Description
Inside IR35/£500 per day/remote/6 months
The Payments, Billing & Risk organization is passionate about defining innovative solutions that enable customers to safely buy and sell on our global Ecommerce client's platform. Our payments platform enables buyers and sellers around the globe to pay and be paid. Your role will be essential in deeply understanding the payments landscape, assessing trends and potential opportunities to expand capabilities through partnerships, manage partner initiatives, issues and growth opportunities.
Successful candidates will have proven track record in understanding payments technologies, applying solutions that will enable our core payment business and new opportunities for growth. You will be responsible for ongoing relationship management to support critical business goals, and creative solutions to enable new growth opportunities.
Responsibilities
Understanding partner capabilities in market and assessing fit/opportunity
Finding opportunities and driving growth through implementation of new solutions.
Owning the partner relationship product road map and delivery to business goals/business KPI's.
Establishing yourself internally and externally as the main point of contact for all matters related to partners under your management.
Being the voice of the partner internally, serving as the advocate for your partners cross functionally. Providing input into strategic opportunities for new products and improvements using partner capabilities.
Drive measurement and reviews of partner performance, ie Quarterly Business Reviews.
Build scalable structure and process to ensure consistency and quality in partner management activities that can be applied to additional and/or regional partnerships.
Identify and resolve issues, friction points to achieving goals and optimizing partnerships.
Key Characteristics
Holistic problem solver, able to anticipate end to end implications and requirements for partnership, including financial, technical, product, marketing and operational.
Ability to creatively lead through influence, drive opportunities, issue resolution, and process efficiency across sophisticated cross functional organizations.
Excellent communicator, comfortable presenting and gaining partner agreement at executive levels.
Successful track record juggling multiple, time-sensitive, strategically-important initiatives.
Experience Requirements
5+ years' experience in strategic partner management or business development, additional experience in product management, operations, or strategy a plus.
5+ years' experience in online payments, E-commerce or marketplaces industry specifically.
Exceptional analytical, communication and presentation skills.
Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Creative, inventive, highly organized with attention to detail.
BA/BS required, MBA a plus.
Desirable
Experience with payment products or partnerships like Apple Pay, Klarna, Amazon Pay, Google Wallet etc is desirable