Partnerships Manager - Issuer Advocacy

Worldpay•Cincinnati, OH

20h•$99,500 - $148,025

About The Position

Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Senior Partnerships Manager - Issuer Advocacy to join our ever-evolving Partnership Management team and help shape the future of global commerce. The Financial Partnerships team manages Worldpay’s relationship with critical financial service providers. These providers include companies such as Sponsor Banks, Settlement Banks, PSPs, and other financial institutions who provide services to Worldpay as part of its global payment platforms and solutions. As a money movement business, Worldpay’s relationship with these financial service providers is extremely critical to our overall value proposition and ability to deliver services to clients at scale and without disruption. You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of card issuers that we seek to establish data sharing arrangements with. You will own the overall relationship with each partner and ensure that the strategies of Worldpay and the partner are aligned to drive mutual benefits of authorization rate improvements, reduced fraud, improved cardholder experience, and retained interchange for the issuer.

Requirements

A can-do attitude and excitement for building a new team within a leading payments company
Ability to influence and work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders across a variety of functions and geographies
Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to seamlessly move from thinking about high-level strategy to being “in the weeds” on critical items
A passion and interest in financial services
Great organizational skills, with the ability to segment and compartmentalize information, documents, and relationships across a number of different partners

Nice To Haves

Experience working in Financial Partnership-oriented roles
Experience working in the Payments and/or broader Financial Services industry
Experience being part of a new function/team within a larger organization

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day relationship with key card issuers
Prepare Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to share Worldpay authorization rate performance at the card issuers and any improvements derived from our data sharing arrangements
Lead negotiations on contracts when up for renewal and/or adding new products, services, geographies, etc.
Work with internal teams (e.g., network partnerships, legal, data privacy, implementations, authorization management performance, etc.) to share data with card issuers
Identify, evaluate, and build relationships with potential new card issuers