Director - Channel Partnership Sales (Romanian speaking)

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

Director - Channel Partnership Sales (Romanian speaking)Services is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

Overview

The role is responsible for overseeing and supporting our Global and Regional Channel Partner strategy. The role will oversee the entire partner lifecycle; new partner recruitment, partner onboarding, partner revenue activation, and partner growth. The role will interact with and manage C-level relationships at some of the largest brands in the world and is expected to sustain a high performing culture. This role is ultimately responsible to meet and exceed regional revenue targets on strategy.

Role/Responsibilities:

• Meet assigned regional revenue targets through and with channel partners
• Define, drive, measure and adjust global tactics to optimize revenue impact based on alignment with Regional Leadership and key stakeholders
• Support teams to drive onboarding and activation of new partners to decrease time to revenue
• Engage internal Mastercard resources and key stakeholders in support of regional strategy execution (e.g. direct sales, Product Liaisons, marketing, compliance, legal, etc.)
• Manage channel pipeline, forecast reporting and track progress of all KPIs throughout partner lifecycle.
• Manage support teams to remain focused on high-potential partners only, developing joint business plan that defines strategies and activities to meet revenue goals
• Attend and drive key partner quarterly business reviews and governance meetings
• Provide partner and market feedback loop to internal functions (e.g. sales, product, marketing) to spur program efficiencies and development roadmaps

Background/Experience:

• Extensive relevant channel, partnerships or sales leadership experience with proven success in recruiting and developing new partners, ideally within relevant offering category and channel
• Experience with comfortability in managing, reporting and owning revenue targets
• Experience sourcing, qualifying, screening and forming business relationships with Partner stakeholders and executive level decision-makers
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing –in English and in Romanian
• Strong personal network within applicable industries
• Experience developing and managing joint business planning with partners
• Consulting Experience a plus
• Entrepreneurial mindset

Success Metrics:

• Revenue Targets – In year and Total contract values
• New partner recruitment
• Revenue producing partnerships and time to revenue
• Partner attrition rate
• Partner satisfaction
• Average cost of recruiting and activating new partners

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.