
• Win strategy development
• Commercial, Deal Shaping and Contracting acumen
• Ability to guide a complex solution, problem solve and make decisions for the best interest of the customer and the business.
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent business acumen and industry acumen
• High energy level, decisiveness and ability to work well in demanding client environments.
• Unquestionable professional integrity, credibility and character.
• Ability to meet travel requirements, when required

About Accenture

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As a key and lead of this team based in Asia Pacific, you will be the product and business lead responsible for building out the B2B Travel business for Visa Commercial Solutions. This role includes forming and driving Visa's B2B Travel strategy and launching and prioritizing product capabilities, as well as engaging with key partners including Global Distribution System partners, airlines, hotels and other travel partners and enablers. Additionally, you will be part of the broader Visa B2B Travel team globally.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a new team within Visa in AP, managing one of the company’s most important strategic product initiative globally. This role will report to Head of Large and Mid-Market segment in AP as well as secondarily, to the Global B2B Travel team.

Key responsibilities will include

• You will own and drive our B2B Travel segment strategy in Asia Pacific, starting with key markets before scaling and replicating across the region.
• The role will require you to collaborate with key partners both internal and external in executing Visa’s B2B Travel in the region, making key strategies, executing, optimizing portfolio as well as commercial arrangements.
• As such, you will work with market teams to develop and execute sales pipeline in B2B Travel in the region, introducing new B2B products and services as appropriate.
• Work closely with marketing, Global B2B Travel teams to evolve the Visa value proposition, products, and platforms globally to meet client/market needs in this ecosystem.
• Work closely with ecosystem players including airlines, hotels, aggregators, travel enablers, travel associations, GDS and others to ensure close engagement, update on trends, obtain industry feedback and opportunities.
• As the voice of the market and B2B Travel clients, you will need to provide feedback, develop product plans and collaborate with global B2B Travel product teams to prioritize and maintain product roadmap to drive future growth.
• Be a thought leader and champion of innovation by staying current with industry trends, representing Visa in B2B Travel forums and market activities as subject matter expert.

What a Senior Director for QR Center of Excellence does at Visa:

As a lead of this Center of Excellence you would be responsible for:

• Championing Visa's QR response to diverse market segments including: (a) mature markets where QR participation has reached a scale, (b) markets situated on the threshold of substantial expansion, and (c) nascent markets that are at the early stage of QR adoption. Across these markets you will establish a QR participation framework for domestic as well as cross border QR payments.
• Internally, you would engage with senior executives of Visa such as Product and Merchants Sales and Acquiring leadership teams, Corporate Strategy, Group Country Managers. Externally, it would be evangelist of Visa’s QR strategy with Issuers, Acquirers, BigTech, Fintech, Regulators, and industry forums.
• You will shape the go to market plan for identified countries. This would include determining the participation model for that country, setting the right transaction economics, identifying partners to achieve scale faster, building end user Customer Value Proposition (CVP) and, promotional plans to accelerate ecosystem built up.
• To execute against the plan, you will be supported by a cross functional team across strategy, product commercialization, marketing, acceptance, implementation services, and in-market colleagues. You will also have a lean team directly reporting to you, which will be expanded as the business scales.
• You and your team will be responsible for gathering product development requirement, prioritizing them and, publishing the global product roadmap for QR code. One key area of responsibility will be to determine the revenue streams adjacent to the QR payment transaction and, then recommend built or buy decision for those adjacent value-added services.   
• As a part of your on-going responsibilities, you will maintain a programmatic approach to the activities of center of excellence, report periodic progress and, raise key issues & risks to gather support within the organization.

Why this is important to Visa

The QR Center of Excellence is one of the key initiatives for maintaining Visa’s payment leadership position in everyday spend. It is established to increase Visa’s relevance in the mind of consumer and merchants, growth revenue & payment volumes and, for creating new revenue streams through VAS. This lead role will shape its direction and agenda.

Projects you will be a part of:

As a lead of QR center of excellence you will generate impact on multiple fronts.

• You will have the opportunity to drive innovation in the field of QR payments especially in identifying new value-added product capabilities.
• You will engage the senior leadership of Visa and shape the thinking of the organization on QR based payment.
• You will generate new revenue streams for Visa while delivering a better payment experience for merchants and consumer.  
• As this QR space is rapidly evolving its means you'll be constantly learning and problem solving, as a professional there will always be something new to explore and understand.