The Sales Manager will enhance Mastercard's partnerships by developing strategies for new partners, managing existing relationships, and engaging in marketing activities to expand business opportunities.
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Sales Manager, Inbound Partnerships
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Job Description Summary
We are looking for a Manager to help Mastercard offer more value to existing and new customers through bringing in partnerships from select partners to be referred or resold by Mastercard alongside our wide solution set including identity, chargeback, cyber security, open finance, spend analytics, and loyalty solutions.
Role/Responsibilities: • Work with relevant product and business development teams to create strategy for desired partners within each priority solution area by analyzing customer needs and solution gaps• Identify priority target partners and connecting them for evaluation • Designing and streamlining the process to evaluate and admit new partners • Manage partner success and be responsible for their growth within Mastercard across our different areas • Engage in events and marketing activities to attract or promote new partners • Work with high-performing and high-potential partners to develop an annual joint business plan that defines strategies and activities to meet revenue goals; review and assess plan progress in partner-facing quarterly business reviews, making changes as appropriate • Provide partner and market feedback loop to internal functions (e.g. sales, product, marketing) on tools and programs
All about you: • Relevant industry experience in the payments and security space and familiarity with trends in fintech • Experience sourcing, qualifying, screening and forming business relationships with channel partners at the CXO level • Experience managing major customer / partner relationships to make things happen, grow the pie, and maintain an excellent level of transparency, trust, and collaboration • Strong personal network within the industry • Experience developing and managing joint business planning with partners • Who you are
o Strategic thinker who can quickly develop a point of view on market opportunities to focus on for each solution area and move to action
o Be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and build-it-as-we-go mentality (if you are looking for a standard toolkit and clear direction on what to do, this job isn't for you)
o Fan of working with people internally or externally. You don't shy away from approaching people you never met before to pitch what we do and you don't feel bad if you get ignored. It's part of the job.
o Commercial oriented-always looking for the next mega opportunity
o A great listener and collaborator who's always humble enough to keep learning from internal teams and external subject matter experts
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Sales Manager, Inbound Partnerships
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Job Description Summary
We are looking for a Manager to help Mastercard offer more value to existing and new customers through bringing in partnerships from select partners to be referred or resold by Mastercard alongside our wide solution set including identity, chargeback, cyber security, open finance, spend analytics, and loyalty solutions.
Role/Responsibilities: • Work with relevant product and business development teams to create strategy for desired partners within each priority solution area by analyzing customer needs and solution gaps• Identify priority target partners and connecting them for evaluation • Designing and streamlining the process to evaluate and admit new partners • Manage partner success and be responsible for their growth within Mastercard across our different areas • Engage in events and marketing activities to attract or promote new partners • Work with high-performing and high-potential partners to develop an annual joint business plan that defines strategies and activities to meet revenue goals; review and assess plan progress in partner-facing quarterly business reviews, making changes as appropriate • Provide partner and market feedback loop to internal functions (e.g. sales, product, marketing) on tools and programs
All about you: • Relevant industry experience in the payments and security space and familiarity with trends in fintech • Experience sourcing, qualifying, screening and forming business relationships with channel partners at the CXO level • Experience managing major customer / partner relationships to make things happen, grow the pie, and maintain an excellent level of transparency, trust, and collaboration • Strong personal network within the industry • Experience developing and managing joint business planning with partners • Who you are
o Strategic thinker who can quickly develop a point of view on market opportunities to focus on for each solution area and move to action
o Be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and build-it-as-we-go mentality (if you are looking for a standard toolkit and clear direction on what to do, this job isn't for you)
o Fan of working with people internally or externally. You don't shy away from approaching people you never met before to pitch what we do and you don't feel bad if you get ignored. It's part of the job.
o Commercial oriented-always looking for the next mega opportunity
o A great listener and collaborator who's always humble enough to keep learning from internal teams and external subject matter experts
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
Mastercard San Francisco, California, USA Office
123 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94105
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