MENA Partnerships Manager

Job Description

Our ClientA globally recognised fintech that offers a cross-border payment gateway and payment aggregation facilityYour Responsibilities

• Contribute and deliver the company?s 12-country MENA growth and innovation strategy by acquiring channel partnerships with local card schemes, PSPs, FI?s, Telcos, Digital Wallets and other popular payment institutions.
• Grow the companies coverage, commercial leverage and product capability in target countries.
• Own, nurture and deepen new and existing public and private sector partnerships, including representing at key associations, governmental bodies, industry events and highly effective in influencing relevant regulatory authorities when required.
• Establish and maintain key C-suite relationships with local and international payment partners and industry stakeholders in target countries.
• Acquire and propagate strategic market trends, insights, intelligence across the target MENA country?s payment regulatory, user-behaviour and competitive landscape.
• Effectively partner with key departmental stakeholders, Country Managers and eloquently interpret, plan and deliver local business requirements, risks, opportunities and mitigation solutions
• She or He will be empowered to contribute to key commercial milestones required for MENA target countries / methods and be responsible for the method and channel contribution to the regional and global TPV targets.
• Contextualise and facilitate local market entry strategies to shape the operational playbook of some of the most well-known digital merchants in the world.
• Support local requirements where relevant such as office establishment, corporate governance matters, key-sponsorships and government-relations with support of regional and global management team.

Your Qualifications

• Willing and Able to travel 50% of the time.
• Minimum 5 years commercial or operational focused role experience working in MENA based parastatal payment entities, international digital payment company, acquiring, management consulting, disruptive software, e-wallets or nascent technology industry.
• Demonstrable track-record of cold-prospecting, strategic selling, partnerships closure and accurate pipeline C/W records.
• Demonstrable ability to hunt, negotiate, control deal-cycle exposure though contract navigation strategies and manage technical go-live.
• Bilingual English & Native Arabic, spoken, read and written, is mandatory and will be assessed.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the payments landscape and awareness of at least UAE, Kuwait or Egypt?s acquiring and issuing ecosystem required.
• Must be pro-networking and network-enabled in multiple MENA countries, and display demonstrable drive, entrepreneurial attitude and curiosity in learning and perfecting the growth cycle.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills required with visible professional presence in engaging with C-Suite and regulatory bodies
• Demonstrable track record in business development and strategic partnerships in the MENA region over multiple countries, regardless of current industry.
• Previous experience and successful engagements with public-private partnerships, payment companies, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco, KSA or UAE governmental bodies, Card schemes, Telco Wallets, Capital Market Authorities, key digital payment industry leaders highly preferred
• Previous exposure in working in a multi-matrix environment or multinational companies with remote support teams is highly beneficial
• Bachelors / Master?s Degree from international US / UK / Canadian / Australia / European institutions not mandatory, but strongly preferred.

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