Sales Manager, Inbound Partnerships

Mastercard•Boston, MA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
Strategic thinker who can quickly develop a point of view on market opportunities to focus on for each solution area and move to action
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)
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.
Commercial oriented—always looking for the next mega opportunity
A great listener and collaborator who’s always humble enough to keep learning from internal teams and external subject matter experts

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

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement

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