Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, EMEA

About AirwallexAirwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.We're looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships for EMEA (based in either Amsterdam or London), to join our team, and own our key strategic (commercial) relationships across the region, including with global partners. In this role, you will contribute to growing the company’s revenue and customer base, creating new and enhancing our existing products, and helping us build Airwallex's position in the payments space and brand awareness – all via partnerships with external companies.What You’ll Be Doing…Lead, develop, own, refine, and implement a partnerships strategy that aligns with and supports our overall business visionManage our most strategically important partnership opportunities in the region, both existing and new, and own executive-level relationshipsUnderstand the competitive landscape to ensure that Airwallex remains a ‘partner-of-choice’ and proactively present recommendations to executive managementExecute strategically important partnership initiatives, aligned with the regional commercial objectivesCoordinate due diligence processes with prospective partners and project-manage internal stakeholders through commercial, product and systems assessmentPosition yourself as an industry expert and establish relationships with potential partners and key decision-makers in the industryServe as a regional expert while keeping in mind our global footprintWhat You Bring…You are an exceptional communicator – able to connect with people at all levels, both internally and with external stakeholders, and communicate project expectations effectivelyYou thrive under pressure – and work well with constant change and the ambiguity of a startup environmentYou have strong negotiation skills – allowing you to navigate complex commercial discussions in ensuring long-term sustainable, highly mutually beneficial outcomes for Airwallex and its partnersYou have a strong network of partners, experts and executives you have worked with over the years, primarily in business development/partnerships rolesYou have a minimum of 4 years of experience in a partnership role and minimum 7 years relevant experience overallPayments industry experience preferredEqual opportunityAirwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

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