Role Description
The Principal Relationship Manager is responsible for sales, business development, and strategic client management for global payment enablers, such as payment facilitators, gateways, identity/security and tokenization providers. Key objectives include:
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Sustaining US acceptance
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Driving enabler network product certification and implementation
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Deepening enabler partnerships
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Enhancing the customer experience
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Facilitating relationship growth in key global regions
Responsibilities:
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Strategic Growth & Client Leadership:
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Establish and deepen executive relationships.
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Drive high-level strategy with clients to maximize acceptance while identifying new internal and external business opportunities.
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Product:
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Ensure the implementation of integral network products and services, and additional value-added products, where applicable, to enable ubiquitous downstream acceptance.
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Operational Excellence:
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Implement operational initiatives, ensure compliance with network change release processes and business practices.
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Verify that partners include all appropriate company products in their offerings.
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Marketing:
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Execute joint marketing initiatives to improve enabler and merchant awareness and increase transactions.
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Data Analysis:
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Leverage a strong business acumen to perform data analysis on enabler performance, industry trends, and transaction metrics.
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Translate complex data into compelling client presentations and actionable strategic roadmaps.
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Risk & Leadership:
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Manage and escalate risk or customer-impacting issues to management.
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Provide ongoing coaching and guidance to team members.
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Client Facing:
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This will require travel up to 25% domestically and globally for client & team meetings.
Qualifications
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High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification
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At least 5 years of experience in sales, relationship management, business development, strategy, operations or project management within financial services
Requirements
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Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or Finance (preferred)
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6+ years of experience in sales, relationship management, business development, strategy, operations or project management within financial services (preferred)
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3+ years of data analysis experience and experience creating client-facing presentations (preferred)
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Payments industry experience (preferred)
Benefits
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Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
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Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).