
Director of Brazilian Markets
Job Description
Duties and responsibilities
- Sales:
- Achieve budget targets across all Key Performance Revenue Streams (KPRS), ensuring financial growth.
- Expand market share for US, outbound remittances for Brazil, leveraging strategic initiatives to drive business growth.
- Increase the number of high-quality, productive agencies, focusing on long term partnerships and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain the Brazil sales team by selectively recruiting top talent to ensure optimal performance and success.
- Visit prospective and active agencies for business development purposes.
- Explore viability of digital channel for Brazil market.
- Customer Service:
- Lead, mentor, and manage the Brazil Business Solutions Team, ensuring alignment with company goals and fostering culture of high performance and collaboration.
- Foster and work to maintain an entrepreneurial growth culture throughout the company and across all teams and work functions.
- Liaise closely with business users and build good rapport.
- Build cross-functional teams to guide and nourish sustainable, long-term growth.
- Build and oversee a high performing Brazil customer service team, ensuring exceptional service and customer satisfaction.
- Business Strategy:
- Evaluate potential solutions and make recommendations to resolve business problems.
- Identify and recommends new services.
- Propose and develop strategic partnerships.
- Help to shape the company’s long-term objectives for the Brazilian market.
- Advise on product development and distribution and promotion strategies.
- Pricing
- Monitor competitive pricing and exchange rates as needed for the Brazilian market.
- Collaborate in growing the volume of transactions and increase profitability.
- Participate in the development of promotional pricing programs for Brazil.
- Collaborate with any marketing projects.
- Manage and negotiate foreign exchange transactions/rates with Brazil payer partners, optimizing terms and ensuring cost effective solutions.
- Make sure you and your team read, acknowledge and comply with Viamericas’ Staff Information Security Policy.
- Make sure you and your team attend periodic Information Security training provided by Viamericas’.
- Report any event that might be an Information Security Incident: clicked on a malicious link, downloaded and opened a suspicious file, etc.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or equivalent
- Minimum 7 years of working experience in the International Money Transfer Industry.
- Proven experience in managing and leading teams, particularly in a cross-cultural context.
- In depth understanding of the Brazilian business environments, including financial regulations, markets dynamics, and customer behavior.
- Proven experience identifying, developing, and implementing effective business strategies.
- Experience with go-to-market strategies and execution of product launches.
- Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with technical teams and management.
- Team player with excellent collaboration skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Proficient in Office Productivity tools (MS Office, Salesforce a plus)
- Bi-Lingual English/Portuguese
Working Conditions
- This position will be 50% remote (from home) and 50% in the field. Frequent travel, up to 50 % (foreign and domestic) is required.